AI Platform Engineer - DevOps, Python

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. ~ Conquering today’s challenges, achieving tomorrow’s vision!; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra-North Infoteck Inc. in Halifax, NS invites an AI Platform Engineer - DevOps to join an autonomous team delivering enterprise-grade AI services. You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines and scalable LLM/GenAI platforms, leveraging Python, TypeScript, Docker and Kubernetes to empower application teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across teams, with a focus on modern DevOps practices and continuous improvement in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• SDLC production-class delivery with ownership and communication.
• 2+ years development in Java, Python, JS/TS, C#, or C/C++.
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes, Agile approaches.
• Nice-to-have: Elastic Search and Kibana; GitHub Actions/Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Develop value-add services integrated with the DevOps stack.
• Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Python, TypeScript, Groovy, Jenkins.
• Coach application teams on leveraging DevOps offerings.
• Promote developer experience and best practices with DevOps.
• Participate in tool adoption, POC processes and recommendations.
• Evolve DevOps services for application teams.
• Design, build, and operate AI/GenAI platforms for LLMs.

Skills

Java

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

C#

C/C++

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AI Platform Engineer - DevOps | Python, TypeScript, CI/CD, Kubernetes, LLMOps

Halifax, NS - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)

Role Description

What is the Opportunity?

Are you looking to make an impact across many teams? Excited at the thought of transforming the flows that help these teams deliver their products to production? If so, youve come to the right place.

We are looking for a Developer obsessed with efficiency and automation to be part of an autonomous team to deliver services for application teams across Capital Markets. An open minded individual who is not afraid to fail fast and pivot when needed. An individual who seeks out gaps and challenges to drive efficiency not only for other application teams but also for their own team. Knowledge sharing is key in this respect. As a Developer, you will participate in transforming DevOps for Capital Markets.

What will you do?

• Develop value-add services which integrate with the existing DevOps stack
• Develop CICD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, Python, Groovy and Jenkins
• Coach application teams on how to leverage DevOps offerings
• Champion developer-experience and best practices in conjunction with DevOps to ensure no developer is left behind
• Participate in new tool adoption, POC process and provide recommendations
• Evolve DevOps services beyond current state for application teams
• Design, build, and operate enterprise AI/GenAI platforms supporting Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered applications.
• Develop scalable LLMOps and MLOps frameworks for model deployment, monitoring, versioning, evaluation, and governance.
• Build reusable AI services including:
  • Prompt Management Frameworks
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
  • Embedding and Vector Search Services
  • AI Gateway and Inference APIs
  • Agentic AI Orchestration Frameworks

Must-have

• An engineer mindset, SDLC experience with production class delivery, strong analytical mindset, communication skills, and sense of ownership / drive
• 2+ years of development experience in one of the following languages: Java, Python, Javascript/TypeScript, C#, C/C++
• Experience with application and system design patterns
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Agile methodologies, ie SCRUM

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Elastic Search and Kibana
• Experience using DevOps CICD tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, UrbanCodeDeploy
• Experience with a public cloud technology, i.e. Azure, AWS
• Experience building or supporting distributed applications