As a Senior Cloud Engineer for the AI Platform, you will be heavily involved in designing, building, and maintaining the underlying platform infrastructure that enables the business to develop, deploy, and scale autonomous AI agents and workloads. You will collaborate with architects, security teams, and business stakeholders to engineer and manage a scalable, reliable, and highly secure foundation across Microsoft Azure and GCP, delivering standard templates, robust pipelines, and platform guardrails that accelerate innovation while ensuring governance and production-readiness. In addition, as a senior engineer, you are expected to support and mentor junior team members through code review, lead technical workshops, and endorse cloud best practices.
You will be a key driver in delivering the foundational platform capabilities (including vector datastores, identity and access controls, MCP integrations, and FinOps) and acting as a gate for the productionisation of proven PoCs.
Your responsibilities will extend to implementing observability, token tracing, prompt injection defense, and built-in guardrails to proactively resolve issues, ensuring all infrastructure adheres to zero-trust security best practices, and managing platform stability and availability.
You will act as a crucial point of escalation, mentor junior team members, and take a lead role in coordinating the resolution of major issues. You will also participate in incident response, disaster recovery efforts, and work closely with other technology teams to establish a secure, enterprise-grade AI launchpad that eliminates shadow IT and speeds up time-to-production for new business solutions.
What You’ll Take On:You are an experienced and proactive engineer with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking architecture, automation, and security tailored for AI platforms and workloads. You are confident in scoping, designing, and planning large, complex projects, translating business requirements into robust, secure, and pragmatic technical solutions. You excel at managing stakeholder expectations and communicating clearly with senior management.
As a senior figure, you are a natural mentor, capable of coaching junior team members, developing standards, and acting as a subject matter expert for cloud and AI infrastructure.
What You’ll Bring:- Azure Foundations, Scaffolding & Landing Zones (Cloud Governance, AI Guardrails & Best Practice)
- Azure Container Apps, AKS, and Container Registries
- Vector Datastores, Secure Storage Encryption, and AI Memory Infrastructure
- Agent Identity Management, EntraID, RBAC, and Zero-Trust Access Controls
- Model Evaluations & Security Controls (Prompt Injection Defense, Guardrails)
- AI Observability, Token Tracing and FinOps / Cost Controls
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integrations & Tooling Pipelines
- Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Module Development
- Azure DevOps (CI/CD, Security, Pipeline Automation)
- Azure Networking (Express Route, Virtual Networks, ASG / NSG, Azure Firewall, DNS)
- APIM
- Automation & Scripting
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
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- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
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- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Skills Required
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure for AI platforms and workloads
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking architecture, automation, and security
- Experience with Azure foundations, scaffolding, landing zones, cloud governance, AI guardrails, and best practices
- Experience with Azure Container Apps, AKS, and container registries
- Knowledge of vector datastores, secure storage encryption, and AI memory infrastructure
- Experience with agent identity management, Entra ID, RBAC, and zero-trust access controls
- Knowledge of model evaluations, prompt injection defense, and AI security guardrails
- Experience with AI observability, token tracing, FinOps, and cost controls
- Experience integrating and tooling Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code module development
- Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, security, and pipeline automation
- Experience with Azure networking, including ExpressRoute, virtual networks, ASG, NSG, Azure Firewall, and DNS
- Experience with Azure API Management (APIM)
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Ability to scope, design, and plan large, complex projects
- Ability to translate business requirements into secure and pragmatic technical solutions
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including communication with senior management
- Ability to mentor junior team members, develop standards, and act as a cloud and AI infrastructure subject matter expert
What We Do
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 65,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help improve patient outcomes, improve the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to better diagnose disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. In 2017, BD welcomed C. R. Bard and its products into the BD family. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com.
