Senior AI Platform Engineer (Azure) - Scale Production AI

MRJ Recruitment Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MRJ Recruitment Limited seeks an AI Platform Engineer in Manchester City Centre (on-site) to build the platform behind our conversational AI products and broader AI initiatives. You will work across LLMs, RAG, vector search and Azure Foundry, delivering production-ready AI infrastructure.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability and operating AI systems in production, with a strong Azure focus and Terraform-based infrastructure. You will collaborate with AI, DevOps and security teams.

Qualifications

• Production environments experience in software/platform/infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native services.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with RAG, LLM integrations, retrieval pipelines or AI-enabled platforms.
• Experience with vector databases or search technologies such as OpenSearch.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and deploying containerised applications.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and production data workflows, including Azure Data Factory.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise production RAG pipelines, retrieval systems and LLM orchestration.
• Develop scalable, reusable AI platform components to support current and future products.
• Work with Microsoft Foundry and Azure cloud services to deploy and operate AI solutions.
• Improve performance, accuracy, latency and reliability of AI workloads.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and containerised applications.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate data ingestion, embedding generation and vector index maintenance.
• Implement monitoring, logging and tracing for visibility into performance, usage and cost.
• Improve security, governance and evaluation processes across AI systems.
• Collaborate with AI Engineering, DevOps and Security teams to take prototypes to production.

Skills

Python

Platform engineering

Cloud computing

Production readiness

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Foundry

Terraform

OpenSearch

Azure Data Factory

Job description

MRJ Recruitment Limited seeks an AI Platform Engineer in Manchester City Centre (on-site) to build the platform behind our conversational AI products and broader AI initiatives. You will work across LLMs, RAG, vector search and Azure Foundry, delivering production-ready AI infrastructure.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability and operating AI systems in production, with a strong Azure focus and Terraform-based infrastructure. You will collaborate with AI, DevOps and security teams.