Innovation Platform Engineer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer2 months ago
Manchester, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead development and evolution of the firm's innovation platform across Azure and GCP.
- Design reusable cloud architectures, landing zones, deployment pipelines, and shared engineering services.
- Build secure, scalable, automated cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices.
- Establish engineering standards, technical guardrails, monitoring, observability, support capabilities, and operational best practices.
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines across multi-cloud environments.
- Design and build prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions, reusable templates, automation assets, and engineering components.
- Engineer AI-enabled solutions using Azure AI, Vertex AI, large language models, and agentic frameworks.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and provide technical feasibility assessments for innovation initiatives.
- Partner with architecture, security, infrastructure, data, product, and operations teams to transition successful prototypes into production.
- Document technical designs and architecture decisions and support knowledge transfer, testing, adoption, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Strong engineering experience across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience building and managing cloud-native platforms and services.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps methodologies.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing secure, API-driven architectures and integrating enterprise security controls.
- Hands-on experience with AI engineering platforms, large language models, orchestration frameworks, and AI solution development.
- Familiarity with GitHub, Azure DevOps, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Exposure to Power Platform, Zapier, Make, or other low-code/no-code technologies.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate across architecture, security, operations, and product teams.
- Experience in legal services or a professional services environment is advantageous but not essential.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape innovation engineering platforms, standards, and capabilities at a global law firm.
- Work spanning cloud platforms, AI, automation, and emerging technologies with colleagues across the global business.
- Employment is conditional on having or securing the right to work in the UK and providing evidence before employment begins.
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About Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a global law firm advising corporations, financial institutions, and governments on complex transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters across jurisdictions. Structured as a partnership headquartered in London and founded in 1743, it operates offices across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Its fee-based practice spans M&A, antitrust, arbitration and litigation, finance and capital markets, and compliance and investigations.