Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AI Enablement) Location: London The Client Our client is a leading investment firm where technology is central to its competitive advantage. The business continues to make significant investment across AI, cloud engineering and platform infrastructure, creating an environment where exceptional engineers can have a direct impact on how the firm operates and evolves. This is not a traditional infrastructure role. You'll sit between AI, cloud and Front Office technology, helping to build the foundations that enable next-generation capabilities across a global investment platform. Working alongside engineering leaders, infrastructure specialists and business stakeholders, you'll be responsible for delivering secure, scalable platforms that bring AI from concept into production. For engineers who enjoy solving difficult problems, working with smart people and building systems that matter, this is an opportunity to operate at the forefront of technology within financial services. What You'll Get The opportunity to shape an enterprise AI platform from the ground up.Exposure to Azure, AWS, GCP and leading AI technologies including OpenAI and Anthropic.A highly technical environment where engineering excellence is genuinely valued.Close collaboration with Front Office and senior technology leadership.Significant ownership and autonomy from day one.Competitive compensation, bonus and benefits.The chance to work alongside some of the industry's strongest technologists. What You'll Do You'll be responsible for building the platform capabilities that enable AI adoption across the organisation. That means designing secure cloud environments, automating infrastructure, integrating AI services and ensuring the firm's technology estate is ready to support the next wave of innovation. Expect to: Build and evolve AI-ready cloud platforms across a hybrid environment.Deliver automation-first infrastructure using modern engineering practices.Enable the adoption of enterprise AI technologies in a secure and governed manner.Partner with stakeholders across engineering, infrastructure and the Front Office.Drive improvements across resilience, scalability, observability and operational excellence.Influence the strategic direction of cloud and AI capabilities across the business. What You'll Need We're interested in speaking with engineers who have experience across several of the following areas: Public cloud engineering (Azure, AWS and/or GCP).Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, CDK).Platform engineering, automation and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell).Hybrid infrastructure and networking.Identity, security and governance within cloud environments.Production support within high-availability environments.Experience working within regulated, mission-critical or low-latency organisations is advantageous. Most importantly, we're looking for naturally curious individuals who enjoy building things and want to be part of an organisation that is investing heavily in AI and cloud technology. If you'd like to work on meaningful engineering challenges while helping shape the future of AI within a world-class technology organisation, we'd love to hear from you.