AI Platform Engineer (Contract) – Self-Service Ops

Carbon 60; City Of London; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Carbon60 supports a leading British airline in hiring a Platform Engineer on a contract basis at Heathrow. You will build and operate a secure, self-service AI platform enabling teams to develop, evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI products with compliance and speed.

You will implement IaC, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations, promote platform reliability, and improve developer experience with templates, pipelines, and self-service workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations.
• Platform engineering discipline, which is non-negotiable.
• AI-specific knowledge is helpful and can be developed on the job.

Responsibilities

• Provide reusable environments, pipelines, templates, SDKs, and deployment capabilities.
• Integrate approved models, data sources, identity systems, secrets, and enterprise tools.
• Build observability across quality, latency, usage, cost, security, and operational health.
• Automate policy enforcement, evidence collection, and environment promotion.
• Run reliable runtime capabilities for agents, tools, retrieval, and scheduled workflows.
• Operate the platform with clear service levels, incident management, and capacity planning.
• Improve developer experience through documentation, paved roads, and self-service workflows.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Containers

Identity management

Observability

Production operations

Job description

Carbon60 supports a leading British airline in hiring a Platform Engineer on a contract basis at Heathrow. You will build and operate a secure, self-service AI platform enabling teams to develop, evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI products with compliance and speed.

You will implement IaC, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations, promote platform reliability, and improve developer experience with templates, pipelines, and self-service workflows.