Senior Platform Engineer
ClearRoute7 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build golden paths, templates, and scaffolding for AI workloads, including services, RAG pipelines, agents, and model-backed APIs.
- Operate the internal developer platform, including the developer portal, service catalog, self-service environments, and infrastructure-as-code modules.
- Standardize access to LLM providers and self-hosted models through shared gateways with routing, rate limits, caching, cost tracking, and key management.
- Integrate evaluation frameworks, prompt and model versioning, and regression testing into delivery pipelines.
- Embed PII handling, prompt-injection defenses, content filtering, audit logging, and policy-as-code into platform defaults.
- Provide observability for tracing, token usage, latency, and cost by team and feature.
- Create documentation and runbooks, run onboarding and office-hour sessions, pair with product teams, and gather platform feedback.
- Measure developer adoption, lead time, and friction points to guide the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including support for other engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and containers, including deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Experience designing and owning CI/CD systems and using GitOps tooling.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in at least one of Go or TypeScript.
- Practical experience building or integrating LLM-based applications, including provider APIs, embeddings, vector stores, or RAG patterns.
- Understanding of metrics, logs, and distributed tracing using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Datadog.
- A product mindset focused on developer adoption and internal platform usability.
- Preferred experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, agent and orchestration frameworks, LLM observability and evaluation tools, open-weight model serving, AI governance, ITIL, Kubernetes or cloud certifications, and consultancy or client-facing delivery.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with two days per week onsite at the London Farringdon office and the remainder remote.
- Home office budget, flexible working, birthday time off, and an open feedback culture.
- Profit share, recognition programs, private healthcare, and an employee assistance program covering counseling, mental health, and financial wellbeing.
- Interest-based communities, monthly socials, cross-regional events, and an inclusive collaborative culture.
- Learning budgets, Udemy access, career framework, internal mobility, and thought-leadership opportunities.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSAzureDatadogGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript
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About ClearRoute
ClearRoute is a London‑headquartered platform engineering consultancy that helps enterprises improve software delivery across cloud platforms, quality engineering, and developer experience. Founded in 2022, it provides advisory and hands‑on engineering services, applying its QCE framework to streamline routes to production and manage security, compliance, and scalability in complex, regulated, multi‑vendor environments.