Senior Automation Engineer - Platform & AI Automation

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

What to do:

• Design, develop, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, operations, and lifecycle management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Python.

• Improve infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code practices, and help manage the DevOps toolchain, including CI/CD, artifact management, and secrets management.

• Contribute to the Internal Developer Platform strategy, architecture, and adoption, enabling self-service infrastructure and automation capabilities for engineering teams.

• Build AI-powered automation solutions, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines that combine internal and external data.

• Design reliable AI interactions using prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, and evaluation techniques, and integrate AI capabilities into enterprise workflows and platforms.

• Drive operational excellence through observability, SLO-based reliability practices, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

• Automate runbooks and operational procedures, support postmortems, contribute preventive improvements, and participate in an on-call rotation.

• Implement secure and responsible automation practices, including least privilege access, Vault-based secrets management, AI guardrails, policy-aligned controls, secure data handling, and compliance with enterprise standards.

• Mentor engineers, share best practices, and help establish engineering standards for automation, platform engineering, and AI-enabled solutions.