Senior AI & Cloud Automation Engineer — Hybrid

Searchability; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Searchability in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior AI and Automation Engineer to join its Cloud Operations team. The role blends hands-on engineering with shaping automation strategy, focusing on Terraform, Azure, IaC and AI-driven automation to drive scalable infrastructure.

You will design and deliver automation across a complex cloud environment, mentor engineers, and work in a hybrid setup with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or Infrastructure Automation.
• Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience scripting and developing automation using Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience automating cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployments or migrations.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools, LLMs or AI automation technologies.
• Understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, and secrets management.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to design and implement technical solutions independently.
• Experience mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement infrastructure automation solutions across cloud environments.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions, primarily using Terraform.
• Support cloud migration and modernisation initiatives, automating provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency through automation.
• Design, develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines.
• Explore and implement AI-powered automation, including LLM-assisted tooling and AI agents.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks, engineering standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with Cloud Operations, DevOps and infrastructure teams to introduce more efficient ways of working.
• Embed security, identity management and secrets management into automation solutions.
• Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge and help drive an automation-first engineering culture.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure Automation

Terraform

IaC

Microsoft Azure

Python

PowerShell

Bash

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud security

Identity and access management

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Job description

Searchability in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior AI and Automation Engineer to join its Cloud Operations team. The role blends hands-on engineering with shaping automation strategy, focusing on Terraform, Azure, IaC and AI-driven automation to drive scalable infrastructure.

You will design and deliver automation across a complex cloud environment, mentor engineers, and work in a hybrid setup with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.