Principal Cloud Engineer - AI Platforms

Jobtailor; West Chester (Chester County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the United States to design, implement, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for AI-enabled platforms. You will provision resources with IaC, monitor health, and drive automation while collaborating across engineering teams.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, cloud provider expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, and strong security fundamentals. Expect on-call rotations and a focus on observability and secure deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent coursework/experience.
• Cloud infrastructure engineering experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Kubernetes and container platform experience.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Python programming for automation and operational tooling.
• Monitoring, logging, and alerting systems experience.
• CI/CD tools and release automation experience.
• Security fundamentals, including IAM, secrets management, encryption, and network security.
• AI literacy covering agent lifecycles, orchestration, and non-deterministic execution behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure for scalable, highly available AI-enabled and Agentic platforms.
• Provision and manage cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code.
• Monitor platform health through metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud, distributed-system, and integration failures.
• Develop automation and tooling in Python and shell scripting.
• Implement and improve observability solutions.
• Collaborate with application, data, and AI teams before and after releases.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and safe, repeatable deployments.
• Ensure secure cloud operations, including secrets management, access controls, encryption, and secure networking.
• Apply AI literacy to understand agent lifecycles, orchestration, and non-deterministic execution.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Kubernetes

Python Programming

Security Fundamentals

Observability

Distributed Systems

CI/CD Tools

Monitoring & Logging

IAM & Secrets Management

Networking & Encryption

Education

Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the United States to design, implement, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for AI-enabled platforms. You will provision resources with IaC, monitor health, and drive automation while collaborating across engineering teams.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, cloud provider expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, and strong security fundamentals. Expect on-call rotations and a focus on observability and secure deployments.