Sr AI Operations Engineer

Key Responsibilities

AI Platform Operations

• Operate and maintain enterprise AI platforms and services across development, test, and production environments.
• Support Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, and related Azure AI platform services.
• Operate the application hosting platform for AI services across Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps, including networking, scaling, and runtime configuration.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, reliability, scalability, and operational stability.
• Perform platform configuration, lifecycle management, upgrades, and operational maintenance.

AI Service Deployment Operations

• Deploy and operationalize AI and Generative AI workloads in controlled enterprise environments.
• Support production AI solutions including copilots, AI assistants, chatbots, agentic applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) services, and machine learning applications.
• Manage release activities, prompt and model version control, runtime configurations, deployment validations, and operational handovers.
• Deploy and operate machine learning models and endpoints developed by Data Science teams, providing the pipelines, environments, and runtime platform they promote through.
• Troubleshoot deployment, integration, performance, and runtime issues across AI services.

Container Kubernetes Platform

• Support containerised AI workloads using Docker and Kubernetes operational best practices, including image build, hardening, registries, and runtime configuration.
• Help design, build, and operate Azure Kubernetes Service environments as the container platform is introduced for AI and platform workloads.
• Establish and monitor cluster health, capacity, autoscaling, networking, ingress, security policies, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to platform resiliency, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness.

Model Access Gateway Operations

• Operate the governed model-access layer serving AI applications, agents, and developer tooling - provider routing, failover, model catalogue, and version management across Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Manage model access control, user and application entitlements, quota allocation, rate limiting, and credential provisioning for the gateway.
• Monitor and attribute token consumption, throttling and 429 events, latency, and cost by model, application, and consumer.
• Support gateway upgrades, provider onboarding, configuration changes, and controlled rollout of new model versions.

Monitoring and Observability

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational metrics for AI platforms and services.
• Monitor AI system utilization, availability, latency, cost consumption, token usage, and performance trends.
• Monitor AI-specific signals including model and agent quality, quota and throttling events, data or model drift, and grounding index freshness.
• Use Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to identify incidents and improvement areas.
• Provide operational insights to engineering, security, governance, and leadership stakeholders.

Incident Problem Management

• Investigate and resolve platform incidents, production issues, service disruptions, and operational risks.
• Perform root cause analysis and document corrective and preventive actions.
• Support production support processes, escalation management, and incident communications.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and implement service reliability improvements.

Operational Excellence

• Create and maintain runbooks, support procedures, platform documentation, and operational knowledge articles.
• Automate recurring support, validation, monitoring, and deployment activities.
• Continuously improve platform efficiency, stability, security posture, and cost governance.
• Support service-level objectives and operational performance targets for AI platforms.

Cloud Engineering Automation

Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state management, validation, and peer review.
• Automate Azure AI platform provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, and environment standardization across development, test, and production.
• Manage controlled promotion of infrastructure changes across environments, with drift detection, change tracking, and infrastructure compliance.

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