Infrastructure Automation Engineer in Cambridge

As an Infrastructure Automation Engineer, you will help design, develop, build and maintain automation solutions that keep our engineering facing large-scale infrastructure running optimally. We are a forward-looking team with early access to emerging technologies, crafting the tools and workflows later embraced across the organisation. Our team is hands-on and in this role will spend most of your time writing automation code, improving deployment pipelines, and reducing toil across cloud and on-premises environments. We believe in automating everything to deliver measurable improvements, stitching sophisticated systems together with a combination of AI, APIs and pure technical wizardry.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code to provision and run services across hybrid environments, covering end-to-end operational workflows.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, ensure new infrastructure is observable from day one, and manage secrets through enterprise-grade secrets management solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools - from code generation and refactoring to agentic AI workflows.
• Mentor and upskill junior team members, leading workstreams and smaller teams across a set of ever-evolving solutions allowing the company to scale dynamically to meet all of our current and future engineering needs.

Required Skills and Experience

• Hands-on proficiency in Terraform, Ansible & AWS, backed by strong programming skills and a genuine curiosity about turning large-scale traditional infrastructure into clean, automated systems.
• A builder's perspective for hybrid architectures - comfortable designing automation across on-premises physical, virtual, cloud, containerised, and serverless environments.
• Excellent problem-solver and communicator with a consistent track record of bringing people together and helping diverse teams deliver outstanding results.
• If you think restarting a service or contacting a vendor is true support, this role probably isn't for you.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience

• You have adapted to the dynamic changes in IT, from sysadmin to SRE or Software development and have supported a wide range of technologies, or been a specialist in one.
• Valid certifications that demonstrate expertise in both architecture and automation!
• Active technical presence in the community - through blogs, open-source work, or conference talks.

In Return

We offer exciting and interesting work in a diverse team. The company's growth trajectory will ensure career progression and the opportunity to have a significant impact on our success!

Accommodations at the company

At the company, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email hr@unitedstatesdigital.space. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation.

Hybrid Working at the company

The company’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility.

Equal Opportunities at the company

The company is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Salary Range £97,300 * £131,700 per year