AWS Automation Engineer

CompanyCognizant

LocationLondon Area, United Kingdom

Posted At3/11/2026

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Description

AWS Automation Engineers with strong expertise in AWS cloud services, automation engineering, agent-based automation, and RPA skills to deliver end‑to‑end automations using AWS-native tooling, low-code platforms, and full-code engineering across enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop automation solutions using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, KMS, Secrets Manager.
Build intelligent document processing workflows leveraging AWS Textract, Comprehend, and extraction pipelines.
Develop autonomous agents using AWS Q, AgentCore, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen for reasoning, orchestration, and tool-use.
Implement GenAI automation patterns including RAG, summarisation, classification, and routing using AWS Bedrock.
Build monitoring and automation insight dashboards using AWS QuickSight

Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.

Build and integrate RPA automations using tools like UiPath, Power Automate, or Automation Anywhere, linking them with AWS APIs and event-driven architectures.

Write clean, modular Python code for APIs, microservices, automation logic, and integrations.

Use Terraform or AWS CDK for Infrastructure-as-Code, and adopt Git workflows, containerization, and automated testing.

Troubleshoot, optimize, and tune automation workloads for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Required Skills

Automation or AWS cloud development experience.
Strong hands-on expertise in AWS serverless & event-driven architecture.
Advanced Python development, boto3, REST APIs, JSON.
Experience with agentic automation (Q, AgentCore, LangChain/LangGraph/CrewAI).
Exposure to RPA tools (UiPath, Power Automate, AA).
Understanding of IAM, VPC networking, encryption, and cloud security.

AWS Certifications:

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (must have)

AWS Developer – Associate (preferred)

AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate (good to have)

AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (strong advantage)

Preferred Skills

Experience with AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch, RAG implementations, or vector DBs.
Experience designing automation at enterprise scale.
Familiarity with Power Platform and Copilot Studio.