Jr Cloud & AI Engineer

Job Description
Job Description
Professional Search Group- OC is seeking a Junior Cloud & AI Engineer to join their client's team. This is a unique starting role for someone with strong technical fundamentals and the right mindset curious, methodical, comfortable being uncomfortable, someone who wants real hands-on experience building production systems from day one, not shadowing tickets in a corner. The Junior Cloud & AI Engineer work directly with senior engineering leadership, using enterprise-grade tools we already have in place, to design, build, and deploy real automation projects that touch our live client environments.
Your first project: will be building together with senior staff an intelligent call-routing and screen-pop system that integrates our telephony platform with our PSA (professional services automation) ticketing system using API-driven lookups, Azure Functions, and real-time routing logic to get client calls to the right team automatically. You'll be building this end-to-end, with expert guidance side-by-side with other team members, not just executing a spec.
This organization is a 25-year-old managed services provider serving businesses across Southern California with 24x7x365 NOC/SOC operations, endpoint security, helpdesk, and Microsoft cloud services. They hold a Microsoft Direct CSP partnership with Advanced Specialization designation and we're actively building the next generation of our service delivery around AI-driven automation, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native security. They are investing heavily in modernizing how managed services get delivered — treating infrastructure as code, building AI-assisted workflows into daily operations, and using tools like Terraform, Azure, and large language model APIs to make our engineering team faster and our clients better protected. Ready to be a part of something big? APPLY!
What You'll Do
* Integrate third-party APIs (telephony, PSA/ticketing, and others) into cohesive automated workflows
* Collaborate directly with senior engineers on architecture decisions, not just implementation
* Document your work clearly enough that someone else on the team could pick it up
* Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) on Microsoft Azure
* Write Python-based automation, integrations, and API tooling for internal and client-facing systems
* Work within Azure cloud security fundamentals Entra ID, identity/access management, RBAC, Key Vault
* Use Git/GitHub for version control, code review, and collaborative development

What We're Looking For
* A recent college graduate with a degree in Computer Science or a closely related field
* Solid working knowledge of Python — coursework, personal projects, or internship experience all count
* Familiarity with Git/GitHub — you understand branches, commits, and pull requests, even if you haven't worked on a large team yet
* Some exposure to or strong interest in cloud platforms (Azure preferred, but AWS/GCP experience shows the right instincts)
* Curiosity about Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and cloud security concepts, even without deep hands-on experience yet
* Strong problem-solving instincts and a willingness to ask questions, break things in a sandbox, and learn fast
* Genuine interest in AI/automation and how it's changing how technical work gets done
Apply for this amazing opportunity today!