Lead AI Infrastructure Architect

Accenture Italia; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 32,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Italia is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design and optimize AI/ML infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will lead deployment pipelines, model serving, and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes while mentoring engineers and driving best practices.

The role emphasizes performance, cost, and scalability, with responsibilities spanning security, compliance, and cross-team collaboration in a hands‑on, ownership‑driven culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience in AI/ML infrastructure engineering or similar roles on hyperscaler platforms.
• Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Java, or C++).
• Experience with data pipelines and workflow tools (e.g., Airflow, Kubeflow).

Responsibilities

• Write, review, and debug code and infrastructure-as-code for AI infra and tooling.
• Provision compute resources across cloud and on-prem environments, including GPU clusters.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI systems and data pipelines.
• Deploy AI systems, models, and data pipelines into production with best practices.
• Lead container orchestration and model serving using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Optimize computational stack for performance, power, cost, and scalability.
• Evaluate tools and platforms to shape infra roadmap.
• Integrate AI models into enterprise systems, ensuring security and compliance.
• Own AI monitoring and infrastructure health across InfraOps and MLOps.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and lead root-cause analyses.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive code reviews.
• Define architecture standards and cost-efficient practices across infra.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

AI infrastructure

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Model serving

GPU clusters

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Model deployment frameworks

Job description

Accenture Italia is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design and optimize AI/ML infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will lead deployment pipelines, model serving, and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes while mentoring engineers and driving best practices.

The role emphasizes performance, cost, and scalability, with responsibilities spanning security, compliance, and cross-team collaboration in a hands‑on, ownership‑driven culture.