Senior AI-Driven Cloud Automation Engineer

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

Job summary

Searchability is recruiting a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to join its Cloud Operations team in a hybrid role. The position is based in the UK with locations including Newcastle, Nottingham, Bromsgrove or Hungerford.

The salary is £70,000 per year, with a hybrid pattern (3 days in the office, 2 days at home) and permanent, full-time status. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, cloud transformation and AI-powered automation, leveraging Terraform, IaC and Microsoft Azure.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash for automation.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience automating cloud provisioning, deployments or migrations.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and AI automation.
• Understanding cloud security, IAM and secrets management.

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

Terraform

IaC

Azure

Python

CI/CD

Cloud Security

Job description

Searchability is recruiting a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to join its Cloud Operations team in a hybrid role. The position is based in the UK with locations including Newcastle, Nottingham, Bromsgrove or Hungerford.

The salary is £70,000 per year, with a hybrid pattern (3 days in the office, 2 days at home) and permanent, full-time status. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, cloud transformation and AI-powered automation, leveraging Terraform, IaC and Microsoft Azure.