Automation Engineer

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investments company in the UK seeks an experienced Enterprise Automation Engineer to design and implement automation solutions. The candidate will manage the full lifecycle of automation use cases by collaborating with engineering teams while focusing on Infrastructure as Code and enhancing user experience. Competitive benefits offered, including 40 days' annual leave and a generous pension contribution. This role allows for blended working arrangements.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits including gym discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience developing, managing or supporting IT systems and platforms.
• Strong technical expertise in tooling, strategy, governance and best practices.
• Proficient in ITIL environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deliver and maintain automation solutions including IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in change and release management processes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliable and efficient automated infrastructures.

Skills

IT systems and platforms management

Cloud IT infrastructure

Tooling strategy and governance

Communication skills

Creative problem-solving

Ability to manage competing priorities

ITIL environments

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ARM

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses: interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs.

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

The Enterprise Automation team is part of the Digital Workplace function and plays a pivotal role in driving efficiency across the organisation. The team identifies, develops and implements automation use cases, with a focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cost optimisation, and enhancing the end user experience. It also supports and enables automation across surrounding teams, contributing to Aberdeen’s strategic goals through innovation and technical excellence.

About the Role

The Enterprise Automation Engineer will be responsible for the full lifecycle of automation use cases—from feasibility analysis and design to development, implementation and transition to support. The role requires a technically curious individual with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering innovative solutions using a wide range of tools and technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, deliver and maintain automation solutions including IaC, configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Participate in change and release management processes.
• Prototype new tools and technologies to enhance automation capabilities and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable and efficient automated infrastructures.
• Support non-functional requirements such as data protection, high availability, disaster recovery and monitoring.
• Work with security specialists to implement and test security controls.
• Optimise infrastructure integration across hybrid environments.
• Coach and mentor others to improve organisational outcomes through automation.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Significant experience developing, managing or supporting IT systems and platforms.
• Experience working with cloud IT infrastructure.
• Strong technical expertise in tooling, strategy, governance and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Technically curious, proactive and eager to learn.
• Creative problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work collaboratively with stakeholders.
• Proficient in ITIL environments.
• Experience with DSC/IaC and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our Benefits

There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance‑based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our Business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face‑to‑face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’s committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.