Infrastructure Engineering Manager, AI Platforms

Scale AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI in London is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team turning innovative prototypes into scalable, high-performance enterprise solutions.

You will define the infrastructure roadmap, own uptime and reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and leadership to align on goals. The role emphasizes customer impact, platform excellence, and building playbooks to smooth future deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience and at least 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure or platform teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes deployments on on-prem infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Github Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience managing production environments with high availability, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices.
• Experience with modern developer platforms and internal tooling to improve engineering velocity.
• Solid foundation and real-world experience in network engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure systems.
• Set and maintain SLAs/SLOs for platform uptime, performance, and developer experience.
• Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.
• Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
• Inspire and mentor engineers.
• Work closely with product, security, and engineering leadership to align on goals and priorities.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

On-prem infra

Monitoring

Cloud security

Tools

CircleCI

Github Actions

Terraform (IaC)

Job description

Scale AI in London is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to bridge AI research and production, leading a team turning innovative prototypes into scalable, high-performance enterprise solutions.

You will define the infrastructure roadmap, own uptime and reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security, and leadership to align on goals. The role emphasizes customer impact, platform excellence, and building playbooks to smooth future deployments.