Innovation Platform Engineer — Cloud & AI

0400 FBD USA LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Freshfields seeks an experienced Innovation Platform Engineer to design, engineer and operate secure, scalable cloud environments across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will build reusable platforms and CI/CD pipelines, applying DevSecOps principles and monitoring to support AI and automation initiatives.

You will collaborate with Innovation, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product teams to establish standards and enable rapid prototyping through production handover,

Qualifications

• Cloud platforms: Azure and GCP with secure, scalable environments.
• Experience delivering CI/CD and DevSecOps in multi-cloud.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration.
• Security controls integrated into architecture.
• Experience with AI engineering platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud platform development across Azure and GCP.
• Design reusable cloud architectures, landing zones, pipelines.
• Prototype and validate ideas with rapid experimentation.
• Collaborate with security, data and product teams.

Skills

Azure & GCP

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Pipelines

DevSecOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Security controls

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Power Platform

Zapier

Make

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Power Platform

Zapier

Make

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Freshfields seeks an experienced Innovation Platform Engineer to design, engineer and operate secure, scalable cloud environments across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will build reusable platforms and CI/CD pipelines, applying DevSecOps principles and monitoring to support AI and automation initiatives.

You will collaborate with Innovation, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product teams to establish standards and enable rapid prototyping through production handover,