AI/ML Platform Engineer - LLM Infra & Kubernetes

CACI International Inc; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI International Inc is seeking an AI/ML Platform Engineer to join the Lisle DevOps team. You will support on-premises LLM-enabled technologies, agentic workflows, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliable operation within development and test environments.

The role requires expertise in AI infrastructure, DevOps practices, and building scalable pipelines using Kubernetes, MCP servers, and RAG workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline with four years of related experience, or a Master’s Degree plus two years of related experience.
• Experience supporting systems with 100+ users and complex inter-networked architectures.
• Strong IT fundamentals in networks, security, and lifecycle support.

Responsibilities

• Architect a greenfield implementation of LLM-enabled technologies for agentic workflows.
• Deploy, operate, and monitor open-weight LLMs on local Kubernetes clusters.
• Design and maintain RAG pipelines for document handling and retrieval with existing models.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

SQL

GitLab CI/CD

Java

Airflow

Spark

Apache Iceberg

DBT

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Master’s Degree with two years related experience

Tools

Kserve

vLLM

LangFuse

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Nexus

Job description

CACI International Inc is seeking an AI/ML Platform Engineer to join the Lisle DevOps team. You will support on-premises LLM-enabled technologies, agentic workflows, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliable operation within development and test environments.

The role requires expertise in AI infrastructure, DevOps practices, and building scalable pipelines using Kubernetes, MCP servers, and RAG workflows.