Senior AI DevOps Engineer

Senior AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer / DV Clearable / 5 days a week on-site

Build and operate modern software systems where AI meets production reality

We're looking for a Senior AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering capability working on complex, important software systems that increasingly embed AI to improve delivery, decision-making, and operational effectiveness .

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who enjoys operating across software development, DevOps, and modern cloud platforms . You won't be a people manager, but you will be a trusted senior engineer, shaping technical approaches, raising engineering standards, and helping teams deliver reliable systems in production.

What you'll be doing

At the core of this role is building well-engineered, production-grade systems that integrate cleanly with AI platforms and services.

You will:

• Design, build, deploy, and operate AI-enabled software and platform solutions

• Develop API-driven services and integrations that allow systems to interact effectively with AI capabilities

• Modernise existing applications towards service-based, cloud-native architectures

• Implement and operate integration mechanisms between software systems and AI platforms , including emerging patterns and protocols where appropriate

• Use AI tools to improve engineering productivity - while maintaining full accountability for quality, safety, and correctness

• Review, validate, and guide AI-generated code and outputs , ensuring they meet real engineering and operational standards

• Build services in TypeScript and Python , supported by strong testing and clean code practices

• Package, deploy, and operate workloads using Kubernetes (e.g. Helm) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)

• Work closely with other engineers, platform teams, and AI specialists to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions

• Take responsibility for systems running in production , not just code that passes a build What we're looking for

This role suits an experienced senior engineer who brings breadth, pragmatism, and strong engineering judgement .

Essential experience:

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer , or similar hands-on role

• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: system design, maintainable code, testing, and operability

• Strong experience building API-first or service-based systems

• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating production systems using containers and automation

• Confidence working across development, deployment, and operational concerns

• A track record of owning technical outcomes in complex environments Desirable experience:

• Integrating software systems with AI platforms or AI-assisted workflows

• Exposure to emerging AI integration approaches or protocols (e.g. MCP)

• Platform engineering or DevOps at scale This is an opportunity to sit at the intersection of modern software engineering, DevOps, and applied AI , working on real production systems rather than experiments or demos. If interested, apply now!

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.