The Portfolio Group
AI Platform Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Experience designing and supporting cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure.
- Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
- Experience with containerised applications and CI/CD pipelines.
- Python for automation and scripting.
- Good understanding of cloud-native architecture, APIs and microservices.
- Experience with vector search technologies such as OpenSearch is advantageous.
- Experience with Microsoft Foundry or Azure AI Foundry is desirable, though not essential.
- We are also open to experienced Azure Platform, Cloud or DevOps Engineers looking to build expertise in enterprise AI.
- Design, build and operate AI platform infrastructure across Microsoft Azure.
- Develop and optimise RAG pipelines, AI services and platform components.
- Deploy infrastructure using Terraform and support containerised applications.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Improve observability, monitoring and platform resilience.
- Support vector search, embedding pipelines and knowledge ingestion.
- Apply security and governance best practice across the AI platform.
- AI
- OpenSearch
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Support
- Python
- Security
- Terraform
- microservices
- LLM
More:
We are an international SaaS business making significant investment in AI, offering the opportunity to influence the architecture of a growing AI platform and work with the latest Azure technologies. This is a hands-on role with genuine ownership, the chance to work on cutting-edge AI solutions, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI across multiple products. The role is being recruited on behalf of our client by The Portfolio Group.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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£60,000
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