Senior Platform and AI Engineer

Senior Platform and AI Engineer About Us: ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges. We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains. Role We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operationalise a production-grade Architecture as Code platform. This platform will enable our client to manage architecture documentation, standards, and governance as version-controlled code — enhanced by automated validation, AI-powered design reviews, infrastructure drift detection, and a conversational AI agent for natural language queries across the architecture estate. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who enjoys combining modern DevOps practices with cutting-edge AI capabilities to deliver scalable, intelligent platforms. Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will take ownership of the end-to-end platform, building and integrating CI/CD pipelines, AI-driven review capabilities, document generation tooling, and a published architecture portal. You’ll work across the full technology stack — from GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines through to LLM orchestration and static site deployment. Required Skills & Experience: Must have: Strong software engineering in Python with experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines) Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (Azure OpenAI or OpenAI) including prompt engineering, structured output parsing, retry/backoff, and token budget management Proficiency with Git workflows, branch protection, code review automation, and static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, or similar) Desirable: Experience building agentic or multi-persona AI systems with configurable prompts and routing logic Familiarity with markdown tooling ecosystems (markdownlint, Mermaid, YAML frontmatter processing) Prior work on developer experience or internal platform tooling in an enterprise setting At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis. We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at [email protected] Department Engineering Locations London Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time