Hybrid AI Platform Engineer: Scalable & Secure

M&C Saatchi Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual holiday

Private healthcare

Employer contributory pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Gym membership

D&I mentoring programs

Job summary

M+C Saatchi Group in London is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AI platform foundations (MICA) as it scales globally. You will own the enterprise platform layer, focusing on delivery, automation and governance to ensure secure, reliable AI services.

This hands-on role collaborates with security, data and business teams, delivering scalable integrations, monitoring, cost controls and onboarding of AI tools.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform, Cloud or DevOps Engineer in a complex environment.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience designing and managing APIs, integrations or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms, GenAI tools or emerging AI ecosystems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the core enterprise AI platform infrastructure supporting MICA including AI applications, agents, and automation solutions leveraging approved platforms and frameworks.
• Translate operational, governance and adoption requirements into scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
• Review and assure AI solutions against architecture, security, operational, and governance standards before production deployment.
• Engineer and maintain integrations with approved AI tools, ensuring consistent access, authentication, monitoring and usage tracking with secure and governed access to organisational knowledge and information.
• Partner closely with the AI Operations and Adoption Manager to enable onboarding, rollout and lifecycle management of AI services.
• Implement platform-level controls to enforce AI governance, including access management, auditability and data protection.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring and optimisation of AI environments.
• Monitor platform performance, usage and cost, driving continuous optimisation.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal IT teams to deliver platform enhancements and resolve dependencies.
• Contribute to the evolution of AI platform standards, architecture and engineering practices across the Group

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

APIs & integrations

Automation & IaC

Security & governance

Observability

GenAI familiarity

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

M+C Saatchi Group in London is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AI platform foundations (MICA) as it scales globally. You will own the enterprise platform layer, focusing on delivery, automation and governance to ensure secure, reliable AI services.

This hands-on role collaborates with security, data and business teams, delivering scalable integrations, monitoring, cost controls and onboarding of AI tools.