DevOps Engineer – Data Protection Automation (RedHat Ansible)

Contract Role Title: DevOps Engineer – Data Protection Automation

Contract Location: London / Sheffield / Birmingham (On-site with some Hybrid flexibility)

Contract Start Date: ASAP / February 2026

Contract End Date: December 2026

 

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work with Deloitte's Tier 1 global investment banking clients on a large-scale data and regulatory reporting transformation.  

We are supporting a large, complex enterprise programme focused on data protection, privacy, storage and automation. This role is a hands-on DevOps engineering position, working within a highly technical environment that supports automated backup, archival, retrieval and reporting solutions in line with regulatory and data privacy requirements.

This is an individual contributor and hands-on role which sits within a data engineering and automation team responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing data protection automation platforms, integrating with internal systems and third-party APIs. The environment is Agile, highly collaborative, and technology-led (circa 90% technical, 10% domain).

Financial services experience is not required — strong DevOps and automation capability is the priority.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and support automation for data protection services (including backup and restore platforms)

• Build and maintain automation solutions aligned with data privacy and regulatory requirements

• Design, develop, test and support reporting and monitoring capabilities for automation platforms

• Provide engineering support for data protection automation services in use across the organisation

• Work with REST APIs and third-party API services to integrate tooling and functionality

• Undertake product evaluations, feature enhancements and version upgrades

• Produce clear, structured and comprehensive documentation for all automation delivered

• Collaborate effectively within Agile delivery teams using Scrum methodologies

 

Required skills and experience:

• Strong hands-on DevOps engineering experience

• Extensive experience with configuration management and orchestration using RedHat Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform

• Expert-level use of GitHub and source control management tooling

• Strong experience working in Agile / Scrum environments

• Proven use of Jira and Confluence for delivery and documentation

• Strong scripting experience in Python and/or Bash (engineering focus, not application development)

• Experience designing, developing and testing REST API services

• Experience integrating and consuming third-party API services

• Strong individual contributor, comfortable working hands-on

• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills

• Comfortable working across complex technical environments

 

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience converting Puppet code into Ansible or other platforms

• Data Protection / Backup & Restore experience

• On-prem infrastructure exposure

• Experience with NetBackup (Cohesity)

• Experience with Commvault