Senior Platform Engineer

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Role:

You’ll own and evolve a shared Azure platform that several AI and agentic delivery teams build on. That covers identity, networking, CI/CD, observability and environment management, so teams can ship quickly and safely. You’ll set platform direction, make the key design calls and guide the engineers around you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and own shared Azure platform services for AI/LLM and agentic delivery teams

• Lead infrastructure-as-code with Terraform: reusable modules, standards, and clean, repeatable environments

• Provision and run AI platform components such as Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, AI Search, model endpoints and supporting data services

• Build CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) and golden paths for delivery teams

• Define identity, networking, security and governance baselines, including secure access to AI services

• Set up observability (logs, metrics, traces) for platform and AI workloads

• Write Python for automation, tooling and platform services

• Work with Tech Leads on their platform needs and trade-offs, and steer the platform roadmap

• Mentor engineers and review their designs and code

Required Experience:

• 7–15 years in platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering, with recent senior-level ownership

• Strong hands-on Azure: Entra ID/identity, VNets/networking, policy and governance

• Terraform at production scale, including writing reusable modules

• Hands-on experience building or running platforms for AI/ML/LLM workloads (e.g. Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, AI Search, ML pipelines)

• Python scripting and automation

• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps

• Kubernetes (AKS) and/or Azure container services

• Observability tools (Azure Monitor, App Insights, OpenTelemetry, etc.)

• Notice period of 30 days or less (immediate or 15 days preferred)

Desirable Experience:

• Building internal developer platforms or golden paths

• Consulting or client-embedded delivery background

Working at ClearRoute
We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow.

• Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).

• When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.

• A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.

• Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute.

At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at [email protected]