Automation Engineer

**Responsibilities**

• Design and build workflow automations that streamline operational and business processes across Hickory's technology environment
• Develop and maintain integrations between systems via APIs, supporting automated data flow and process handoffs
• Build and maintain Azure-based cloud infrastructure and services supporting automation and workflow tooling
• Write and maintain scripts and small applications to extend automation capability where off-the-shelf tools fall short
• Apply version control and CI/CD practices to automation code, ensuring changes are tested, reviewed, and deployed safely
• Contribute to technical and solution design for new automation initiatives and process-improvement projects
• Apply AI tools and literacy to identify automation opportunities and accelerate development and troubleshooting
• Support monitoring/logging and QA/testing practices across automated workflows, escalating issues promptly
• Partner with operational and business stakeholders to identify manual, error-prone, or repetitive processes worth automating

**Requirements**

• 3 to 5 years relevant experience
• Experienced with Azure or another major cloud platform, comfortable operating and troubleshooting cloud-hosted services
• Hands-on experience building workflow automations (e.g. via Workato, Power Platform, or comparable tooling)
• Solid understanding of APIs and system-integration patterns
• Programming or scripting proficiency (e.g. Python, JavaScript, C#) sufficient to build and extend automations
• Practical experience with version control (e.g. Git) and CI/CD pipelines
• Working AI literacy - comfortable using AI-assisted tools to support development and process-improvement work
• Experience contributing to technical or solution design for automation or process-improvement initiatives
• Exposure to monitoring/logging, QA/testing, or manufacturing/warehousing/operational systems is an advantage, not a requirement - candidates from other operational or automation environments are equally welcome
• A practical, hands-on problem solver with a process-improvement mindset, who communicates well and can work independently

For this role, we're looking for a similar technical profile to the Platform & Integration Engineer, **with a stronger focus on automation, workflows and operational processes.**

**Good to have**

• Azure / cloud
• Workflow automation
• APIs and system integration
• Programming / scripting
• Version control and CI/CD
• AI literacy
• Technical design / solution design
• Workato
• Power Platform
• Monitoring / logging
• QA / testing
• Manufacturing, warehousing or other operational systems / environments

**Soft skills**

• Practical and hands on
• Strong problem solver
• Process improvement mindset
• Good communicator
• Self starter who can work independently