Lead AI & Cloud Automation Engineer (Azure IaC)

Searchability; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Searchability in Nottingham is hiring a Senior AI and Automation Engineer to lead AI-driven automation for cloud operations. You will design and implement infrastructure as code and AI agents, primarily on Azure OpenAI, with a focus on scalable automation and production-grade delivery.

You will own IaC standards across Azure (Terraform preferred) and shape CI/CD pipelines while mentoring engineers and aligning with Cloud Operations to reduce manual work at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure background required.
• Hands-on IaC you have written yourself (Terraform preferred).
• CI/CD design and delivery experience (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Experience delivering AI/automation projects (LLM tooling, agents).
• Leadership/mentoring of engineers in a technical setting.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents and LLM-powered automation for cloud operations (Azure OpenAI and similar).
• Own infrastructure as code standards across Azure, with Terraform preferred.
• Design and deliver CI/CD pipelines.
• Set technical direction for the team and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with Cloud Ops to remove manual work at scale.

Skills

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CI/CD

LLM tooling

Azure OpenAI

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Pulumi

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Searchability in Nottingham is hiring a Senior AI and Automation Engineer to lead AI-driven automation for cloud operations. You will design and implement infrastructure as code and AI agents, primarily on Azure OpenAI, with a focus on scalable automation and production-grade delivery.

You will own IaC standards across Azure (Terraform preferred) and shape CI/CD pipelines while mentoring engineers and aligning with Cloud Operations to reduce manual work at scale.