AI Engineer - Microsoft Foundry (Contract)
AND Digital10 hours ago
Southampton, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and design scalable, resilient Azure AI Foundry environments aligned with enterprise cloud architecture and Azure Landing Zone principles.
- Integrate Azure AI Foundry with Azure OpenAI Service, model catalogues, prompt flows, AI Search, vector databases, and custom AI tooling.
- Define reusable architecture patterns, platform standards, deployment patterns, observability, and operational management for AI workloads.
- Establish governance, risk, compliance, responsible-AI, evaluation, audit logging, monitoring, and traceability frameworks.
- Design and implement control-plane and data-plane security using Private Endpoints, VNets, Managed Identities, Microsoft Entra ID, and zero-trust principles.
- Design highly available, multi-region where required, low-latency AI architectures and manage capacity, quotas, API rate limits, and Provisioned Throughput Units.
- Establish FinOps frameworks covering chargeback/showback, resource tagging, cost allocation, budgets, alerts, quotas, and AI consumption optimisation.
- Design automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, prompt-flow evaluation, model deployment, testing, release management, and platform observability.
- Collaborate with AI Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Security, DevOps, Architecture, finance, and other stakeholders to deliver production-ready enterprise AI platforms.
- Travel to the client site in Southampton 2–3 days per week.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in Azure cloud architecture, engineering, or platform engineering.
- At least 1–2 years of experience specifically focused on enterprise AI/ML platform engineering.
- Proven experience working in large-scale or enterprise Azure environments.
- A strong track record of translating business and technical requirements into enterprise architecture.
- Experience collaborating with AI Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Security, DevOps, and Architecture teams.
- Hands-on engineering capability combined with strategic architectural thinking and technical leadership.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security, cloud governance, AI platform scalability, reliability, and cost optimisation.
- Financial experience is preferred but not required.
- Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) and Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102).
Benefits
- 25 days of bookable holiday plus flexible Bank Holidays.
- Pension with 6% of salary paid by AND Digital and a further 2% paid by the employee, with the option to increase contributions.
- Aviva healthcare cover including pre-existing condition cover.
- £1000 Flexibenefit allowance through the benefits portal, with unused allowance available as cash.
- Life Assurance, Income Protection, eye test, and first pair of glasses.
- Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.
- The role requires travel to the Southampton client site 2–3 days per week.
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About AND Digital
AND Digital is a London-headquartered consulting firm that builds and modernises web and mobile products, cloud platforms, and data capabilities for large consumer and enterprise brands. It embeds cross-functional teams with clients to deliver software while upskilling in-house teams through agile coaching and digital learning. Founded in 2014 and privately held, it operates across the UK and Netherlands; clients have included British Airways and Heineken.