Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AI Infra & Security

NEXT plc; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXT plc is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain a scalable AI platform foundation across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. You will create guardrails, governance, and production-ready infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers and leading technical workshops.

You will drive observability, security controls, and FinOps, ensuring zero-trust principles and high availability. Collaboration with architects and security teams is essential to deliver enterprise-grade

Qualifications

• Seasoned cloud engineer with hands-on experience in designing, building and securing AI platform infrastructure.
• Strong track record implementing scalable, secure foundations on Azure and GCP with governance and production-readiness.
• Experience mentoring juniors, leading workshops, and promoting cloud best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable platform infrastructure for AI workloads across Azure and GCP.
• Develop standard templates, pipelines, and guardrails to accelerate production readiness.
• Lead incident response, disaster recovery, and coordinate major issue resolution.

Skills

Azure Foundations

Azure Container Apps

Vector Datastores

Identity & Access Controls

Prompt Injection Defense

AI Observability

FinOps

Terraform & IaC

Azure Networking

GCP

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure DevOps

ExpressRoute

AKS

Container Registries

EntraID

Job description

NEXT plc is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain a scalable AI platform foundation across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. You will create guardrails, governance, and production-ready infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers and leading technical workshops.

You will drive observability, security controls, and FinOps, ensuring zero-trust principles and high availability. Collaboration with architects and security teams is essential to deliver enterprise-grade