Platform Engineer & AIP Operations Lead

Acosta; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group is seeking a Platform Engineer & Operations Lead to own and operate the Palantir Foundry and AIP ecosystem within the AI Center of Excellence. This role drives platform reliability, security, governance, and cost efficiency while partnering with product, program, and project teams through design, build, go-live, and ongoing production support.

You will lead platform engineering, DevSecOps, IAM, observability, and enterprise integrations, ensuring scalable, compliant, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software, data, platform, or cloud engineering; DevSecOps; SRE; enterprise integration; or related technical domains.
• 5+ years building or operating enterprise data, analytics, AI, developer, or cloud platforms in production.
• Hands-on Foundry platform engineering or administration and AIP solution delivery or operations experience, including production support—not solely architecture or vendor management.
• Experience supporting multiple delivery teams through build, deployment, go-live, stabilization, and ongoing operations with security, governance, auditability, and cost management.
• Experience technically leading vendor engineers, managed-service teams, consultants, or distributed engineering resources.
• Deep technical capability in Foundry administration, AIP enablement, ontology design and governance, data pipelines, apps, actions, and integrations.
• Proficiency in DevSecOps, CI/CD, release controls, environment promotion, IAM/RBAC, least-privilege design, and enterprise security practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and production engineering skills, including observability, SLAs/SLOs, incident response, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own Foundry and AIP administration, configuration, environment strategy, releases, upgrades, capacity, and health.
• Engineer shared services, automation, and reusable patterns for AIP applications, agents, workflows, and model/tool integration.
• Partner with delivery teams on architecture, build, integration, testing, deployment, go-live readiness, and stabilization.
• Coordinate environments, access, release windows, cutover, and post-production support ownership.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, service levels, runbooks, incident response, and problem management.

Skills

Foundry admin

AIP enablement

DevSecOps

IAM/RBAC

Observability

Enterprise integration

FinOps

Vendor leadership

Platform engineering

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP

Job description

Acosta Group is seeking a Platform Engineer & Operations Lead to own and operate the Palantir Foundry and AIP ecosystem within the AI Center of Excellence. This role drives platform reliability, security, governance, and cost efficiency while partnering with product, program, and project teams through design, build, go-live, and ongoing production support.

You will lead platform engineering, DevSecOps, IAM, observability, and enterprise integrations, ensuring scalable, compliant, and