Automation Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Assess business processes for traditional, workflow, AI-assisted, or agentic automation opportunities.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, maintain, and enhance enterprise automation workflows, scripts, APIs, and tools.
- Support production UiPath, Power Automate, and Python automations, including failure resolution, root-cause analysis, scheduling, queue management, and minor enhancements.
- Build reusable automation frameworks, connectors, templates, libraries, integrations, and orchestration components.
- Develop AI-enabled workflows involving prompt templates, API integrations, retrieval workflows, validation, document processing, automated triage, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Support agentic automation patterns that coordinate tools, systems, data sources, and AI services under appropriate controls.
- Manage tickets, incidents, changes, deployment validation, releases, documentation, dashboards, and operational reporting.
- Collaborate with AI, data, engineering, IT, product, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture, security, privacy, responsible AI, governance, reliability, observability, and scalability standards.
- Train users and technical teams and communicate timelines, risks, dependencies, blockers, and business outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of experience in automation engineering, software engineering, or technology delivery roles.
- Hands-on enterprise-scale experience designing and implementing automation solutions, including UiPath and Power Automate.
- Proficiency with Python or comparable scripting and programming languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
- Understanding of APIs, web services, data formats, workflow orchestration, system integrations, and automation debugging.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, containerization, orchestration, monitoring, and version control.
- Knowledge of automation and engineering tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Jenkins, Ansible, Robot Framework, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
- Exposure to AI-enabled automation, LLM-based tools, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model APIs, evaluation, guardrails, document processing, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Experience collaborating with AI/ML, data engineering, product, security, and business teams.
- Master’s degree or certifications in automation engineering, cloud platforms, AI/ML, data engineering, software engineering, DevOps, or related areas are advantageous or desirable.
- Media and Entertainment, technology, data operations, or similar fast-paced industry experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, attention-to-detail, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Ability to support junior team members and manage multiple priorities and delivery timelines.
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About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****