Job Title: Infrastructure Automation Engineer Location: Swindon, UK Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35) Duration: 3-6 Months Work Arrangement: Twice in office per month Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join a leading financial institution in Swindon. You will be responsible for automating the creation, management, and deployment of golden OS images, primarily for Windows environments, and ensuring operational readiness and compliance across infrastructure platforms. Key Responsibilities: Automate the creation of golden OS images using Packer with pre-installed configurations, security hardening, and agents (Windows focus). Manage image lifecycle and deploy standardized images to platforms such as VMware vSphere. Provision infrastructure using Terraform and GitHub Actions across multiple environments. Implement Continuous Configuration Automation (CCA) using Ansible and Terraform to maintain desired state and reduce drift. Automate software delivery for infrastructure components (e.g., antivirus, middleware). Integrate automation with services like backup, monitoring, logging, antivirus, and CMDB. Ensure systems are operationally ready post-deployment and integrate with monitoring platforms. Define a...