Senior AI Engineer - Microsoft Azure (Contract)
and-digital · Leeds, England, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- AI engineering
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Company size
- 501-1000
and-digital · Leeds, England, United Kingdom ·
This 12-month contract role involves building and maintaining an automated AI Developer Experience platform on Microsoft Azure using Terraform. The engineer will focus on infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipeline construction for AI agents, and integrating Model Context Protocol services.
Senior AI Engineer - Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
12 Month Contract
Who We Are
We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap.
We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.
Since 2014, we’ve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.
That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.
Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.
Role Overview
As a Senior AI Engineer you will be responsible for building and maintaining an automated AI Developer Experience (DevX) platform using Terraform on Microsoft Azure. This role focuses on automating infrastructure provisioning for AI workloads, integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and constructing robust pipelines for AI Agent deployment and evaluation.
Key Responsibilities & Capabilities
IaC & Platform Automation - Author, modularize, and maintain enterprise Terraform scripts to provision Azure AI resources, sandbox environments, and secure landing zones.
Agent Pipelines & CI/CD - Construct automated CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) designed for agentic workflows, prompt evaluation, automated testing, and release gating.
MCP Integration - Design, containerize, and deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and gateways to connect AI agents securely with enterprise databases and APIs.
Developer Enablement - Create reusable developer templates, local execution environments, and self-service IaC modules to streamline onboarding for AI developers.
Observability & Telemetry - Implement tracing and metrics collection (Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Log Analytics) across agent executions, tool calls, and pipeline steps.
Technical Qualifications
Why join AND Digital?
We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way.
Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.
Our Practice Areas act as a ‘second home’ for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy.
Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.
By joining AND, we’ll provide:
Equal Opportunities Statement
Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We’re actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.
AI Statement
We champion tech that helps people work smarter, but we want to get to know you! If you use AI to assist with your application or interview prep, please ensure all information submitted remains an accurate, truthful representation of your personal achievements and capabilities rather than generating false or misleading information. We may reject applications where AI is used inappropriately at any stage of the recruitment process.