Senior AI & Automation Engineer – Cloud, IaC & AI Agents

Emponics; North East; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Emponics in Newcastle region is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to lead automation initiatives across Azure and Oracle Cloud. The role focuses on designing large-scale automation, AI agents, and cloud engineering improvements to reduce manual effort and speed recovery.

You will mentor engineers, emphasize security and quality, and drive the adoption of an AI-first, automation-first approach across the organisation. Hybrid work with strong hands-on leadership is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on automation and cloud engineering experience.
• Proven Infra as Code design for Azure and OCI.
• Experience with AI/LLM-assisted tooling.
• Strong security, identity and secrets management knowledge.
• Mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI & Automation team across Azure and OCI environments.
• Design and deliver large-scale automation solutions and AI agents.
• Mentor engineers, promote security and quality, drive AI-first adoption.
• Shape engineering standards and resilience through automation.

Skills

Automation scripting

Infrastructure as Code

AI/LLM tooling

Security & IAM

Mentoring engineers

Cloud engineering

Azure

OCI

Terraform

Pulumi

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD pipelines

Bicep

Azure DevOps

OCI

Job description

Emponics in Newcastle region is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to lead automation initiatives across Azure and Oracle Cloud. The role focuses on designing large-scale automation, AI agents, and cloud engineering improvements to reduce manual effort and speed recovery.

You will mentor engineers, emphasize security and quality, and drive the adoption of an AI-first, automation-first approach across the organisation. Hybrid work with strong hands-on leadership is expected.