Staff Platform Engineer — AI‑Powered Internal Dev Platform

Vodafone Group Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for an AI-native Internal Developer Platform. You will help engineering and product teams build, deploy, and operate software at scale with governance by design.

You will drive self-service capabilities, platform tooling, and AI-assisted workflows, shaping an enterprise-grade platform with reliability, security, and strong developer experience across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating internal developer platforms or cloud-native systems.
• Strong technical expertise across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, and security.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Java with experience building platform tools or APIs.
• Ability to influence across teams and translate technical vision into outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and evolve the technical roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform, treating it as a product with clear adoption and performance outcomes.
• Design and implement self‑service capabilities, reusable golden paths, and standardised service templates for efficient software delivery.
• Provide technical direction across platform domains including compute, Kubernetes, networking, secrets management, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Enable AI‑assisted engineering workflows to enhance productivity, automate routine activities, and improve decision‑making.
• Embed governance, security, and compliance controls through policy‑as‑code and auditable platform practices.
• Improve platform reliability through SLOs, observability frameworks, resilience engineering, and incident‑driven improvements.

Skills

Platform design

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Programming (Python/Go/Java)

Job description

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for an AI-native Internal Developer Platform. You will help engineering and product teams build, deploy, and operate software at scale with governance by design.

You will drive self-service capabilities, platform tooling, and AI-assisted workflows, shaping an enterprise-grade platform with reliability, security, and strong developer experience across multiple teams.