About this role
Who We Are
Fulcrum Digital is a global
AI-first enterprise transformation company with over 25 years of experience. We
partner with enterprises across financial services, insurance, healthcare,
retail, manufacturing, higher education, and logistics to move from AI experimentation
to scalable business outcomes. Fulcrum Digital works with over 100 global
clients, including Fortune 500 enterprises, combining deep industry expertise
with capabilities in enterprise AI, digital engineering, cloud modernisation,
platform integration, and generative AI.
The Role
We are looking for a Platform
Engineer to own configuration management and automation across our Linux and
Windows estate, working hands-on with both Ansible and Chef. You will automate
provisioning, hardening, patching and deployments, integrate configuration
management into CI/CD pipelines, and help enforce compliance-as-code standards.
You will also support migrations between automation platforms and mentor other
engineers on automation best practice.
What You'll Do
• Design, write and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles and
collections for provisioning and configuration.
• Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes and
policies, and manage Chef Infra Server and Chef Automate.
• Automate OS builds, hardening, patching and application
deployments across Linux and Windows estates.
• Manage inventories, environments and secrets securely,
e.g. with Ansible Vault, HashiCorp Vault or Chef data bags.
• Run Ansible Automation Platform (AWX / Tower) job
templates, workflows and RBAC.
• Integrate configuration management into CI/CD pipelines
with automated testing (Molecule, Test Kitchen, InSpec).
• Enforce CIS benchmarks and compliance-as-code to
support PCI-DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.
• Provision cloud and on-premises infrastructure
alongside Terraform.
• Support migrations from Chef to Ansible, or between
platform versions, where programmes require it.
• Troubleshoot configuration drift, failed runs and
production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes.
• Write clear runbooks and documentation, and mentor
engineers on automation best practice.
Requirements
Requirements
• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or platform
engineering, with 3+ years hands-on with Ansible and Chef in production.
• Strong Ansible: playbooks, roles, Jinja2 templating,
dynamic inventories and custom modules.
• Strong Chef: cookbooks, Policyfiles, Berkshelf, Chef
Infra Server and knife.
• Ruby for Chef development, plus Python and Bash
scripting.
• Deep Linux administration (RHEL, Ubuntu); working
knowledge of Windows Server automation.
• Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure or
GCP) and with VMware or other on-premises virtualisation.
• Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Git workflows and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab
CI, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Infrastructure testing with Molecule, Test Kitchen or
InSpec.
• Sound security fundamentals: hardening, secrets
management, least privilege and patch management.
• Clear written and spoken English, and confidence
working with clients.