Senior Automation Engineers
Launch Recruitment Pty Ltd
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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
Tools
Job description
Work with a leading organisation as an experienced Senior Automation Engineer within a large-scale technology environment. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise-wide automation solutions, combining hands‑on engineering with technical direction across DevOps, CI/CD and AI-driven automation. You'll help identify opportunities to introduce AI agents and intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle and scale solutions across engineering teams.
Senior Automation Engineer Position:
A senior, enterprise-level engineering role combining hands‑on delivery with technical direction, focused on intelligent automation, AI agents, DevOps and the evolution of testing and release automation across the organisation.
What are we looking for?
- 10+ years' experience across Automation Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering, with proven experience providing technical direction across enterprise environments
- Strong background designing and evolving scalable automation solutions, CI/CD capabilities and technical standards across large technology environments
- Experience applying AI, Agentic AI and intelligent automation to testing, software 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 existing automation solutions, identify opportunities to automate across the SDLC and drive adoption across multiple engineering teams
- Strong technical leadership, solution design and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence senior engineering and technology stakeholders
A hands‑on engineering role focused on implementing and scaling intelligent automation, AI agents, CI/CD and release automation solutions directly within engineering squads.
What are we looking for?
- 8+ years' hands‑on experience across Automation Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering
- Strong CI/CD and DevOps experience, particularly with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness or similar tools
- Practical experience applying AI, Agentic AI or AI agents to testing, software development, deployment or automation
- Hands‑on experience with API integrations, REST/GraphQL and automation frameworks, with exposure to Playwright, Selenium, Cypress and/or Appium
- Experience with ServiceNow Change Management and integrating release processes with CI/CD and enterprise tooling
- Strong understanding of engineering environments and experience working directly with squads to onboard automation solutions, improve pipelines and identify opportunities to automate across the SDLC
- Initial 6-month contracts with potential for extension
- ASAP start required (2 week notice max)
- Hybrid working environment - 2/3 days in office in Sydney, no other locations considered.
- Must have full working rights in Australia
Work with a leading organisation as an experienced Senior Automation Engineer within a large-scale technology environment. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise-wide automation solutions, combining hands‑on engineering with technical direction across DevOps, CI/CD and AI-driven automation. You'll help identify opportunities to introduce AI agents and intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle and scale solutions across engineering teams.
Senior Automation Engineer Position:
A senior, enterprise-level engineering role combining hands‑on delivery with technical direction, focused on intelligent automation, AI agents, DevOps and the evolution of testing and release automation across the organisation.
What are we looking for?
- 10+ years' experience across Automation Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering, with proven experience providing technical direction across enterprise environments
- Strong background designing and evolving scalable automation solutions, CI/CD capabilities and technical standards across large technology environments
- Experience applying AI, Agentic AI and intelligent automation to testing, software development, deployment or release processesStrong 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 existing automation solutions, identify opportunities to automate across the SDLC and drive adoption across multiple engineering teams
- Strong technical leadership, solution design and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence senior engineering and technology stakeholders
A hands‑on engineering role focused on implementing and scaling intelligent automation, AI agents, CI/CD and release automation solutions directly within engineering squads.
What are we looking for?
- 8+ years' hands‑on experience across Automation Engineering, DevOps or Software Engineering
- Strong CI/CD and DevOps experience, particularly with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness or similar tools
- Strong Python skills, with TypeScript/JavaScript experience and the ability to build automation solutions, tooling and intelligent workflows
- Practical experience applying AI, Agentic AI or AI agents to testing, software development, deployment or automation
- Hands‑on experience with API integrations, REST/GraphQL and automation frameworks, with exposure to Playwright, Selenium, Cypress and/or Appium
- Experience with ServiceNow Change Management and integrating release processes with CI/CD and enterprise tooling
- Strong understanding of engineering environments and experience working directly with squads to onboard automation solutions, improve pipelines and identify opportunities to automate across the SDLC
- Initial 6-month contracts with potential for extension
- ASAP start required (2 week notice max)
- Hybrid working environment - 2/3 days in office in Sydney, no other locations considered.
- Must have full working rights in Australia
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