AI Infrastructure Architect Cybersecurity (All Genders)

3400 Accenture AG Company; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office

Technical training

Certifications

Learning platforms

Job summary

Accenture in Zürich seeks an AI Infrastructure Architect focused on cybersecurity to design and optimize AI infrastructure for production deployments. You will work on GPU clusters, distributed training, and end-to-end data pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will implement CI/CD, model serving, and Infra/MLOps practices, while mentoring juniors and shaping security-aware architecture across the stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on experience building AI/ML infrastructure, deploying AI systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize AI infrastructure across cloud and on-premises.
• Lead deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and model serving frameworks.
• Architect GPU clusters and distributed training environments for scalable AI workloads.
• Monitor and optimize performance, cost, and reliability of AI systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural standards and security practices.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

InfraOps

MLOps

AI Monitoring

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Airflow

Kubeflow

Job description

AI Infrastructure Architect - Cybersecurity #LI-EU and #LI-ASG

Your Mission

As a hands‑on AI Infrastructure Architect, you are an experienced engineer with several years in infrastructure engineering who now takes on more complex, higher‑impact work designing and optimizing the AI and machine learning infrastructure that powers real‑world applications. Working alongside senior architects and engineers — and increasingly leading your own workstreams — you apply proven skills in coding, testing, configuring, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting AI systems and the infrastructure they run on. Day to day, you architect and optimise infrastructure components, write and review code and deployment scripts, design and tune cloud and on‑premises compute resources such as GPU clusters and distributed training environments, deploy AI systems and models into production, and build and optimise data pipelines that feed AI and ML workflows. You optimise the computational stack for performance, cost, power, and scalability, monitor AI systems and infrastructure health across both InfraOps and MLOps disciplines, perform AI monitoring to track model and system performance, and independently troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the stack. You also mentor junior engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and help establish best practices. This is a hands‑on, ownership‑driven role where you apply and deepen your expertise across modern tools and platforms — including container orchestration, model serving, CI/CD pipelines, InfraOps, MLOps, and AI monitoring — while making meaningful contributions to infrastructure that enables AI‑driven business outcomes.

Your Daily Work

Write, review, and debug code, scripts, and infrastructure‑as‑code for AI infrastructure, automation, and tooling, setting standards for quality across the team. Architect, configure, and provision compute resources across cloud and on‑premises environments, including GPU clusters and distributed training setups, optimising for performance and utilization. Design and maintain deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, repeatable releases of AI systems, models, and applications. Deploy AI systems, models, and data pipelines into production, defining and improving the processes and best practices others follow. Lead container orchestration and model serving using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and model deployment frameworks. Architect and optimise the computational stack for performance, power, cost, and scalability, balancing trade‑offs against business goals. Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and platforms, making recommendations that shape the infrastructure roadmap. Integrate AI models and systems into existing enterprise systems, ensuring interoperability, security, and regulatory compliance. Own AI monitoring and infrastructure health across InfraOps and MLOps, tracking performance, reliability, and utilisation, and driving remediation. Independently troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the computational stack — hardware, networking, software, and models — and lead root‑cause analysis. Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, providing technical direction and supporting their growth. Define and document architecture standards, processes, and procedures, and apply security, cost‑efficiency, and scalability best practices across the infrastructure.

Who You Are

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related Engineering field. Practical experience in coding, building, monitoring, troubleshooting applications of AI/ML models; selecting, designing and infrastructure for deploying and running them on premise or on public cloud. Strong understanding of AI and machine learning as a subject. Strong understanding of computing infrastructure a subject, preferred knowledge of AI infrastructure. Experience in Cybersecurity Industry. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Kubeflow). Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work in a fast‑paced environment. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience in AI/ML infrastructure engineering or related roles on a hyperscaler platform for deploying large scale solutions.

What We Offer

• Flexible working models, including home office
• Access to over 30,000 technical and soft‑skills training opportunities
• Certifications and learning platforms

The Accenture Culture

Here, YOU are the catalyst for change. Your unique combination of skills, personality, and aspirations sets you apart. When distinct talents, strengths, and perspectives merge, the result is nothing short of extraordinary: ideas that propel the world forward. This is why we champion diversity and personal development at Accenture. Create a working environment where you truly thrive; with responsibilities that resonate deeply; with a workload that is perfectly aligned with your capabilities; and methods that are tailored to your objectives. How you wish to connect, further your development, and personally evolve rests in your hands. This is your career. We are mere facilitators, helping you shape it exactly as you envision.

Contact Us

Any questions? Please contact our recruiting team at [e-mail]. We look forward to your application.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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