Platform Engineer - AI Native Enablement

Compare the Market; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in financial decision-making as a Platform Engineer (AI Native Enablement) in Peterborough. You will enhance internal tooling for AI-native software development, ensuring reliability and scalability. This role offers opportunities for personal growth and a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salary, hybrid work, and professional development resources.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Private healthcare

Electric car scheme

Paid development days

Wellbeing and CSR days

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform or DevOps engineering in cloud-native environments, ideally AWS.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and developer productivity tooling.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol and agent orchestration interfaces is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Extend CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and developer workflows.
• Design and deliver internal tools supporting agent orchestration.
• Implement integration patterns for GenAI tooling.

Skills

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

DevOps engineering

Cloud-native environments

Agent orchestration

Observability

Traceability

Job description

Our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.
It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!
We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money and that’s why good things happen when you meerkat.

We’d love you to be part of our journey!
As a Platform Engineer (AI Native Enablement), you will build the internal tooling and infrastructure that enables safe, scalable, and efficient GenAI-native software development. You’ll operate inside the engineering team while contributing to the broader AI Platforms strategy.

Everyone is welcome!
We have a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic, whole selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.
This means we’re excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences and ideas. We don’t expect you to tick all the boxes, but would love to hear what makes you great for this role.

Some of the great things you’ll do:
• Extend CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and developer workflows to support agent-based systems
• Design and deliver internal tools that support agent orchestration and runtime controls
• Implement integration patterns for GenAI tooling and the Model Context Protocol
• Collaborate with software engineers to embed platform features into day-to-day delivery
• Align with the AI Platforms virtual team to ensure consistency and scalability

What we’d like to see from you:
• Platform or DevOps engineering experience in cloud-native environments, ideally AWS
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and developer productivity tooling
• Familiarity with or appetite to learn:
o Model Context Protocol and agent orchestration interfaces
o LLM runtime integration, embeddings, and vector stores
o Observability, traceability, and guardrails for agent-driven systems

What will success look like:
• Platform tooling is reliable, adopted, and accelerates development
• Engineers can build and deploy AI-native features with minimal friction
• Infrastructure is well-documented, observable, and easy to extend
• Platform improvements are proactive and directly tied to team velocity

There’s something for everyone.
We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.
And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you. From a generous holiday allowance and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid development, wellbeing and CSR days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!

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