Automation Engineer - Contract £750 per day (Inside IR35) Fully Remote - 6 Months (Must be able to start within 4 weeks) We're working with a Tier 1 global bank on a major automation project. This role sits within an engineering function that's driving the automation of their private cloud estate, replacing manual VM provisioning with scalable, testable infrastructure-as-code. You’ll be focused on building out end-to-end automation of ESXi and vCenter using Ansible and Python, with tight integration into CI/CD pipelines running via Jenkins. The aim is to streamline provisioning, standardise environments, and increase release velocity across business-critical applications. What You’ll Need: Strong Ansible experience – building and managing complex playbooks Advanced Python skills CI/CD with Jenkins – experience building pipelines and integrating automation tooling Experience automating VMware (ESXi, vCenter) Nice to have: Pytest Robot Framework HashiCorp Vault