Senior AI Automation Engineer (CI/CD, DevOps)

Launch Recruitment Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Launch Recruitment Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to lead enterprise‑scale automation, blending hands‑on delivery with technical direction across DevOps, CI/CD and AI‑driven automation. You will help identify opportunities to scale intelligent automation across engineering teams.

Requirements include 10+ years in Automation Engineering/DevOps, strong CI/CD architecture, API integrations, and hands‑on experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or Appium.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across Automation Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering with proven technical direction across enterprise environments.
• Strong background designing scalable automation solutions, CI/CD capabilities and technical standards across large tech environments.
• Experience applying AI, Agentic AI and intelligent automation to testing, development, deployment or release processes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD architecture, DevOps, pipeline automation, release orchestration and enterprise API integrations.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript capabilities, with experience across automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium and/or Cypress.
• Experience across Azure, GCP and/or AWS, with exposure to ServiceNow Change Management and enterprise release tooling.
• Proven ability to improve automation solutions and drive adoption across engineering teams.
• Strong leadership and mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on engineering role focused on implementing and scaling intelligent automation, AI agents, CI/CD and release automation within engineering squads.

Skills

Automation Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

TypeScript

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Azure

AWS

GCP

ServiceNow

API Integrations

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Harness

Job description

Launch Recruitment Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to lead enterprise‑scale automation, blending hands‑on delivery with technical direction across DevOps, CI/CD and AI‑driven automation. You will help identify opportunities to scale intelligent automation across engineering teams.

Requirements include 10+ years in Automation Engineering/DevOps, strong CI/CD architecture, API integrations, and hands‑on experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or Appium.