Full-Stack Platform Engineer: AI, Cloud & DevOps

Foster + Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Wellbeing support (mental health & GP)

Job summary

Foster + Partners in London seeks a Full‑Stack Developer to help build, deploy and scale a shared technology platform underpinning AI applications and digital services. You will work across back‑end, cloud infrastructure and DevOps, delivering secure, scalable solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to move ideas from prototype to production.

The role emphasizes modern container orchestration, IaC practices and ownership of APIs, authentication, and deployment patterns in a

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, software development or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining production back-end applications using Python, Node.js or C#/ASP.NET Core.
• Deep expertise in containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, AKS or Azure Container Apps.
• Hands-on experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or similar frameworks.
• Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs, including authentication and authorisation using Entra ID and RBAC or ABAC models.
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, alongside CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver core services, APIs and infrastructure that support AI applications and agents at scale.
• Build reusable deployment patterns and cloud platforms that improve consistency, security and operational efficiency.
• Work with modern container, orchestration and Infrastructure as Code technologies in a production environment.
• Shape platform capabilities for authentication, observability, automation and application lifecycle management.
• Influence technology decisions by evaluating tools and recommending effective approaches.

Skills

Python

Node.js

C#

ASP.NET Core

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

Pulumi

Entra ID

RBAC/ABAC

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Education

Degree in computer science or software development or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure (AKS/Azure Container Apps)

Terraform

Bicep

Pulumi

Entra ID

RBAC/ABAC

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Foster + Partners in London seeks a Full‑Stack Developer to help build, deploy and scale a shared technology platform underpinning AI applications and digital services. You will work across back‑end, cloud infrastructure and DevOps, delivering secure, scalable solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to move ideas from prototype to production.

The role emphasizes modern container orchestration, IaC practices and ownership of APIs, authentication, and deployment patterns in a