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# Director AI Platform & Engineering in Oxfordshire

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Oxfordshire, VA, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Regression Testing, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Snowflake, AI Platforms, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Virtual Agents, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Software Version Control
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/director-ai-platform-engineering-oxfordshire-31270131

## About the Role

10-12 years in software or platform engineering, including recent delivery of production LLM applications (RAG, tool calling, agents, evaluations).
Deep AWS expertise (IAM, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, CloudWatch), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK), and CI/CD practice.
Strong proficiency in Python or a comparable , with a sound engineering discipline.What you need to do now

## Description

The Director, Agentic AI Platform & Engineering owns the technical platform on which the businesses' AI agents are built and operated: the AWS-based agentic automation stack (Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related services). This is a hands-on engineering role reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence, and does not currently have direct reports.
The role works through existing functions rather than duplicating them: Infrastructure for AWS accounts, networking, and cloud operations; Security for , access, and data protection; and Data / enterprise systems teams for Snowflake and system integrations., Own the internal implementation and architecture of Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related AWS services as the businesses single enterprise agentic automation platform.
Design and own runtime governance components: guardrails, evaluation harnesses, automated regression testing, observability, logging, and prompt/tool/model versioning.
Build and maintain reusable agent templates and platform engineering patterns so new agents are faster, cheaper, and safer to deliver.
Own the tool/action architecture, including APIs and Lambda / Step Functions / EventBridge patterns, ensuring agents access enterprise systems through narrow, approved tools rather than broad credentials.What you'll need to succeed


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