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Job Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic AI Platform team. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining the cloud and systems infrastructure that powers our machine learning and generative AI workloads. This position requires deep expertise in cloud architecture, systems reliability, and automation, combined with a strong understanding of scalable AI/ML environments. The right candidate is passionate about performance, reliability, and enabling teams to deliver AI solutions efficiently and securely.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure supporting AI and ML workloads.
- Build and maintain AWS cloud environments for compute (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda), storage (S3, EFS, FSx), and networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53, load balancers).
- Implement security best practices using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.
- Support and optimize AI/ML workloads across AWS services (SageMaker, Bedrock, Batch, Step Functions).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.
- Manage containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Docker, EKS, Fargate), including GPU scheduling and scaling.
- Set up and maintain monitoring and observability frameworks using CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for infrastructure automation and ML/Gen AI deployments.
- Collaborate with ML and Generative AI teams to scale models, optimize performance, and design efficient prompt or inference pipelines.
- Develop runbooks and SOPs for AI service deployment, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Ensure security, compliance, and data protection across AI datasets and environments.
Requirements & Skills:
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services, with experience in compute, storage, networking, and security domains.
- Proficiency in container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS) and infrastructure automation tools.
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing.
- Understanding of AI/ML concepts, including model deployment, inference scaling, and LLM performance tuning.
- Working knowledge of security best practices, IAM roles, encryption, and compliance controls.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to partner with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams.
Education:
- A Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science with a preference for specialization in the NLP domain.
We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.
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