AI Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Project description


Our partner - a top tier Hedge Fund - keeps expanding AI workflows. We are looking for a platform infrastructure engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure for deploying AI workloads safely and reliably at scale.
Compensation is 175000 USD Gross per year based on your interview results.


Responsibilities

The engineer will design container architectures for security-sensitive and multi-tenant environments, implement network policies and access controls for workload isolation, build CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployment, and establish infrastructure-as-code practices for reproducibility and auditability. They will work closely with AI engineers, but their primary focus is the platform itself - making it secure, scalable, and operationally excellent.


Comencation for NYC location 100000-120000 USD Gross per year and based on the interview results.


Skills


Must have


Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) - cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh), RBAC, and security policies


Strong AWS expertise - VPC architecture, IAM, ECS/EKS, networking, and security groups


Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi


Experience designing container architectures for multi-tenant or security-sensitive workloads


Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD platforms (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)


BS + 5 years or MS + 3 years in a platform/infrastructure/DevOps engineering role


Python and/or Go for tooling and automation


Up-to-date with the latest advancements in cloud-native infrastructure, container security, and AI workload deployment


Nice to have


Familiarity with AI infrastructure -agent orchestration frameworks, MCP


Experience in the financial domain - regulated environments, compliance-aware infrastructure


Experience with container orchestration platforms for autonomous or long-running AI workloads


Prior experience securing production AI agent workloads at scale


Other

Languages


English: B2 Upper Intermediate


Seniority


Senior