Allianz SE

AI Platform Engineer_3194

Allianz SE
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11 days ago
Guildford, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based AI platform services, gateways, routing, caching, shared RAG components, and prompt and skills management.
  • Provide AI FinOps capabilities including quotas, usage metering, budgeting, cost controls, and policy enforcement.
  • Define and maintain platform standards across frameworks, SDKs, Spec Kits, and MCP interfaces.
  • Curate AI tools and manage their lifecycles from sandbox evaluation through standardization or retirement.
  • Implement observability, metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, cost and performance instrumentation, and incident response processes.
  • Optimize scalability, reliability, capacity, release automation, risk recovery, and cost across regions and environments.
  • Partner with AI Gateway and governance owners, hyperscalers, and AI frontier labs on regulated-industry features, terms of service, and roadmaps.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building and operating AI or developer platforms at production scale, ideally in regulated or large-scale environments.
  • Hands-on experience shipping platform capabilities used by multiple teams.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, MLOps/LLMOps stacks, vector databases or embedding stores, routing and caching layers, and identity or risk management.
  • Strong software engineering skills in languages such as Python, TypeScript, or Go.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and with reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices.
  • Experience implementing platform-level governance, compliance, safety guardrails, and AI FinOps.
  • Strong vendor evaluation, partnership, collaboration, and pragmatic product decision-making skills.
  • Fluency in English.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
  • Company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program, and multiple employee discounts, varying by location.
  • Career development, digital learning programs, and international career mobility.
  • Flexible working and health and wellbeing support, including healthcare and parental leave benefits.
  • Full-time, permanent employment.
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