# Senior Cloud Engineer - AI Platform

**Company**: NEXT
**Location**: Leicester
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £63,000 - £70,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer for the AI Platform, you will design, build, and maintain 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.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, build, and maintain the underlying platform infrastructure for AI platforms and workloads

- Collaborate with architects, security teams, and business stakeholders to engineer and manage a scalable, reliable, and highly secure foundation

- Deliver standard templates, robust pipelines, and platform guardrails

- Support and mentor junior team members

- Implement observability, token tracing, prompt injection defense, and built-in guardrails

**Requirements:**

- 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)

**Benefits:**

- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products

- Company performance-based bonus

- Sharesave scheme

- On-site Nursery available

- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty

- Early VIP access to sale stock

- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops

- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices

- 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

- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups

- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships

## Skills

### Required
- Azure Foundations
- Azure Container Apps
- AKS
- Vector Datastores
- Secure Storage Encryption
- Agent Identity Management
- EntraID
- RBAC
- Zero-Trust Access Controls
- Model Evaluations
- Security Controls
- AI Observability
- Token Tracing
- FinOps
- Model Context Protocol
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Networking
- APIM
- Automation
- Scripting
- Google Cloud Platform

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