Senior AI Platform Engineer

Our client is a technology consulting company providing operational and engineering services to the high-tech sector. They support platform and infrastructure teams across cloud and distributed environments, helping operate scalable, reliable, and production-ready technology platforms.
The Role

Our client is looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to operate, maintain, and continuously improve production AI platforms running on Kubernetes across on-premise, AWS, and GCP environments .

The role combines AI platform engineering, MLOps, Kubernetes, Python, observability, and production operations , working with environments similar to AI on EKS and Kubeflow-based machine learning platforms.

You will also play a senior role in improving engineering practices, mentoring team members, and helping shape the platform roadmap.
Key Responsibilities

- Deploy platform releases and configuration changes using GitOps and DevOps practices.

- Monitor AI platform and service health through logs, metrics, monitoring, and observability tools.

- Improve platform reliability through automation, operational tooling, observability, and self-service capabilities.

- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and 24/7 operational rotations.

- Investigate and resolve user, platform, integration, and configuration-related issues.

- Promote strong standards across platform security, reliability, and operational engineering.

- Mentor junior engineers in Python fundamentals and help develop their MLOps capabilities.

- Drive the adoption of MLOps best practices across the engineering team.

- Identify gaps in tooling, technical capabilities, and processes required to support production-grade AI systems.

- Contribute to the technical direction and ongoing development of the AI platform.

Qualifications

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3+ years of experience supporting production AI, ML, or data platforms using technologies such as Ray, Jupyter, AWS SageMaker, Kubeflow, or similar platforms .

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5+ years of experience across the AI/ML lifecycle, including development, deployment, DevOps, or MLOps.

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5+ years of hands-on Python experience supporting AI/ML workflows, applications, or data engineering pipelines.

- Strong practical experience with Kubernetes , including managed platforms such as AWS EKS or Google GKE .

- Good understanding of microservices architectures and service communication patterns .

- Strong troubleshooting skills across application crashes, resource contention, service latency, performance, and scaling issues.

- Experience analysing logs, metrics, monitoring systems, and service-level KPIs within production environments.

Nice to Have

- Exposure to additional AI and data platforms such as Flyte, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, LangChain, Claude Code, or other AI agent platforms .

- Hands-on automation or scripting experience using Bash or Python .

- Relevant Kubernetes or cloud certifications such as CKAD or AWS certifications .

Originally posted on Himalayas