Automation Engineer

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The Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating automated solutions that streamline IT and business processes, reduce manual effort, and expand the organization's use of artificial intelligence and agentic workflows. This role bridges traditional scripting and infrastructure automation with modern AI-driven tooling, building systems that act, adapt, and scale with minimal human intervention.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in process automation, scripting, and workflow orchestration, and is actively exploring or applying AI and agentic technologies to solve real operational problems. This is a hands-on engineering role with high visibility and broad organizational impact. The ideal candidate brings specific experience working within highly regulated manufacturing industries. supporting data operations.
Key Responsibilities
Process & IT Automation

- Identify, design, and implement automation solutions for repetitive IT and business processes across the organization.

- Build and maintain automation scripts and workflows using Python and PowerShell, targeting infrastructure management, data movement, reporting, and operational tasks.

- Develop and manage RPA (robotic process automation) workflows for business process automation where applicable.

- Integrate automation solutions with enterprise platforms including Microsoft 365, Azure, and third-party SaaS applications via APIs and connectors.

- Document all automation solutions including design rationale, dependencies, failure modes, and runbooks.

AI & Agentic Workflow Development

- Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI-powered automation tools, agentic frameworks, and large language model integrations within the organization.

- Design and deploy agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or similar, enabling systems to reason, plan, and execute multi-step tasks autonomously.

- Integrate AI capabilities into existing operational workflows to reduce manual decision-making and accelerate throughput.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI automation opportunities and translate them into production-ready solutions.

- Evaluate and recommend AI tooling, platforms, and vendors in alignment with organizational security and compliance requirements.

- Stay current on emerging agentic AI patterns, model capabilities, and automation frameworks; bring new approaches to the team proactively.

Workflow Orchestration & Integration

- Design and manage end-to-end workflow orchestration using tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, or similar platforms.

- Build robust API integrations and event-driven automation pipelines across cloud and on-premises systems.

- Implement error handling, retry logic, alerting, and observability for all automated workflows to ensure r