Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (Contract)

Our client, a leading British airline, is building a secure, self-service AI platform. They need Platform Engineers who make it fast and safe for teams to deliver AI products.

Location: Heathrow Type: Contract

The role
You'll build and operate the platform that lets teams develop, evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI products consistently across the organisation, so they can deliver compliant AI capabilities quickly without rebuilding infrastructure each time.

What you'll do

Provide reusable environments, pipelines, templates, SDKs, and deployment capabilities
Integrate approved models, data sources, identity systems, secrets, and enterprise tools
Build observability across quality, latency, usage, cost, security, and operational health
Automate policy enforcement, evidence collection, and environment promotion
Run reliable runtime capabilities for agents, tools, retrieval, and scheduled workflows
Operate the platform with clear service levels, incident management, and capacity planning
Improve developer experience through documentation, paved roads, and self-service workflowsWhat you'll bring

Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations
Platform engineering discipline, which is non-negotiable
AI-specific knowledge is helpful and can be developed on the jobIdeal candidates from strategy consulting backgrounds
If you've come from the technology delivery side of a top-tier consultancy and have built and run cloud platforms in complex client environments, we'd like to talk. You'll bring a client-first mindset, a talent for turning vague requirements into a clear delivery plan, and experience working at pace with executives. You'll also need deep engineering credentials, because this role is about keeping a platform reliable.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy