About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise Microsoft Azure platforms, including Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks, and cloud foundations
- Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise, including developing reusable modules, templates, and platform standards
- Hands-on experience with AKS, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Container Registry
- Strong Azure networking experience, including Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, DNS, Private Endpoints, NSGs, ASGs, and Azure Firewall
- Experience delivering CI/CD pipelines, platform automation, and cloud engineering best practices using Azure DevOps, scripting, and automation tooling
- Strong understanding of cloud security, Entra ID, RBAC, identity management, and zero-trust access control models
- Experience with modern AI platform technologies, including vector databases, MCP integrations, observability, FinOps, GCP, and workflow orchestration tools such as n8n
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones, cloud foundations, and platform services for enterprise AI and cloud workloads
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules, Infrastructure-as-Code standards, and automated deployment frameworks
- Deliver secure, scalable container-based platforms using AKS, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Container Registry
- Implement cloud networking, security, identity, and governance controls in line with enterprise best practices and zero-trust principles
- Support AI solution implementation by introducing platform guardrails, observability, monitoring, and operational controls
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and stakeholders; mentor engineers and promote cloud engineering best practices across the team
Technologies
- AI
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Firewall
- GCP
- Support
- Kubernetes
- MCP
- RBAC
- Security
- Terraform
- n8n
More
We at VIQU are supporting a large organisation seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (AI) to help build and evolve a new AI platform. This is an initial six-month contract, with scope to extend, based in Leicester with hybrid working. The contract is outside IR35, with a rate of £500–£600 per day.
last updated 46 week of 2026