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Bare Metal Platform Engineer
£30,000 - 70,000
Networking People Limited
Humber Road, Yorkshire And The Humber
£30,000 - 70,000
Requirements
Must:
- Expert-level knowledge of Dell PowerEdge (iDRAC), HPE ProLiant (iLO), and Lenovo ThinkSystem (XCC) hardware architectures.
- Proficiency in hardware-level communication protocols, specifically Redfish API, IPMI, and SNMP for out-of-band management.
- Significant experience with Ansible (Roles/Collections) or Terraform for automating physical infrastructure deployments.
- Working knowledge of DHCP, DNS, and IPAM (DDI) services and how they interact with PXE/iPXE boot sequences.
- Strong Python or Bash skills for building custom integration wrappers and data transformation tools.
- Experience working in highly regulated or audit-driven environments, with a focus on automated evidence collection.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement automation workflows that abstract vendor-specific tools into a standardized management layer.
- Lead the integration of hardware management platforms with the Banks Ansible and Terraform playbooks to enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning.
- Engineer the export of hardware health and performance metrics into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and Prometheus for unified monitoring.
- Automate the end-to-end lifecycle from IP allocation (DDI/IPAM) to ServiceNow ticket generation for automated break-fix and warranty tracking.
- Define and programmatically enforce Golden Baselines for BIOS, RAID, and NIC settings to meet the Banks security control frameworks.
- Maintain immutable, automated audit trails for every hardware configuration change, replacing manual asset records with real-time reporting.
Description
We are a major IT Consultancy seeking a Bare Metal Platform Engineer to lead the engineering and operational lifecycle of our clients global x86 estate in Yorkshire. This 6-month contract role offers a unique opportunity to specialize in automating hardware management and providing Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS). We value innovation, and our team is dedicated to creating code-driven resource management solutions. Our work environment encourages collaboration and professional growth.
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