
AI Platform Engineer
ClearRoute3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver internal developer platforms that improve developer experience and accelerate software delivery.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters including multi-tenancy, networking, RBAC, and cost controls.
- Own CI/CD pipelines from source control and testing through security scanning, artifact management, and deployment.
- Implement secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation using HashiCorp Vault or equivalent tools.
- Embed SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, on-call design, and blameless post-mortems.
- Design and test disaster-recovery strategies and integrate security and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
- Design and operate AI/ML infrastructure including GPU node pools, model-serving runtimes, vector databases, and MLOps pipelines.
- Integrate LLM APIs and AI agent frameworks with developer platforms, including prompt management, observability, cost controls, and rate-limit guardrails.
- Lead client discovery sessions and platform assessments, communicate technical trade-offs, coach client engineers, and produce documentation, ADRs, and runbooks.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, with AWS preferred and GCP or Azure accepted.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and familiarity with Helm, ArgoCD or Flux, Karpenter, Cilium, or similar ecosystem tools.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, with Terraform as the baseline.
- Practical experience designing or operating CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
- Comfort working in Linux environments and writing automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Client-focused consulting mindset and ability to solve underlying customer problems.
- Preferred experience with GPU scheduling, model-serving runtimes, MLOps tooling, LLM APIs, vector databases, semantic search, Apache Kafka, Chef, Ansible, mainframe environments, or hybrid-cloud patterns.
- Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, or HashiCorp Vault certifications are preferred.
- Prior consultancy or client-facing delivery experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Family-friendly working environment with flexibility for employees who have caring responsibilities.
- Interview-process accommodations are available for candidates who require them.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureBashChefGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmKubernetesLinuxMLflowPythonTektonTerraform