AWS Cloud & AI Platform Engineer II

Apex Systems; Cincinnati, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

ESPP

401K with company match

HSA

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Certification discounts

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking an AWS Cloud & AI Platform Engineer II to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI enablement platforms in Cincinnati, onsite. You will work with Bedrock, SageMaker, and other AWS services, building scalable environments and automated pipelines.

Ideal candidates bring 9+ years in cloud/platform engineering, with strong Python, IaC, and DevOps skills, plus experience with AI/ML and GenAI tooling within secure environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Enable, architect, and support secure, governed, and scalable AI/GenAI platform capabilities to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• Design, implement, and maintain AI enablement environments, services, frameworks, and reusable architectural patterns.
• Architect, provision, and maintain AWS cloud-based AI platform infrastructure and shared services using IaC and automation pipelines.
• Enable and support AWS AI/ML and cloud-native services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, S3, Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Collaborate with agile squads, platform engineering teams, and product stakeholders to deliver enabling capabilities.

Skills

IaC & DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Job description

Job Title

Title: AWS Cloud & AI Platform Engineer II

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio (Onsite)

Duration: 3+ Month with Conversion possibility

Role Overview

The AWS AI Platform Engineer is responsible for enabling and advancing enterprise AI and machine learning capabilities within a secure, governed, and scalable technology environment. This role architects, implements, and maintains AI enablement platforms and services that support rapid experimentation, proof of concepts, model development, and enterprise adoption of GenAI and AI/ML solutions. The position is accountable for enabling AI services, maintaining cloud and platform environments, and supporting data integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Enable, architect, and support secure, governed, and scalable AI/GenAI platform capabilities to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• Design, implement, and maintain AI enablement environments, services, frameworks, and reusable architectural patterns.
• Architect, provision, and maintain AWS cloud-based AI platform infrastructure and shared services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation pipelines.
• Enable and support AWS AI/ML and cloud-native services such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, S3, Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, and data stakeholders.
• Evaluate, enable, and operationalize emerging AI/ML and Generative AI technologies for enterprise use cases.
• Establish and maintain AI platform standards, reference architectures, guardrails, and best practices.
• Support the integration of structured and unstructured data sources, cloud-native AI services, and APIs.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural guidance, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with agile squads, platform engineering teams, and product stakeholders to deliver enabling capabilities.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline. An advanced degree is preferred but not required.

Experience: 9+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, AI/ML enablement, platform architecture, or enterprise technology solution delivery within secure and governed environments. Experience enabling, supporting, or operationalizing AI/ML and Generative AI platforms, cloud-native services, and enterprise technology capabilities in AWS environments is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform services, infrastructure automation, and DevOps/IaC practices.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and DevOps practices using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, or CloudFormation.
• Strong programming and scripting skills with proficiency in Python and familiarity with SQL and APIs.
• Experience with AWS AI/ML services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker is necessary.
• Knowledge of AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex is also required.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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