AI Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Mat Vin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Leader to drive the roadmap for scalable, secure infrastructure supporting AI-driven applications. You will manage a growing engineering team, align with product and security leadership, and ensure high-availability and robust developer experience.

The role emphasizes cloud and on-prem hybrid environments, strong CI/CD practices, and leadership to mentor engineers and shape culture within the team.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in infrastructure or platform roles.
• 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure or platform teams.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI.
• Proven experience with kubernetes deployments on on-prem infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Circle CI, Github Actions), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience managing production environments with high availability, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices.
• Experience working with modern developer platforms and internal tooling to improve engineering velocity.
• Solid foundation and real-world experience in network engineering

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure systems.
• Set and maintain SLAs/SLOs for platform uptime, performance, and developer experience.
• Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.
• Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
• Inspire and mentor engineers.
• Work closely with product, security, and engineering leadership to align on goals and priorities.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infra monitoring

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

On-prem networking

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Leader to drive the roadmap for scalable, secure infrastructure supporting AI-driven applications. You will manage a growing engineering team, align with product and security leadership, and ensure high-availability and robust developer experience.

The role emphasizes cloud and on-prem hybrid environments, strong CI/CD practices, and leadership to mentor engineers and shape culture within the team.