AI Platform Engineer — Build Secure, Scalable AI Infrastructure

M+C Saatchi Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Private healthcare

Employer pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Gym membership

Job summary

M+C Saatchi Group in London is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AI platform infrastructure that underpins MICA as it scales globally. This hands-on role focuses on platform delivery, integrations, automation and governance to ensure secure, scalable production services.

You’ll work with Security, Data and IT teams, translate operational needs into robust solutions, and partner with the AI Operations and Adoption Manager to enable onboarding, lifecycle management

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform, Cloud or DevOps Engineer in a complex environment.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience designing and managing APIs, integrations or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms, GenAI tools or emerging AI ecosystems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tooling.
• Understanding of security, compliance and governance in enterprise systems.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability.
• Ability to translate business or operational requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to assess capability of AI tools from a technical perspective and translate that into business fit and usage opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the core enterprise AI platform infrastructure supporting MICA including AI applications, agents, and automation solutions leveraging approved platforms and frameworks.
• Translate operational, governance and adoption requirements into scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
• Review and assure AI solutions against architecture, security, operational, and governance standards before production deployment.
• Engineer and maintain integrations with approved AI tools, ensuring consistent access, authentication, monitoring and usage tracking with secure and governed access to organisational knowledge and information.
• Partner closely with the AI Operations and Adoption Manager to enable onboarding, rollout and lifecycle management of AI services.
• Implement platform-level controls to enforce AI governance, including access management, auditability and data protection.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring and optimisation of AI environments.
• Monitor platform performance, usage and cost, driving continuous optimisation.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal IT teams to deliver platform enhancements and resolve dependencies.
• Contribute to the evolution of AI platform standards, architecture and engineering practices across the Group.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud/DevOps

APIs & Integrations

AI/ML platforms

IaC & Automation

Security & Governance

Monitoring & Observability

Requirements translation

Tooling automation

Job description

M+C Saatchi Group in London is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AI platform infrastructure that underpins MICA as it scales globally. This hands-on role focuses on platform delivery, integrations, automation and governance to ensure secure, scalable production services.

You’ll work with Security, Data and IT teams, translate operational needs into robust solutions, and partner with the AI Operations and Adoption Manager to enable onboarding, lifecycle management