Automation

IT Automation Engineer

Location: Watford (Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office, 2 days working from home)
Salary: £45,000 - 51,000 + Car allowance £5K

About the Role

My client is seeking an experienced IT Automation Engineer to join their growing technology team. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled automation professional to play a key role in driving operational efficiency, technical innovation, and business transformation through automation technologies.

As an IT Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, documenting, and supporting automation solutions across cloud and on-premise environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to identify opportunities for automation, modernise legacy processes, and deliver scalable solutions using Microsoft Azure and related technologies.

This role offers the chance to contribute to the development of an "Automation as a Service" capability while ensuring all solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with best practice standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, analyse, prioritise, and implement service and business improvements through automation.
• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain automation solutions using modern DevOps methodologies and standards.
• Redevelop and migrate legacy automated processes into Microsoft Azure services, including Runbooks, Logic Apps, and Function Apps.
• Design and deliver integrations across multiple business systems to support end-to-end automation.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and risk management requirements.
• Embed security controls and governance standards throughout automation implementations.
• Participate in peer reviews, defect resolution, technical inspections, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain configuration management and orchestration tooling.
• Contribute to governance, standards, patterns, and shared documentation repositories.
• Provide support for incidents, problems, and change requests, including participation in out-of-hours and on-call support where required.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have a strong background in automation engineering, cloud technologies, and software development.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with:
  
  • PowerShell
  • C# (.NET Framework and .NET Core)
  • SQL
  • REST APIs
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end automation solutions across both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Strong experience with orchestration and configuration management tools (e.g. System Center Orchestrator).
• Extensive practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure automation technologies, including:
  
  • Azure Runbooks
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Function Apps
• Strong understanding and application of DevOps principles and practices.
• Experience working within ITIL or similar service management frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

Key Competencies

• Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
• Process improvement and operational efficiency
• Change management and user adoption
• Digital innovation and emerging technologies
• Benefits realisation and business value measurement
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Governance, compliance, and risk management