Senior Automation Engineer – London

Oxford Knight; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Knight is hiring a Senior Automation Engineer in London to design scalable automation frameworks on AWS Bedrock and drive end-to-end delivery across Ops, Compliance and Risk.

You will decompose Jira workflows into microservices, integrate LLM/GenAI solutions, and mentor engineers while advancing security and CI/CD hygiene.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, Python preferred.
• 3+ years designing distributed, event-driven AWS systems.
• Proven experience with LLM/GenAI integration or tuning.
• Knowledge of Jira data model, webhooks, REST/GraphQL.
• Security for SaaS integrations: OAuth, encryption, secrets rotation.
• Familiar with SOC 2, governance in regulated environments.
• Observability stacks and CI/CD pipelines experience.
• KYC/AML automation or onboarding flows knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic automation framework in Python on AWS Bedrock.
• Decompose Jira workflows into microservices and LLM agents.
• Own end-to-end delivery of automation across Ops, Compliance, Risk.
• Build secure, high-performance integrations with core internal systems.
• Develop prompt strategies, retrieval augmentation, and guard rails for Bedrock models.
• Measure latency, cost, and output quality of agent systems.
• Mentor junior engineers; enforce coding standards and CI/CD hygiene.

Skills

Python

AWS Bedrock

LLM/GenAI

Jira API

Security SaaS

Observability

CI/CD

KYC AML

DDD

Terraform

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class software engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic automation framework in Python on AWS Bedrock
• Decompose Jira workflows into microservices and LLM agents
• Own end-to-end delivery of automation solutions across the business, e.g. Operations, Compliance, Risk
• Build secure, high-performance integrations with core internal systems
• Develop prompt strategies, retrieval augmentation, and guard-rail policies for Bedrock models
• Measure and tune agent output quality, latency, and cost
• Mentor junior engineers; drive coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD hygiene

Skills & Experience Required

• 8+ years’ experience of professional software engineering (Python preferred) with at least 3 years’ designing distributed, event-driven systems in AWS
• Proven production experience integrating or fine-tuning LLM/GenAI solutions (OpenAI, Bedrock, or similar)
• Deep knowledge of Jira data model, webhooks, and REST/GraphQL APIs
• Strong grasp of security for SaaS integrations: OAuth, secret rotation, data-in-transit/at-rest encryption
• Familiarity with financial or regulated environments and related control frameworks, e.g. SOC 2, model governance
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Grafana, Datadog) and CI/CD pipelines
• Prior work on KYC / AML automation, sanctions screening, or client onboarding flows
• Experience with event sourcing, domain-driven design, or service-based architecture
• Familiarity with LangChain, Haystack, or other agent frameworks; Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK / Terraform) and/or container orchestration with Kubernetes

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