Azure AI Ops Engineer - Remote

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International seeks an Azure Operations/AI Engineer to support enterprise AI capabilities in a secure federal cloud environment. The role will provide operational and engineering support for AI services, related Azure infrastructure, and the DevSecOps practices that move AI capabilities into reliable production use.

You will work across cloud, application, security, data, and operations teams to configure and monitor AI platform components, support onboarding and access, automate delivery,

Responsibilities

• Provide operational support for enterprise AI capabilities, including onboarding initiatives and users, configuring approved Azure services, and coordinating access, permissions, and dependencies.
• Translate AI and application requirements into secure, supportable cloud and infrastructure configurations across Azure environments.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD workflows for AI and platform components using GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, GitLab, or comparable technologies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards using Splunk, Azure Monitor, Databricks logging, AppDynamics, or comparable platforms.
• Coordinate root cause analysis across application, cloud, data, platform, and security teams; document defects, risks, corrective actions, and operational resolutions.
• Support security and compliance activities, including baseline configuration, vulnerability scanning, ATO documentation, change control, audit coordination, and remediation tracking.
• Evaluate emerging AI, cloud, and DevSecOps technologies through proof-of-concept environments and provide technically grounded recommendations.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup, recovery, and continuity practices for AI and supporting infrastructure.
• Participate in Agile planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, technical specifications, and governance documentation.

Job description

ICF International seeks an Azure Operations/AI Engineer to support enterprise AI capabilities in a secure federal cloud environment. The role will provide operational and engineering support for AI services, related Azure infrastructure, and the DevSecOps practices that move AI capabilities into reliable production use.

You will work across cloud, application, security, data, and operations teams to configure and monitor AI platform components, support onboarding and access, automate delivery,