Sector: Security / Architecture

Location: Wiltshire

Type: Interim

Ref: BBBH71957_1789377108

Salary: Negotiable

Our Client is seeking an experienced IAC Engineer for a project on behalf of their customer. This is a role where you will spend two days a month on onsite and the remainder of time remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate the creation of golden OS images using Packer with pre-installed configurations, security hardening, and agents. Windows being our main target currently.


• Manage image lifecycle and deploy standardized images to platforms like VMware vSphere.


• Use Terraform and GitHub Actions to provision infrastructure across 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).


• Automate integration with services like backup, monitoring, logging, antivirus, and CMDB.


• Ensure systems are operationally ready post-deployment.


• Integrate with monitoring platforms and define automation triggers.

• Enforce compliance with CIS benchmarks, encryption policies, and other security standards using policy-as-code tools.

Skills Required:

1. IAC Tools:

- Packer

- GitHub / GitHub Actions

- Terraform

- Ansible

- VMware vSphere

- JFrog Artifactory

- CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault

2. Scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Java, or PowerShell.