Senior AI Engineer (Microsoft Azure AI Foundry)

Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global helps organisations address technology challenges by combining human expertise, emerging technology and AI.

What you will do

• Build and maintain an automated AI Developer Experience platform on Microsoft Azure using Terraform.
• Author modular Terraform scripts for Azure AI resources, sandbox environments and secure landing zones.
• Construct CI/CD pipelines for agentic workflows, prompt evaluation, automated testing and release gating.
• Design, containerize and deploy Model Context Protocol servers and gateways connecting AI agents with enterprise databases and APIs.
• Create reusable developer templates, local execution environments and self-service infrastructure modules.
• Implement tracing and metrics with Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry and Log Analytics across agents, tool calls and pipeline steps.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of production-grade, modular Terraform development targeting Azure infrastructure.
• Strong experience building YAML pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including Azure Key Vault secrets management and automated environment provisioning.
• Hands-on experience or working knowledge of Model Context Protocol architecture, agent orchestration frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, AutoGen or LangChain, and API gateway patterns.
• Experience deploying containerized microservices with Azure Container Apps or Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Solid knowledge of Azure networking, including VNets, Private Endpoints and DNS, together with Entra ID access controls and Docker.

Nice to have

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

Culture & Benefits

• 12-month contract with a collaborative, inclusive and client-focused working environment.
• 25 days of bookable holiday plus flexible Bank Holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 6%, with a further 2% employee contribution.
• Aviva healthcare cover, life assurance and income protection.
• £1,000 Flexibenefit allowance, with unused allowance available as cash.
• Enhanced maternity and partner leave, plus eye tests and a first pair of glasses.