AI Platform Engineer (f/m/x)

Technologies tools

Must have

Terraform Microsoft Azure API Management IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

We are seeking a hands-on AI Platform Engineer to join our team as an external contractor. The primary mission of this role is to operate, automate, manage, and evolve our enterprise AI Platform so that internal development teams can rely on a stable, secure, scalable, and well-governed environment for building AI solutions.

This is a platform engineering and operations role, not an application development position. The ideal candidate is proactive, autonomous, understands cloud platform engineering principles, and can execute technical initiatives with minimal supervision.

The role spans infrastructure, CI/CD automation, API management, platform governance, and AI services, with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code and operational excellence.

Your tasks

• Administering and maintaining Azure AI Foundry workspaces, projects, model deployments, connections, and platform configurations
• Managing the lifecycle of LLMs, embedding models, AI services, and platform environments across development, non-production, and production
• Supporting platform scalability, reliability, availability, and troubleshooting platform-level issues across Azure services
• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including reusable modules, templates, and deployment patterns
• Automating environment provisioning, configuration management, and platform operations to ensure consistency across environments
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, including build, release, deployment, validation, and rollback processes
• Operating and maintaining Azure API Management (APIM), including API configuration, policies, authentication, authorization, throttling, and routing
• Supporting secure integration and exposure of AI capabilities to internal development teams and troubleshooting API connectivity issues
• Configuring and maintaining logging, monitoring, tracing, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts for platform performance, usage, cost, and operational health
• Monitoring platform capacity, quotas, consumption, and service reliability while implementing diagnostics and preventive measures for stable platform operations

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of experience in enterprise platform operations within Microsoft Azure environments
• Practical experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Practical experience with Azure API Management (APIM), including API configuration, policies, security, and routing
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or other Azure AI services
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, identity management, and access control
• Solid troubleshooting, problem-solving, and platform operations skills
• Ability to work independently and manage technical tasks end-to-end in enterprise environments
• Strong communication skills with fluent English proficiency
• Immediate joiners or candidates currently serving their notice period are preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with Portkey AI for LLM routing, observability, guardrails, caching, or governance
• Knowledge of multi-model AI platforms and model gateway architectures
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock or other cloud AI platforms
• Experience implementing platform observability solutions and operational dashboards
• Knowledge of enterprise AI governance, compliance, and security controls

Job no. JOB-24QW4

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