Forward Deployment Engineer — Azure AI

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer — Azure AI based in Germany.

Join a high-impact engineering role where you will help organizations successfully adopt and operate cutting‑edge Azure AI solutions. Acting as the bridge between platform engineering and project teams, you will guide deployments, streamline onboarding, and ensure AI workloads are delivered efficiently and securely. This position combines hands‑on cloud engineering with stakeholder collaboration, offering the opportunity to influence platform improvements through real‑world implementation feedback. You will work in a modern, remote‑first environment alongside experienced engineers, contributing to scalable AI infrastructure while continuously enhancing deployment processes and best practices. If you enjoy solving technical challenges while working closely with customers and engineering teams, this role offers both ownership and meaningful impact.

Accountabilities

• Lead the onboarding of projects onto the Azure AI platform by following established deployment frameworks, runbooks, and best practices.
• Support requestor and client teams throughout onboarding, production launch, and the early operational lifecycle to ensure successful adoption.
• Configure and adapt Terraform modules, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines to meet project-specific requirements.
• Deploy and support machine learning workloads while assisting with lifecycle management across Azure environments.
• Identify deployment challenges, operational bottlenecks, and enhancement opportunities, providing structured feedback to Platform Engineering teams.
• Continuously improve onboarding documentation, reusable deployment patterns, and technical runbooks while ensuring compliance with security, governance, and operational standards.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, solution engineering, technical consulting, or a related field.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including the Azure Well‑Architected Framework and Azure AI services.
• Proven experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of machine learning deployment processes and model lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client‑facing consulting skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English.
• Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Kubernetes, AKS, containerization, Python automation, LLMs, RAG solutions, or previous customer‑facing engineering roles is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Career growth and continuous learning opportunities.
• Flexible remote working environment with a high level of ownership.
• Collaborative, innovative, and engineering‑driven culture.
• Opportunity to contribute to impactful AI and cloud infrastructure projects.
• International work environment with highly skilled and diverse teams.