AI DevOps Engineer

Insight International (UK) Ltd; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm in the United Kingdom is looking for an expert in CI/CD and GenAI practices. The successful candidate will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure using tools like Ansible and Terraform. Candidates should have strong scripting skills and the ability to manage work independently while ensuring compliance with enterprise regulations. Familiarity with GenAI platforms and DevSecOps is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of enterprise environments, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to manage work and deliverables independently.
• Experience supporting GenAI platforms/services in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of systems.
• Collaborate with developers to streamline releases.
• Troubleshoot deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Implement guardrails for GenAI usage.

Skills

Bash

Python

Shell

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Overview

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, monitoring, and system reliability
• Strong understanding of enterprise environments, controls, and compliance requirements
• Ability to manage work and deliverables independently
• Ability to support GenAI-enabled engineering practices (e.g., AI-assisted development/operations) while adhering to enterprise governance, security, and risk controls

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of systems
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and IT operations to streamline releases
• Troubleshoot deployment, build, and infrastructure issues
• Maintain configuration management tools (Ansible)
• Ensure compliance with enterprise controls and regulatory requirements
• Work independently to deliver on assigned tasks and projects
• Utilize Jira and Confluence for work tracking and documentation
• Enable and operationalise GenAI/LLM-based tooling in the DevOps toolchain (where approved), including secure access, environment configuration, and integration into CI/CD workflows
• Implement guardrails for GenAI usage (e.g., data handling, prompt/content logging where required, secrets protection, model/tool access controls) aligned to enterprise policies
• Support reliability and observability for GenAI-enabled services (e.g., monitoring latency, error rates, cost/usage, and drift/quality signals where applicable)

Core Skills

• Scripting/Programming: Bash, Python, Shell
• Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform
• Source Control: Git, Bitbucket
• Security & Compliance: Understanding of DevSecOps, secrets management, enterprise controls, and compliance
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence
• GenAI/LLM Fundamentals: Understanding of LLM concepts (prompting, embeddings, RAG, model limitations), and how to apply them safely in engineering workflows
• GenAI Tooling & Integration: Experience using and integrating GenAI-assisted tools (e.g., code assistants, chat-based ops assistants) and/or APIs into developer/DevOps workflows
• Responsible AI & Data Handling: Awareness of privacy, IP, data classification, and secure usage patterns when working with GenAI tools in enterprise environments

Preferred

• Experience supporting GenAI platforms/services in production (e.g., model/API deployment patterns, prompt/version management, evaluation/monitoring, and cost controls)