Automation Engineer

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Role description:** Ensures that Tech services are highly automated, reliable and scalable. Develops tools and solutions to automate manual and/or inefficient processes. **Role accountabilities:** Design, implement, and maintain automation solutions that streamline operational processes, reduce manual workloads, minimize errors, and improve overall efficiency. - Continuously identify opportunities to optimize and automate operational processes across the service catalogue using AI-first methodologies. - Design and enhance CI/CD and automation solutions supporting application upgrades, backup and restore, solution teardown, auto-scaling, auto-healing, disaster recovery, failover, and monitoring. - Improve system availability, performance, latency, resilience, and reliability, defining and measuring appropriate Service Level Objectives (SLOs). - Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using technologies such as Terraform, PowerShell, and ARM. - Prioritize Microsoft Power Platform low-code solutions for automation, complemented by custom code where required. - Build and enhance Copilot Studio agents that leverage enterprise knowledge and invoke operational workflows, supporting AI-first, agent-based operations with human approvals and escalation paths. - Participate in key IT Service Management processes, including Incident, Problem, Release, Configuration, and Change Management, including CAB activities where relevant. - Provide third-level support for internally developed CI/CD and automation solutions, including troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. - Collaborate with product owners, service owners, technical teams, and external partners to define operational requirements, influence CI/CD architecture, manage service delivery, and ensure solutions align with strategic objectives and acceptable risk levels. **Qualifications & Experience:** - Experience in IT service management and IT operational and maintenance tasks and processes with good understanding on how some of these processes can be automated. - Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CICD, Terraform, PowerShell, MS Power Platform, Copilot Studio agent building, Azure Functions, Automation Accounts & Runbooks. - 2-3 years of experience in a similar role Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.