Essential Experience
- Proven experience designing, delivering and operating cloud-native, platform engineering, AI platform or reliability engineering solutions within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of AI platform architectures including LLMOps, MLOps, agentic AI frameworks, model lifecycle management and AI operational controls.
- Experience establishing and scaling SRE practices including observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management and reliability engineering.
- Strong understanding of AI governance, responsible AI, regulatory requirements and model risk management.
- Experience implementing observability strategies using modern monitoring, telemetry and operational analytics platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary transformation programmes.
- Experience working across hyperscaler ecosystems including Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
- Proven ability to balance business outcomes, user needs, engineering constraints and operational requirements when shaping platform strategies.
Desirable Experience
- Experience with AI observability, model monitoring, AI governance tooling or AI platform operations.
- Experience of platform engineering, DevSecOps, automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Experience developing propositions, leading bids and supporting business growth activities.
- Active participation in AI, SRE, platform engineering or cloud communities.
Certifications (Desirable)
- Azure AI Engineer Associate
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AWS Machine Learning Specialty
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- SRE Foundation or SRE Practitioner
- Relevant observability platform certifications (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk etc.)
Security Check (SC) Clearance
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/united-kingdom-security-vetting-applicant#levels-of-national-security-clearance)
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
