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# AI Platform Engineer

- **Company:** 17918
- **Location:** Broughton, UK
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Datadog, Data Logging, Azure Data Factory, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, AI Platforms, Terraform, OpenSearch, Microservices
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/ai-platform-engineer/53556523

## About the Role

ingestion, embedding generation and vector indexing. - Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and performance optimisation across AI workloads. - Apply security, access controls, versioning and governance best practices. - Collaborate with AI, software engineering, DevOps and security teams to deliver production-ready solutions. Skills & Experience - Strong Python development skills. - Commercial experience delivering solutions using Microsoft Azure. - Experience with data integration and ETL pipelines, such as Azure Data Factory. - Familiarity with vector databases or search technologies, such as OpenSearch. - Experience with Terraform, infrastructure-as-code and containerised applications. - Understanding of APIs, microservices and cloud-native architecture. - Experience supporting production systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability and performance. Desirable Experience - Building or supporting production AI applications using LLMs and RAG. - Experience with
embedding models, vector search and LLM orchestration. - Familiarity with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry. - Experience taking AI prototypes and proof-of-concepts into production. The Ideal Candidate A proactive engineer with a strong sense of ownership, excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, scalable production services. Sponsorship is not available. WKCL1_UKTJ