AI Platform Engineer — Hybrid, Build Scalable AI Tools

Vodafone; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone VOIS is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve engineering platforms enabling AI-native software delivery at scale. Hybrid work from Newbury or Paddington, with a focus on secure, scalable, reusable capabilities that improve developer productivity and software quality.

You will embed automated validation, develop delivery templates and pipelines, and collaborate with AI engineers to drive platform adoption and governance across the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering or developer tooling experience.
• Designing and operating developer platforms, CI/CD capabilities and engineering automation solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and engineering automation practices.
• Good knowledge of AI technologies including models, agents, evaluation frameworks and automated validation tooling.
• Understanding of LLM cost optimisation, including token monitoring, caching strategies and model selection considerations.
• Knowledge of observability, automated testing and software delivery tooling.
• Knowledge of platform security, governance and operational controls.
• Strong programming, automation and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain engineering platform capabilities that enable AI-native software delivery at scale.
• Develop reusable delivery controls, templates, pipelines, automation and engineering accelerators.
• Embed automated validation, quality checks and secure defaults directly into software delivery workflows.
• Build and evolve reusable patterns that support the safe and scalable adoption of AI-assisted development.
• Develop observability and measurement capabilities to provide insights into engineering productivity, quality and platform adoption.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads and AI Software Engineers to identify recurring engineering challenges and implement platform-based solutions.
• Enable responsible use of AI-generated code, testing, documentation and engineering artefacts through automated validation.
• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning and deployment processes.
• Ensure platform capabilities remain secure, scalable, maintainable and operationally resilient.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Developer tooling

CI/CD

Cloud-native

AI tooling

LLM cost optimization

Observability

Security & governance

Programming & automation

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Automation frameworks

Observability tools

Job description

Vodafone VOIS is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve engineering platforms enabling AI-native software delivery at scale. Hybrid work from Newbury or Paddington, with a focus on secure, scalable, reusable capabilities that improve developer productivity and software quality.

You will embed automated validation, develop delivery templates and pipelines, and collaborate with AI engineers to drive platform adoption and governance across the software development lifecycle.