Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Senior AI & Automation Engineer, Azure / Terraform, NewcastleKEY POINTSSenior AI & Automation Engineer at an international software business behind the systems trade businesses run onUp to £70,000 baseFull time, permanent, hybrid with 3 days a week in the Newcastle officeTechnical lead in the AI and automation team supporting Cloud Operations across Azure and Oracle CloudBuild AI agents that do real operational work, not demosSit alongside part of the cloud team already based in NewcastlePaid on call rotaWHAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY BE BUILDINGOur client builds the software that wholesale, automotive, retail, rental and field service businesses run on. Think the system a garage uses to run its workshop and parts, or a rental firm uses to run its fleet. Tens of thousands of customers across 70 plus countries, decades of trading, profitable and privately backed.Their AI and automation team is a shared service for Cloud Operations. It builds the automation, Infrastructure as Code and AI agents that keep their online products running.You would set the technical direction for how they automate provisioning, cut manual toil and improve recovery times.WHY THE ROLE MATTERS HEREThe business is moving to AI first, automation first ways of working across its products and teams. This role leads that shift inside Cloud Operations.That means owning the patterns other engineers follow, mentoring the team, and building AI tooling that operations staff actually rely on day to day.THE ROLELead the design and delivery of automation, Infrastructure as Code and AI powered tooling across Azure and Oracle CloudBuild reusable automation frameworks, standards and engineering patternsDesign and build AI agents and LLM assisted tooling for Cloud OperationsBuild and improve CI/CD pipelinesEmbed security, identity and secrets management into everything by defaultImprove resilience, disaster recovery and recovery times through automationApply FinOps thinking to reduce cloud cost and wasteMentor engineers and lead code reviews, knowledge sharing and trainingESSENTIAL EXPERIENCESenior level experience in DevOps, Cloud, Platform or Automation EngineeringA strong Azure backgroundInfrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, though Bicep, Pulumi, Ansible or ARM all countDesigning and delivering CI/CD and automation solutionsHands on experience building AI or LLM assisted tooling or agentsSecurity, identity (Microsoft Entra / IAM) and secrets managementAn understanding of resilience and DR (RTO/RPO, failover)Mentoring engineers or leading technical workAble to work in the Newcastle office 3 days a weekNICE TO HAVEOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)FinOps and cloud cost optimisationISO 27001, SOC 2 or GDPR controlsContributing to engineering standards or reusable patternsSALARY AND BENEFITSUp to £70,000 basePaid on call rotaTechnical ownership and direction settingPermanent, full time, hybrid with 3 days a week in NewcastleTO APPLYPlease apply via this advert or email Daniel.Jones@searchability.com directly. For further information, call 0203 763 3888 or 07704 152 638.By applying, you consent to us processing and submitting your application (subject to suitability) for this vacancy only.