Innovation Platform Engineer

Company: Oliver James Associates
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role, you will build and evolve cloud-based innovation platforms to support AI, automation and digital transformation for a leading international law firm. You’ll work across Azure and GCP with cross-functional teams to turn ideas into secure, scalable production services. You’ll prototype, implement, and govern platform solutions while advancing security and operational standards. This is a hands-on engineering position with a strong emphasis on experimentation and impactful AI delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve innovation platforms across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
  • Develop reusable cloud architectures, landing zones, deployment pipelines and shared engineering services
  • Automate cloud environments using infrastructure as code and DevSecOps practices
  • Build prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions, preparing successful projects for production
  • Engineer AI solutions using Azure AI, Vertex AI, large language models and emerging agentic frameworks
  • Establish monitoring, operational standards, security controls and platform governance
  • Develop, implement, and manage the innovation platform to support legal services
  • Collaborate with IT specialists to integrate new technologies into existing systems
  • Ensure continuous enhancement and upgradation of the innovation platform as per the industry standards
  • Diagnose and resolve issues related to the platform infrastructure
  • Assist in training team members and stakeholders on new technology implementations

Key requirements

  • Strong hands-on engineering experience across Azure and GCP
  • Experience building cloud-native platforms, infrastructure as code and automation
  • CI/CD pipeline development and DevSecOps experience
  • Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and secure, API-driven architectures
  • Practical experience developing AI solutions using LLMs and AI engineering platforms
  • Familiarity with GitHub, Azure DevOps and automated deployment tools
  • Exposure to Power Platform or other low-code/no-code tools would be useful
  • Practical approach to experimentation
  • Strong technical problem-solving skills
  • Clear沟munication with technical and business stakeholders
  • Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Cloud-native platform development
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation

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Posted: October 16th, 2026