Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid

Salary: £60,000/year

Company

hirify.global is an independent media agency delivering measurable media solutions for commercial and purpose-led brands through strategy, planning, activation, data, analytics, and creative thinking.

What you will do

• Build and run the AI-agent platform, including orchestration, model routing, queues, retries, environments, and deployments.
• Own least-privilege access control for human and agent credentials, including quarterly reviews and orphaned-credential prevention.
• Implement queryable, attributable audit logging for every automated action and maintain auditor-friendly retention.
• Establish cost metering and alerting for model APIs, GPU workloads, and vendor licences with per-workflow unit costs.
• Run evaluation infrastructure and quality gates with the data and analytics team.
• Manage model-provider, RPA, and legacy media-system integrations; harden and document infrastructure with runbooks, recovery procedures, degraded modes, and secrets hygiene.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or similar engineering roles.
• Production experience with a major cloud platform; the current environment uses Azure.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep, or an equivalent tool, plus CI/CD experience.
• R or Python as a primary everyday programming language.
• Production PostgreSQL experience, including data pipelines and warehouses.
• Experience running LLM-backed systems in production, including gateways, orchestration frameworks, and observability.
• Experience deploying and testing open-weight models.
• Passion, creativity, problem-solving, boldness, proactivity, practicality, and pragmatism.

Nice to have

• Experience in media, marketing, or advertising.
• PostGIS experience.
• Frontend UX design experience.
• Awareness of Mediaocean/DDS.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include thinking freely, aiming higher, staying smart, getting involved, and winning together.
• Quarterly pulse surveys support continuous improvement, with employee committees for social activities, diversity and inclusion, and environmental impact.
• Dedicated training time, industry-specialist partnerships, and career development support.
• Inclusive workplace focused on representation, belonging, and ensuring all voices are heard.

Hiring process

• Applications should show original thinking, personal perspective, experience, curiosity, and judgement rather than relying on polished generic wording.
• AI may be used wisely, but applications should retain the candidate’s own judgement and voice.