AI Platform Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes & AI Agents

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays UK is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to shape the technology behind critical business services. You will develop and optimise scalable platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices to support millions of interactions daily.

The role focuses on building and operating secure Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure, and AI/LLM-based services with governance and cost awareness. Knutsford/Glasgow/Manchester are key locations.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms.
• Cloud engineering across AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience deploying AI agents or LLM-based services.
• Design, automate and support cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience with AI guardrails, monitoring and governance.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable Kubernetes platforms.
• Deploy and manage AI agents / LLM services, with monitoring and governance.
• Design and automate cloud infrastructure and services across AWS/Azure.
• Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable templates.
• Monitor AI workload consumption and optimize cloud costs.
• Implement CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC pipelines.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure cloud

AI/LLM platforms

CI/CD & GitOps

OpenShift

Guardrails & security

Observability & monitoring

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Barclays UK is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to shape the technology behind critical business services. You will develop and optimise scalable platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices to support millions of interactions daily.

The role focuses on building and operating secure Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure, and AI/LLM-based services with governance and cost awareness. Knutsford/Glasgow/Manchester are key locations.