Senior Systems & Automation Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
This is a hands-on engineering role combining strong systems administration experience with a heavy focus on automation and continuous improvement. We want someone whose natural response to a repetitive process is “why are we still doing this manually, can I automate it?”
This role will be working across the IT Platforms & Security environment to build, automate, and improve the systems and processes used by our IT teams. The goal is simple: reduce manual effort, improvereliability,and allow our technology environment to operateat scale.
Key responsibilities
Design, build, and maintainautomation for IT operational processes.
Identify repetitive, manual or error-prone tasks and engineer better ways of doing them.
Automate processes such as user onboarding/offboarding, access management, licensing, device provisioning, software deployment, compliance checks, and reporting.
Build PowerShell and Python scripts, workflows and tools that can be used by the wider IT team.
Integrate platforms using REST APIs, webhooks, and other integration methods to remove manual hand-offs between systems.
Engineer and administer Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Windowsand other enterprise platforms.
Automate monitoring, health checks, alert enrichmentand remediation where appropriate.
Investigate recurring incidents and engineer permanent solutions rather than repeatedly applying the same fix.
Develop internal tools and utilities that make IT operations faster and easier.
Ensure automation is production-ready with appropriate testing, error handling, logging, securityand rollback mechanisms.
Maintain automation and infrastructure code using Git and proper version control.
Work across Endpoint, Network, and Security teams to identifyopportunities for automation and improvement.
Qualifications
Strong experience in a Systems Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator, Automation Engineeror similar role.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and Windows environments.
Strong PowerShell skills and experience with Python.
Experience building integrations using REST APIs, JSON, webhooks and authentication methods such as OAuth.
Good understanding of Active Directory, identity, networking, DNS, authentication,and enterprise infrastructure.
Experience with Git and modern development/version-control practices.
Experience with automation platforms or orchestration tools would be highly regarded.
Ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems across multiple systems.
Strong understanding of security principles, particularly around credentials, privileged access, secrets,and automation.
Ability to take an idea from “we should automate this” through design, development, testingand production deployment.
Perks and benefits
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