3 months ago
Bristol, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and long-term direction of Rowden’s internal developer platform.
- Lead self-service provisioning, deployment workflows, and reusable modular platform capabilities.
- Establish patterns, guardrails, and runtime infrastructure for reliable agentic AI workloads.
- Define API-first integration strategies between systems, services, and external partners.
- Own CI/CD pipeline governance, infrastructure-as-code standards, and automation practices.
- Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, security, compliance, and platform reliability.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams.
- Drive strategic improvements to developer experience and reduce organisational engineering friction.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating engineering platforms at scale.
- Deep knowledge of platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, system design, service integration, and platform product thinking.
- Experience designing platforms for agentic AI workloads, including autonomous task execution, tool use, and model orchestration.
- Proven experience defining API strategies and integration layers for complex systems.
- Extensive production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and FluxCD.
- Strong understanding of modular, composable, and scalable platform architectures.
- Expertise in observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Deep knowledge of secure-by-design and zero-trust principles applied at an architectural level.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, such as Python, Go, or similar.
- Experience providing technical leadership across cross-functional teams and building alignment.
- Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with a minimum of three days per week onsite at the Bristol headquarters.
- Flexible working, with support for part-time requirements and workplace adjustments where possible.
- Inclusive workplace and Disability Confident Committed employer.
- Compensation is discussed openly at the first stage, with an indicative range available before significant interview investment.
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About Rowden
Rowden builds mission-critical, real-time edge computing systems that turn advances in sensing, AI, and communications into operational capability in degraded or denied environments. It provides systems integration, software, and technology services to national security, defense, and critical industry customers, improving decision-making for frontline teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bristol, England, the privately held company operates over 20,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing facilities.