AI-First AWS Platform Lead: Secure, Regulated Cloud

Schroders; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Schroders seeks an experienced Cloud Platform Engineering Lead to build, operate and secure an AI-first AWS cloud platform in a regulated enterprise environment. You will enable developers and autonomous AI agents with paved roads and guardrails, while delivering platform capabilities with strong engineering discipline.

You will lead Terraform-based IaC, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement preventative/detective security controls across AWS services, ensuring reliability and governance in a

Qualifications

• Deep AWS expertise with Landing Zones and guardrails.
• Experience building paved roads for developer productivity.
• Security-first mindset with compliance in regulated environments.
• Hands-on engineering delivering platform capabilities.
• Experience in enterprise-grade cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate an AI-first AWS cloud platform.
• Build and govern CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.
• Develop and maintain MCP servers and reusable agent skills.
• Implement security controls and policy as code.
• Collaborate with security and application teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Python

Linux

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Security

Platform Engineering

SRE

Agentic AI

Tools

Terraform

AWS Landing Zones

AWS Organizations

Control Tower

AFT (Account Factory for Terraform)

OPA/Cedar/Sentinel

Job description

Schroders seeks an experienced Cloud Platform Engineering Lead to build, operate and secure an AI-first AWS cloud platform in a regulated enterprise environment. You will enable developers and autonomous AI agents with paved roads and guardrails, while delivering platform capabilities with strong engineering discipline.

You will lead Terraform-based IaC, build CI/CD pipelines, and implement preventative/detective security controls across AWS services, ensuring reliability and governance in a