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# AI Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Opus Resourcing Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Octopus Deploy, Windows PowerShell, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, AI Infrastructure, Datadog, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, AI Platforms, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk, Docker, Jenkins, Golang
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-D85EEAE4B42E519BA9/

## About the Role

* Senior-level Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or software engineering.
 * Exposure to AI/GenAI infrastructure, including retrieval/RAG, model gateways, evaluation frameworks, or agent-based systems, is highly advantageous.
 * Experience working in regulated environments
 * Strong production coding skills in Go and Python, plus Bash and/or PowerShell.
 * CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
 * Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, plus Helm, Ansible, or similar.
 * Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.
 * Experience with GitOps, ideally Argo CD or Flux.
 * Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
 * Understanding of platform security, secrets management, policy-as-code, and SRE practices.
 * Experience working in Legal, professional services, or finance with complex enterprise systems

## Description

* Build reusable self-service tooling, APIs, CLIs, libraries, and platform services.
 * Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
 * Build modular cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform and Helm.
 * Support workloads across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GitOps environments.
 * Help build platform services for AI workloads including model inference, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation.
 * Implement monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting across traditional and GenAI services.
 * Participate in incident response and contribute to continuous reliability improvements.
 * Automate security, operational, and developer workflows.

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to join a new engineering function at the start of a major technology transformation, with real scope to influence how platform engineering, cloud, developer experience, and AI infrastructure are built across a global organization.

You'll work with technologies including Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GitHub Actions, GitOps, OpenTelemetry, and GenAI platforms, while gaining increasing end-to-end ownership as the team grows.

Opus Resourcing acts as an employment agency with respect to permanent employment.


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