Hybrid AI Platform Engineer: Scale, Security & Automation

M&C Saatchi Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual holiday

Private healthcare

Employer contributory pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Gym membership discount

Job summary

M+C Saatchi Group is hiring a hands-on Platform Engineer to build and operate our enterprise AI platform. You will own platform delivery, automation and secure integrations, ensuring scalable, production-ready services across a global team.

This role collaborates with AI Operations, security and data teams to enforce governance and standards. Based in London with a hybrid pattern, you will translate operational needs into practical platform solutions, driving efficiency, reliability and cost

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Platform/Cloud/DevOps engineer in complex environments.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience designing and managing APIs, integrations or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms or GenAI ecosystems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tooling.
• Understanding of security, compliance and governance in enterprise systems.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability.
• Ability to translate business or operational requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to assess AI tool capability from a technical perspective and translate to business use.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the core enterprise AI platform infrastructure supporting MICA, including AI applications, agents and automation solutions.
• Translate operational, governance and adoption requirements into scalable 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 with secure access and governance.
• Partner with AI Operations and Adoption Manager to enable onboarding, rollout and lifecycle management of AI services.
• Implement platform-level controls to enforce AI governance (access management, auditability, data protection).
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring and optimization of AI environments.
• Monitor platform performance, usage and cost; drive continuous optimization.
• Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis; collaborate with vendors and internal IT teams.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

APIs & integrations

Event-driven architectures

AI/ML platforms

Infrastructure as code

Security & governance

Monitoring & observability

Requirements translation

Vendor collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Job description

M+C Saatchi Group is hiring a hands-on Platform Engineer to build and operate our enterprise AI platform. You will own platform delivery, automation and secure integrations, ensuring scalable, production-ready services across a global team.

This role collaborates with AI Operations, security and data teams to enforce governance and standards. Based in London with a hybrid pattern, you will translate operational needs into practical platform solutions, driving efficiency, reliability and cost