Senior Automation Engineer

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you're leading the design, development, and optimization of automated systems — whether that's industrial automation (PLCs, SCADA, robotics), IT automation (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code), or test automation (frameworks, pipelines). At the senior level, you're making architecture decisions, setting standards, mentoring junior engineers, and driving automation strategy.

Your day involves designing automation solutions, reviewing code or configurations, troubleshooting complex system issues, meeting with stakeholders to scope new automation projects, and guiding team technical direction. You're expected to see the big picture — understanding which processes to automate first, how automated systems interact, and where automation creates risk as well as efficiency.

The senior challenge is balancing automation ambition with practical reliability. You can automate almost anything, but should you? Every automated process that fails creates a production or operational issue. Your judgment about what to automate, how to make it resilient, and when manual intervention is actually better is what makes you senior.