Contract: Bare Metal Platform Engineer andamp; Orchestration LeadStart Date: ASAP Duration: 6 months + Location: Yorkshire Rate: Negotiable (Deemed inside IR35 via Umbrella solution) Reference: 20233Role Summary:Major IT Consultancy is seeking a Bare Metal Platform Engineer to be responsible for the technical engineering, industrialisation, and operational life cycle of a clients global x86 estate. Unlike a traditional asset lead, this role focuses on abstracting hardware complexity through automation. You will be responsible for engineering the "connective tissue" between vendor-specific management tools (iDRAC, iLO, XCC) and the clients core orchestration engines. The goal is to deliver "Bare Metal as a Service" (BMaaS) by ensuring that Dell, HPE, and Lenovo hardware can be provisioned, managed, and observed as a unified, code-driven resource.Key Responsibilities:Unified Orchestration Engineering: Design and implement automation workflows that abstract vendor-specific tools (Lenovo XClarity, Dell OpenManage, HPE OneView) into a standardized management layer.Northbound Integration: Lead the integration of hardware management platforms with the Bank''s Ansible and Terraform playbooks to enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning.Observability andamp; Telemetry: Engineer the export of hardware health and performance metrics into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and Prometheus to ensure unified monitoring across the heterogeneous fleet.ITSM andamp; DDI Automation: Automate the ..... full job details .....