B1 - AI Platform Engineer - Agentic AI

Capgemini; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 51,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Agentic AI in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a senior AI Platform Engineer to build, operate, and scale the infrastructure and tooling for AI/ML workloads. This role centers on cloud platform engineering, CI/CD automation, and MLOps practices to enable reliable, secure, and scalable AI delivery.

The candidate collaborates with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to productionize models, design scalable GCP infrastructure, and implement IaC, containers, and observability to drive production readiness

Qualifications

• 7+ years in platform, DevOps, or infra engineering.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC).
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and IaC (Terraform preferred).
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or Go; containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability tooling and cloud security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable GCP-driven infra for AI workloads.
• Architect and run CI/CD pipelines for model training, deployment, and app release workflows.
• Develop and maintain MLOps pipelines for versioning, training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Deployment Manager) for repeatable provisioning; containerize services with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Establish observability and alerting using Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to productionize models and ensure security across environments.

Skills

GCP

CI/CD

MLOps

Python Bash Go

Docker Kubernetes

Security IAM

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Build

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

B1 - AI Platform Engineer - Agentic AI (Contract)

Charlotte, NC, United States (On-site)

Contract (1 month 23 days)

Published 2 days ago

production management

FinOps

GitOps

mlops

Terraform (IaC)

CI/CD

We are seeking a senior AI Platform Engineer to build, operate, and scale the infrastructure and tooling that power AI/ML and generative AI workloads. This role focuses on cloud platform engineering, CI/CD automation, and MLOps practices that enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of AI systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP to support AI/ML and application workloads
• Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines for model training, deployment, and application release workflows (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Build and maintain MLOps pipelines for model versioning, training, deployment, and monitoring (Vertex AI Pipelines, Kubeflow, MLflow)
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Deployment Manager) for repeatable, auditable environment provisioning
  Containerize and orchestrate services using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE)
• Establish observability, logging, and alerting for AI/ML services (Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Partner with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to productionize models and streamline the path from experimentation to production
• Ensure platform security, IAM policies, secrets management, and compliance across environments
• Drive automation to reduce manual toil across build, test, deployment, and rollback processes
• Troubleshoot platform/infrastructure issues and drive root-cause resolution for production incidents

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC/networking, BigQuery
• Deep experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, or Go)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of MLOps concepts and the ML lifecycle (training, versioning, deployment, monitoring)
• Experience with observability tooling (Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, and secrets management best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• GCP Professional certifications (Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, or Machine Learning Engineer)
• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Background working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments
• Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOps practices on GCP

Good to have:

• The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $36.98/hour - $57.79/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.