Platform Engineer - London
Core
Building reusable platforms, tools, and services to improve developer productivity, accelerate delivery, and standardize engineering practices for a global law firm, including extending infrastructure to AI workloads.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & AI) (via careerplan.io/jobs/4371136009-platform-engineer-london-at-gibson-dunn)
Builds
Internal developer platform, self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code modules, and AI inference/evaluation infrastructure.
Domain
Legal services / Cloud Infrastructure / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Python, Bash, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, Observability, Policy-as-Code
Preferred skills
ITIL, Lean/Agile methodologies, Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure), CKA
Technologies
GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Vault, OPA/Conftest, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock
Responsibilities
Build and maintain self-service tooling, CLIs, and templates for development teams; Implement and maintain pipelines-as-code for reliable builds and deployments; Author and maintain modular infrastructure-as-code to provision cloud and on-prem resources; Instrument services for monitoring, logging, and alerting; Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; Apply platform security controls and manage secrets securely.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
