AI Platform Engineer

Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering or developer tooling experience
• Experience designing and operating developer platforms, CI/CD capabilities and engineering automation solutions
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems and modern software delivery practices
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and software quality
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and engineering automation practices
• Good knowledge of AI technologies including models, agents, evaluation frameworks and automated validation tooling
• Understanding of LLM cost optimisation, including token monitoring, caching strategies and model selection considerations
• Knowledge of approaches for managing and reducing token consumption costs
• Deep understanding of observability, automated testing and software delivery tooling
• Knowledge of platform security, governance and operational controls
• Strong programming, automation and problem-solving capabilities
• Passion for improving developer experience and engineering effectiveness
• Ability to apply systems thinking to solve organisational engineering challenges through reusable solutions
• Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate with engineering teams, technical leaders and platform stakeholders

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain engineering platform capabilities that enable AI-native software delivery at scale
• Develop reusable delivery controls, templates, pipelines, automation and engineering accelerators
• Embed automated validation, quality checks and secure defaults directly into software delivery workflows
• Build and evolve reusable patterns that support the safe and scalable adoption of AI-assisted development
• Improve developer experience through streamlined workflows, tooling integration and self-service capabilities
• Develop observability and measurement capabilities to provide insights into engineering productivity, quality and platform adoption
• Collaborate with Technical Leads and AI Software Engineers to identify recurring engineering challenges and implement platform-based solutions
• Enable responsible use of AI-generated code, testing, documentation and engineering artefacts through automated validation
• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning and deployment processes
• Ensure platform capabilities remain secure, scalable, maintainable and operationally resilient
• Evaluate emerging AI engineering tools and recommend adoption where appropriate
• Contribute to engineering standards, platform roadmaps and developer enablement initiatives

Technologies:

• AI
• ARM
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• LLM
• PLC
• Security
• Network

More:

We are VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions), a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc and the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry, with 30,000 FTE. We create value for customers through Talent, Technology & Transformation, and work in partnership with Vodafone Group, local markets and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. Through our strategic partnership with Accenture, we help Vodafone customers and other telco and tech companies drive transformation and stay resilient. This hybrid AI Platform Engineer role is based in Newbury or Paddington. We work across 28 countries from VOIS locations including Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Germany and Ireland, with teams also in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece and Portugal. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and encourage people to apply even if they do not meet every requirement.

last updated 36 week of 2026