AI Infrastructure Architect

Overview

Architect and build custom AI infrastructure and hardware solutions, optimizing performance, power consumption, cost and scalability of the computational stack, and advise on AI infrastructure technology and vendor evaluation and integration.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end architecture and design of optimized Azure compute infrastructure for large-scale AI/ML systems, including distributed training, GPU/accelerated compute, container platforms and model-serving environments.
• Design and tune large-scale Azure GPU clusters and distributed training systems using services such as Azure VMs, AKS, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Azure Virtual Network, Entra ID, Azure Monitor and Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, including accelerator selection, networking and high-throughput storage design.
• Serve as an authoritative AI infrastructure expert on Azure, applying deep knowledge of Azure AI/ML services, accelerators, networking, security and cost levers.
• Develop and evaluate architecture alternatives, weighing trade-offs across compute, networking, storage, orchestration, model serving, observability, security, compliance, cost and operational complexity.
• Lead architecture assessments and reviews of existing and proposed environments, identifying gaps, risks, bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, and recommending remediation actions.
• Drive architecture decision-making by documenting rationale, trade-offs, assumptions and dependencies so decisions are transparent, defensible and aligned with business SLAs and standards.
• Define and maintain AI infrastructure roadmap inputs, capacity planning models, scaling strategies, cost forecasts and performance improvement opportunities.
• Design deployment, automation and CI/CD strategies for reliable, repeatable and scalable releases of AI systems, models, data pipelines and platform components into production.
• Establish AI monitoring and observability practices across InfraOps and MLOps, including SLAs, SLOs, alerting, performance/cost tracking and continuous optimization.
• Integrate AI/ML systems into enterprise environments while ensuring interoperability, security, compliance, regulatory alignment and adherence to client standards.
• Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, architects and engineering teams to align infrastructure decisions with business outcomes and translate requirements into actionable architecture standards.
• Set technical direction for workstreams, mentor engineers, review designs/code and promote engineering best practices across the team.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related engineering field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience coding, building, monitoring, troubleshooting, designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure, cloud platforms, data platforms, model deployment pipelines or large-scale engineering solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and the computing infrastructure required to deploy, run and optimize production AI workloads.
• Minimum 4 years of proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C++, Bash, PowerShell or equivalent engineering languages.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, managed orchestration services or platform-native workflow tooling.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced engineering or client delivery environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in AI/ML infrastructure engineering or related roles on a hyperscaler or enterprise platform for deploying large-scale solutions.
• Proven experience leading AI projects or engineering workstreams and managing priorities across multiple initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and selecting AI technologies, frameworks, cloud services and architecture patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure AI infrastructure services including Azure VMs, AKS, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Azure Virtual Network, Entra ID, Azure Monitor and Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions.
• Experience architecting GPU/accelerated compute, distributed training, model serving, high-throughput storage, container platforms and secure cloud networking.
• Strong working knowledge of Bicep/ARM/Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, InfraOps, MLOps, observability and incident response practices.
• Ability to optimize Azure AI infrastructure for performance, power, cost, scalability, security, reliability and compliance.
• Experience producing architecture decision records, reference implementations, standards, runbooks and reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Must have skill: AI Agents & Workflow Integration.
• Minimum 7.5 years of experience is required.
• 15 years full time education.

Nice to have

• Good to have skill: Microsoft Azure Data Services.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure AI Engineer or Azure Data Engineer credentials.
• Industry experience in BFSI, healthcare, retail/e-commerce, telecom, manufacturing, energy or public sector environments where AI infrastructure must meet compliance, security, reliability and cost-control requirements.
• Exposure to LLM infrastructure, vector databases, retrieval pipelines, GPU scheduling, high-performance storage, low-latency model serving and model optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture governance, FinOps, infrastructure partner/vendor collaboration and production support operating models.