Cloud Engineer - AI Gateway - Global Industrial

Motion Industries (MOT); Alabama; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries is seeking an AI Gateway Cloud Engineer III to design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments. You will integrate approved AI models and services through standardized gateways and automate provisioning and policy deployment.

You will collaborate with security, cloud, data, architecture, and application teams to define runbooks, SLAs, and continuous improvement while mentoring engineers in platform governance and cost

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five to eight years of related experience or equivalent combination.
• Experience with cloud services across platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS) and Kubernetes required.
• Strong programming/scripting skills for automation and integration.

Responsibilities

• Designs, deploys, and operates secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Integrates approved AI models and services through standardized gateway interfaces and reusable patterns.
• Automates provisioning, configuration, policy deployment, and release processes.
• Implements model routing, failover, rate limits, token controls, and caching for reliability and cost efficiency.
• Secures AI traffic via identity, encryption, and private connectivity; enforces guardrails and data protection.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

AI models integration

Platform automation

Security & governance

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Python

Scripting (Shell/PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

SUMMARY:Under limited supervision, the AI Gateway Cloud Engineer III designs, deploys, and operates secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments. This role enables standardized access to approved AI models, agents, and services by automating platform provisioning, configuration, policy deployment, and release processes. The engineer implements routing, resiliency, traffic, token, caching, identity, encryption, data protection, and responsible AI controls to improve reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency. This role establishes monitoring and operational practices, leads troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and manages platform capacity, availability, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery. The AI Gateway Cloud Engineer III partners with security, cloud, data, architecture, and application teams to define onboarding standards, reference architectures, service-level objectives, and runbooks; evaluates emerging capabilities; manages priorities and continuous improvement; and mentors engineers in consistent platform engineering and governance practices.JOB DUTIESDesigns, deploys, and operates secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments.Integrates approved AI models, agents, and services through standardized gateway interfaces and reusable patterns.Automates platform provisioning, configuration, policy deployment, and release processes.Implements model routing, failover, rate limits, token controls, and caching to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.Secures AI traffic using identity, access, encryption, credential protection, private connectivity, and policy-based controls.Applies prompt and response guardrails, content-safety policies, data protection, and responsible AI controls.Establishes monitoring and alerting for requests, tokens, latency, errors, model usage, costs, and policy enforcement.Troubleshoots platform, network, provider, and policy issues and leads root cause analysis for production incidents.Manages platform capacity, availability, upgrades, resiliency testing, backups, and disaster recovery.Defines onboarding standards, reference architectures, service-level objectives, and operational runbooks.Partners with security, cloud, data, architecture, and application teams to enable compliant AI adoption.Evaluates emerging AI gateway capabilities and recommends adoption based on security, scalability, supportability, and cost.Manages project priorities, deliverables, operational commitments, and continuous improvement initiatives.Mentors engineers and promotes consistent platform engineering, security, and governance practices.Performs other duties as assigned.EDUCATION & EXPERIENCETypically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience or an equivalent combination.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIESAdvanced knowledge of AI gateway architecture and cloud services across Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services.Hands-on experience deploying and operating highly available platform services in cloud and Kubernetes environments.Experience integrating generative AI models, agents, and services through standardized gateway interfaces and reusable patterns.Proficiency with infrastructure as code, declarative configuration, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.Knowledge of model routing, load balancing, failover, rate limiting, token controls, caching, and usage-based cost optimization.Experience securing AI services through authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, private connectivity, and policy-based controls.Knowledge of prompt and response guardrails, content safety, data protection, auditability, and responsible AI governance.Proficiency with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, usage metering, and cost analysis for distributed AI workloads.Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across platform, network, provider, policy, and application integration layers.Knowledge of capacity planning, service-level objectives, resiliency testing, upgrades, backup validation, and disaster recovery.Ability to define reference architectures, onboarding standards, operational runbooks, and scalable platform engineering practices.Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with security, cloud, data, architecture, application, and business teams.Experience with Python and one or more scripting languages, such as Linux shell or PowerShell, for platform automation and integration.Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, evaluate emerging capabilities, and mentor engineers.PHYSICAL DEMANDS:LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: NoCOMPANY INFORMATION: Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.DISCLAIMER: This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.Not the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community on jobs.genpt.com or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.