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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Operations Engineer (Python) - **Company:** Sky UK - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Foundry, System Configuration, Relational Databases, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software Engineering, Automatic Programming, Microsoft Power Automate, Large Language Models, AI Platforms, Kubernetes - **Published:** July 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8c695a0f073dd078 ## About the Role * Solid software engineering experience in Python, with a good understanding of Agile delivery in large scale enterprise environments. * Experience supporting or operating production systems, ideally AI driven or data intensive, with strong monitoring, observability, and distributed systems diagnosis skills. * Practical experience with cloud (particularly AWS), relational databases such as Postgres, and familiarity with container orchestration or PaaS such as Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. * Direct experience with low code automation in Copilot Studio and Power Automate, including configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting flows and their integrations. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable being the calm point of contact during incidents and translating technical issues for business audiences. * Practical experience keeping systems secure, managing dependencies, remediating vulnerabilities, and working to enterprise security standards. Desirable skills and experience: * Exposure to LLM or agentic AI systems, FinOps cost management, or AI governance and responsible AI controls. ## Description We are seeking an AI Operations Engineer to join our Group AI Engineering team and play a key role in keeping our autonomous AI systems running reliably across Sky. You'll work with cutting-edge AI technologies, from large language models to multi-agent architectures, ensuring the agentic solutions already in production stay secure, performant, observable, and cost-effective. This is a hands-on engineering role within a forward-thinking team driving AI adoption at enterprise scale. Where the build teams take solutions from prototype to launch, you'll own what happens next: maintaining live agentic systems, acting as the frontline support and point of contact for the stakeholders who depend on them, and continuously improving the reliability, security, and efficiency of the platform in production. What you'll do * Keep existing agentic and multiagent AI solutions reliable, secure, and performant in production as usage and requirements evolve. * Act as the point of contact for AI system issues, triaging, diagnosing, and resolving incidents while keeping stakeholders informed throughout. * Own monitoring, observability, and quality across the AI estate, going beyond uptime to track health signals specific to agents, such as output quality, model and prompt regressions, and guardrail or tool call failures. * Drive FinOps for AI workloads by tracking, attributing, and optimising the cost of LLM usage, compute, and cloud infrastructure to keep solutions efficient at scale. * Manage and improve the underlying infrastructure across a stack including Python, AWS, Postgres, and Cloud Foundry and/or Kubernetes, applying sound operational and DevOps practices. * Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities across the AI estate, patching dependencies and resolving scan findings so systems stay compliant with Sky's security standards and agentic AI governance. * Support and maintain low code automation built in Copilot Studio and Power Automate, ensuring these flows stay reliable, governed, and integrated cleanly with the wider AI platform. * As this is a production operations role, on-call cover may be required in the future to keep critical AI systems running reliably outside core hours. ## Related Videos - [Agentic AI - From Theory to Practice: Developing Multi-Agent AI Systems on Azure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1532-agentic-ai-from-theory-to-practice-developing-multi-agent-ai-systems-on-azure) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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