Global Senior AI Platform Engineer

IFRC; Switzerland; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) invites applications for the Senior Officer, AI Platform Engineering. The role builds and runs IFRC’s shared AI platform on Microsoft technologies, provisioning Azure AI services, and supporting Copilot Studio and 365 Copilot integrations.

You will work with security and governance standards across the Secretariat. Responsibilities include maintaining CI/CD pipelines, operating Azure-based AI services, cost management,

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, information security, data science, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud operations, DevOps, platform engineering or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience operating and maintaining applications and services in Microsoft Azure environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform) and automating environment provisioning.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and managing deployment and release processes in production environments.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python and/or PowerShell.
• Experience with cloud monitoring, logging and troubleshooting tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights).
• Languages: fluent English; additional IFRC official languages preferred.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain IFRC's Microsoft-based AI platforms and services across development, testing and production environments.
• Configure and maintain platform components and integrations to support deployment and operation of AI applications and services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code templates and automate environment provisioning.
• Manage model deployments, quotas and capacity, and track model retirements for stable applications.
• Ensure life-cycle management and security configurations for AI workloads.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, and costs; optimize where possible.
• Maintain tagging and budgeting; coordinate removal/resize of unused resources.
• Operate AI gateway in Azure API Management with authentication and logging.
• Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Cloud operations

DevOps

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Azure monitoring

Cloud security

Cost management

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Azure API Management

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

SharePoint

Dataverse

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) invites applications for the Senior Officer, AI Platform Engineering. The role builds and runs IFRC’s shared AI platform on Microsoft technologies, provisioning Azure AI services, and supporting Copilot Studio and 365 Copilot integrations.

You will work with security and governance standards across the Secretariat. Responsibilities include maintaining CI/CD pipelines, operating Azure-based AI services, cost management,