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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