Senior AI Platform Architect — Hybrid, Azure

EPAM Systems; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 paid holiday days

Pension plan scheme

Disability insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design and deliver production-grade AI systems on Microsoft Azure. The role blends hands-on coding with IaC, CI/CD, observability and governance to enable enterprise AI transformation across engineering teams and client delivery engagements.

You will build AI pipelines, agent workflows and gateway components, while mentoring engineers and shaping AI-assisted SDLC with robust security, testing and cost controls.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with GenAI, RAG, agentic systems and AI platform automation.
• Production-grade APIs and back-end services in cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Azure and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build RAG pipelines, AI assistants, agent workflows, AI gateway components and reusable platform elements.
• Deliver Azure AI solutions using Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, API Management, AKS, and monitoring tools.
• Create AI-native engineering workflows using GitHub Copilot, Actions, and Advanced Security; enforce secure PR patterns.
• Apply harness engineering patterns for AI systems including tool contracts, retrieval grounding, evaluation suites and telemetry.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, IaC automation, observability stacks and deployment frameworks for AI workloads.
• Create reusable templates, reference implementations and onboarding kits for client teams.
• Own workstreams such as retrieval, orchestration, AI gateways or Copilot enablement; mentor engineers and guide AI-assisted SDLC.

Skills

GenAI expertise

Cloud engineering

Mentoring teams

Communication

Tools

Python

TypeScript

C#

Java

Go

Azure

AKS

Terraform

IaC

GitHub Actions

GitHub Copilot

Azure OpenAI

Cosmos DB

Key Vault

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design and deliver production-grade AI systems on Microsoft Azure. The role blends hands-on coding with IaC, CI/CD, observability and governance to enable enterprise AI transformation across engineering teams and client delivery engagements.

You will build AI pipelines, agent workflows and gateway components, while mentoring engineers and shaping AI-assisted SDLC with robust security, testing and cost controls.