Platform Engineer

Carbon 60; City Of London; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Carbon60 supports a leading British airline in hiring a Platform Engineer on a contract basis at Heathrow. You will build and operate a secure, self-service AI platform enabling teams to develop, evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI products with compliance and speed.

You will implement IaC, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations, promote platform reliability, and improve developer experience with templates, pipelines, and self-service workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations.
• Platform engineering discipline, which is non-negotiable.
• AI-specific knowledge is helpful and can be developed on the job.

Responsibilities

• Provide reusable environments, pipelines, templates, SDKs, and deployment capabilities.
• Integrate approved models, data sources, identity systems, secrets, and enterprise tools.
• Build observability across quality, latency, usage, cost, security, and operational health.
• Automate policy enforcement, evidence collection, and environment promotion.
• Run reliable runtime capabilities for agents, tools, retrieval, and scheduled workflows.
• Operate the platform with clear service levels, incident management, and capacity planning.
• Improve developer experience through documentation, paved roads, and self-service workflows.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Containers

Identity management

Observability

Production operations

Job description

Platform Engineer (Contract)

Our client, a leading British airline, is building a secure, self-service AI platform. They need Platform Engineers who make it fast and safe for teams to deliver AI products.

Location: Heathrow Type: Contract

The role

You'll build and operate the platform that lets teams develop, evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI products consistently across the organisation, so they can deliver compliant AI capabilities quickly without rebuilding infrastructure each time.

What you'll do

• Provide reusable environments, pipelines, templates, SDKs, and deployment capabilities
• Integrate approved models, data sources, identity systems, secrets, and enterprise tools
• Build observability across quality, latency, usage, cost, security, and operational health
• Automate policy enforcement, evidence collection, and environment promotion
• Run reliable runtime capabilities for agents, tools, retrieval, and scheduled workflows
• Operate the platform with clear service levels, incident management, and capacity planning
• Improve developer experience through documentation, paved roads, and self-service workflows

What you bring

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, identity, observability, and production operations
• Platform engineering discipline, which is non-negotiable
• AI-specific knowledge is helpful and can be developed on the job

Ideal candidates from strategy consulting backgrounds

If you've come from the technology delivery side of a top-tier consultancy and have built and run cloud platforms in complex client environments, we'd like to talk. You'll bring a client-first mindset, a talent for turning vague requirements into a clear delivery plan, and experience working at pace with executives. You'll also need deep engineering credentials, because this role is about keeping a platform reliable.