About this role
This is a contract Platform Engineer role based in London, supporting a leading British airline in building a secure, self-service AI platform. You will build and operate the platform that enables teams to develop, evaluate, deploy and monitor AI products consistently across the organisation, so they can deliver compliant AI capabilities quickly without rebuilding infrastructure each time. Responsibilities include providing reusable environments, pipelines, templates, SDKs and deployment capabilities, integrating approved models, data sources, identity systems, secrets and enterprise tools, and building observability across quality, latency, usage, cost, security and operational health. You will also automate policy enforcement, evidence collection and environment promotion, and improve developer experience through documentation, paved roads and self-service workflows.
Job Description
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 workflows
What 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 job
Ideal 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.