Technical Consultant - Cloud Platform Engineering

Hays are now looking for a Technical Consultant - Cloud Platform Engineering.

• £615 p/d Inside IR35
• Remote (with a meeting once a month in London or Manchester)
• 6 month+ contract
• BPSS

Our client is looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to support the build and delivery of a secure, enterprise-scale AI platform within HMRC. Focused on cloud engineering, AI service integration, automation, platform reliability and productionising AI/ML solutions.

Key Responsibilities

- Build and deploy cloud-native AI platform components.
- Translate architecture designs into production-ready solutions.
- Develop scalable backend services, APIs and distributed systems.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment processes.
- Integrate AI services into enterprise applications and delivery pipelines.
- Support production AI/ML workloads.
- Ensure security, governance and compliance requirements are met.
- Optimise platform performance, resilience and reliability.

Essential Skills & Experience

Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Strong backend engineering and cloud platform development experience.
- Experience building production-grade cloud-native applications.
- Scalable API and distributed systems design and development.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform services and automation.

Infrastructure & Automation
- Terraform and Ansible.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.

AI & Machine Learning
- Experience integrating AI/ML services into enterprise environments.
- Amazon Bedrock experience.
- Understanding of AI/ML production deployment and operational support.

Security & Governance
- Experience working within regulated environments.
- Knowledge of security, governance and compliance requirements.
- Secure-by-design engineering principles.

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