Senior AI Platform Engineer — Scale AI-Driven Delivery

VOIS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve engineering platforms, automation capabilities and developer experiences for AI-native software delivery at scale. Hybrid role in the UK, with emphasis on secure, scalable and reusable engineering capabilities across multiple teams.

The role focuses on improving engineering productivity and software quality, embedding validation, security defaults and observability into delivery workflows, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering or developer tooling experience.
• Experience designing and operating developer platforms, CI/CD capabilities and automation solutions.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and engineering automation practices.
• Good knowledge of AI technologies including models, agents, evaluation frameworks and automated validation tooling.
• Understanding of LLM cost optimisation, including token monitoring, caching strategies and model selection considerations.
• Deep understanding of observability, automated testing and software delivery tooling.
• Knowledge of platform security, governance and operational controls.
• Strong programming, automation and problem-solving capabilities.
• Passionate about improving developer experience and engineering effectiveness.
• Able to apply systems thinking to solve organisational engineering challenges through reusable solutions.
• Effective communicator who can collaborate with engineering teams, technical leaders and platform stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain engineering platform capabilities for AI-native software delivery at scale.
• Develop reusable delivery controls, templates, pipelines, automation and engineering accelerators.
• Embed automated validation, quality checks and secure defaults directly into software delivery workflows.
• Build and evolve reusable patterns that support the safe and scalable adoption of AI-assisted development; improve developer experience through streamlined workflows, tooling integration and self-service capabilities.
• Develop observability and measurement capabilities to provide insights into engineering productivity, quality and platform adoption.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads and AI Software Engineers to identify recurring engineering challenges and implement platform-based solutions.
• Enable responsible use of AI-generated code, testing, documentation and engineering artefacts through automated validation.
• Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning and deployment processes.
• Ensure platform capabilities remain secure, scalable, maintainable and operationally resilient; evaluate emerging AI engineering tools and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• Contribute to engineering standards, platform roadmaps and developer enablement initiatives.

Skills

CI/CD capabilities

Automation solutions

Developer tooling

Cloud-native architectures

Observability

Security awareness

Systems thinking

Communication

Job description

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve engineering platforms, automation capabilities and developer experiences for AI-native software delivery at scale. Hybrid role in the UK, with emphasis on secure, scalable and reusable engineering capabilities across multiple teams.

The role focuses on improving engineering productivity and software quality, embedding validation, security defaults and observability into delivery workflows, and