AI/Cloud Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree (Masters Degree preferred) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields
• 7+ years of experience in Cloud & AI
• 3+ years on Generative AI 10+ years of total experience in IT
• Deep understanding of Azure services, including but not limited to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Container Apps Environment, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Functions, and Azure Cognitive Services.
• Experience working with Generative AI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex etc., with deeper understanding of Global AI regulations, and AI Governance.
• Proven experience in DevOps practices, including setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in DevOps practices, including setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Masters Degree

Job Description

A fortune 100 organization is seeking a Lead Cloud and AI Engineer that will sit onsite in Bengaluru India for a contract to hire position. We are seeking a "Lead Engineer Cloud & AI" to drive the development through deployment of cutting-edge cloud-native AI solutions. This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise in Microsoft Azure, strong DevOps and CI/CD practices, and an engineering mindset focused on delivering impactful and value-centric solutions. The ideal candidate is a collaborative team player who thrives in both research-oriented problem solving and timeline-driven execution. The individual comes with a proven background on deploying Generative AI workloads (LLMs, LVMs, TTS, Speech to Text etc.) cloud native, with Security by design using Commercial (for ex: Azure OpenAI), or Open-source (for ex: Llama, Mistral etc.) models.