Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer in Farnborough (GU14) | Sanderson Recruitment My career My jobs MA My account Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers Network Automation Engineer VIQU IT Recruitment City of London, London £550 - 650 per day + Inside IR35 1 day ago Automation Engineers HP4 Recruitment Ltd Acton Green, West London (W3) From £500 to £550 per day 1 week ago Staff Software Engineer (ML QA) Graphcore London 1 day ago Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Athena Core (Commercial & Investment Bank) Hackajob Ltd St James, South West London (SW1) Competitive 3 days ago Senior AI Automation Engineer £100,000-£120,000 Method-Resourcing London Negotiable 2 weeks ago Senior Test Engineer Hackajob Ltd Bownham, Gloucester (GL1) Competitive 3 days ago AWS Engineering Lead Interact Consulting Limited South West London (SW4), SW4 90-100k 2 weeks ago Test Automation Engineer Hackajob Ltd Belfast (BT1) Competitive 3 days ago Protection & Control Design Engineer First Technical Recruitment London Inside IR35 1 day ago Senior Platform Engineer Motorola Solutions Uk Ltd Uxbridge, London 20 hours ago NEW Automation Engineer Sanderson Recruitment Farnborough (GU14) Temporary Contract; On-site Published: 3 days ago £500 - £550 per day + Inside IR-35 Apply Save Automation Engineer Sanderson Recruitment Apply Automation Engineer £550/day Inside IR35 | Farnborough | 5 Days Onsite | Active SC Clearance Required We're supporting a growing automation function delivering work within a highly secure, air-gapped environment. Due to increased demand across several programmes, we're looking for a hands-on Automation Engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges through automation and scripting. This is not a cloud-native DevOps role. We're looking for a practical infrastructure automation specialist who can build, improve and maintain automation tooling across complex on-premise environments. The Role You'll join a team responsible for designing and delivering automation solutions that improve infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and operational efficiency across secure environments. Key responsibilities will include: Designing, building and maintaining automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning and configuration. Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management and best practice patterns. Creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, roles and automation workflows. Developing automation tooling and scripts using Python, Bash and PowerShell. Integrating automation solutions with CI/CD and version control processes. Improving deployment consistency, operational efficiency and environment standardisation. Troubleshooting and optimising existing automation tooling and workflows. Producing technical documentation and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. Required Skills & Experience Strong infrastructure automation background. Excellent Ansible experience (this is the highest priority skill area). Terraform expertise. Scripting experience with Python, Bash and/or PowerShell. Experience delivering automation in secure or restricted environments. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently and adapt to changing priorities. Desirable Experience Git / version control experience. GitLab experience. Rundeck experience. Previous experience working within air-gapped or offline environments. Additional Information Farnborough based. 5 days per week onsite required due to the nature of the environment. Active SC clearance required. Sole British Nationals only. Candidates must be comfortable working without AI-assisted tooling, as the project operates within a secure environment where AI tools cannot be used Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you. 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