Azure AI Platform Lead – Developer Experience

ClearRoute Limited; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Home office budget

Profit share

Private healthcare

Salary benchmarking

Employee assistance program

Learning budgets/Udemy access

Job summary

ClearRoute Limited is seeking a Platform Enablement Lead to bridge platform engineering, AI tooling and product teams. You will shape the internal platform, standardise model serving, and drive developer tooling, self-service environments and golden paths.

You will collaborate with security, product and engineering to deliver faster, safer AI features. The role sits in a hybrid London office setup, with a focus on scalable, observable platforms and self‑service capabilities that reduce toil and

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform, DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Kubernetes and containers in production; deployment, scaling, troubleshooting.
• CI/CD design & ownership; GitHub Actions or GitLab CI; GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Python and at least one of Go or TypeScript.
• Practical experience building/integrating with LLM-based apps; provider APIs, embeddings, vector stores or RAG patterns.
• Observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog).
• Product mindset about internal platforms; treat developers as customers and measure adoption.

Responsibilities

• Build golden paths for AI workloads with templates, scaffolding, CI/CD and security.
• Run the internal developer platform; maintain the developer portal and self-service environments.
• Enable model access/serving via a shared gateway with routing, caching and key management.
• Make evaluation routine by integrating eval frameworks and versioning into pipelines.
• Bake in guardrails with security, PII handling, prompt-injection defenses and logging.
• Improve observability with traces, dashboards and cost visibility per team/feature.
• Produce docs, run onboarding sessions and collect feedback for platform roadmap.
• Measure developer experience by tracking adoption, lead time and friction points.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Argo CD

Flux

OpenTelemetry

Job description

ClearRoute Limited is seeking a Platform Enablement Lead to bridge platform engineering, AI tooling and product teams. You will shape the internal platform, standardise model serving, and drive developer tooling, self-service environments and golden paths.

You will collaborate with security, product and engineering to deliver faster, safer AI features. The role sits in a hybrid London office setup, with a focus on scalable, observable platforms and self‑service capabilities that reduce toil and