diff --git a/substrate/.gitlab-ci.yml b/substrate/.gitlab-ci.yml
index bcedb0c6e1..ff4172aa5e 100644
--- a/substrate/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/substrate/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ stages:
   - test
   - build
   - publish
-  - deploy
+  - kubernetes
+  - flaming-fir
 
 image:                             parity/rust-builder:latest
 
@@ -264,7 +265,7 @@ publish-s3-doc:
         --human-readable --summarize
 
 .deploy-template:                  &deploy
-  stage:                           deploy
+  stage:                           kubernetes 
   when:                            manual
   retry:                           1
   image:                           parity/kubetools:latest
@@ -332,7 +333,7 @@ deploy-ue1-tag:
     name: parity-prod-ue1
 
 .validator-deploy: &validator-deploy
-  stage: publish
+  stage: flaming-fir
   dependencies:
     - build-linux-release
   image: parity/azure-ansible:v1
@@ -344,10 +345,16 @@ deploy-ue1-tag:
 validator1:
   <<: *validator-deploy
   script:
-    - ansible-playbook -i scripts/ansible/inventory.ini -u gitlab scripts/ansible/alexander.yml -l validator1
-
+    - ./scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh flamingfir-validator1
 validator2:
   <<: *validator-deploy
   script:
-    - ansible-playbook -i scripts/ansible/inventory.ini -u gitlab scripts/ansible/alexander.yml -l validator2
-
+    - ./scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh flamingfir-validator2
+validator3:
+  <<: *validator-deploy
+  script:
+    - ./scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh flamingfir-validator3
+validator4:
+  <<: *validator-deploy
+  script:
+    - ./scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh flamingfir-validator4
diff --git a/substrate/scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh b/substrate/scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ffd3cab9d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/substrate/scripts/flamingfir-deploy.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+RETRY_COUNT=10
+RETRY_ATTEMPT=0
+SLEEP_TIME=15
+TARGET_HOST="$1"
+COMMIT=$(cat artifacts/VERSION)
+DOWNLOAD_URL="https://releases.parity.io/substrate/x86_64-debian:stretch/${COMMIT}/substrate"
+POST_DATA='{"extra_vars":{"artifact_path":"'${DOWNLOAD_URL}'","target_host":"'${TARGET_HOST}'"}}'
+
+JOB_ID=$(wget -O - --header "Authorization: Bearer ${AWX_TOKEN}" --header "Content-type: application/json" --post-data "${POST_DATA}" https://ansible-awx.parity.io/api/v2/job_templates/32/launch/ | jq .job)
+
+echo "Launched job: $JOB_ID"
+
+
+while [ ${RETRY_ATTEMPT} -le ${RETRY_COUNT} ] ; do 
+	export RETRY_RESULT=$(wget -O - --header "Authorization: Bearer ${AWX_TOKEN}"  https://ansible-awx.parity.io/api/v2/jobs/${JOB_ID}/ | jq .status)
+	RETRY_ATTEMPT=$(( $RETRY_ATTEMPT +1 ))
+	sleep $SLEEP_TIME 
+	if [ $(echo $RETRY_RESULT | egrep  -e successful -e failed) ] ; then
+            break 
+        fi
+done
+
+AWX_OUTPUT=$(wget -O - --header "Authorization: Bearer ${AWX_TOKEN}"  https://ansible-awx.parity.io/api/v2/jobs/${JOB_ID}/stdout?format=txt_download)
+
+echo "AWX job log:"
+echo "${AWX_OUTPUT}"
+
+
+JOB_STATUS=$(wget -O - --header "Authorization: Bearer ${AWX_TOKEN}"  https://ansible-awx.parity.io/api/v2/jobs/${JOB_ID}/ | jq .status )
+
+echo "==================================="
+echo -e "Ansible AWX Remote Job: ${JOB_ID} \x1B[31mStatus: ${JOB_STATUS}\x1B[0m"
+echo "==================================="