Remote AI Development Lead: Legacy Modernization & Security

Intone Inc; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Intone Inc. is seeking a contract AI/automation engineer to modernize legacy applications and upgrade infrastructure and security.

The role emphasizes building autonomous AI agents, dependency-aware upgrades, and IAM/SSO modernization using tools like Claude Code and Java-based workflows. You will work remotely across the United States, contributing to critical P1 incident recovery patterns and scalable automation across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience modernizing legacy applications and interconnecting enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience fixing infrastructure and security issues at scale.
• Experience navigating high-stakes incidents (P1).
• Strong understanding of AI agent design, prompt engineering, and autonomous task execution.
• Proficiency in Java and familiarity with runtime environments and dependency management.
• Experience with infrastructure modernization and platform upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Write, instruct, and continuously refine AI agents and skills to automate legacy application modernization and infrastructure upgrades.
• Design and engineer AI agents to handle dependency-by-dependency upgrades, including Java runtime migrations (e.g., JDK 17 to JDK 25) and legacy Linux platform transitions.
• Build AI agents capable of scanning and understanding legacy applications, generating technical specifications, and executing infrastructure changes with minimal human intervention.
• Lead the security and identity modernization track, evaluating applications to determine whether they require technology stack upgrades, security upgrades, or both.
• Architect solutions to transition applications from legacy security and authentication models (LDP, ISD) to modern Okta integration using AI-driven automation.
• Map downstream system impacts before changes and ensure AI agents account for interconnected enterprise systems and dependencies.
• Engineer AI agents to complete 90% of upgrade work autonomously, leaving the remaining 10% for human verification and validation.
• Work with Claude Code and Java-based tools to implement agentic solutions.

Skills

AI agent design

Prompt engineering

Java

Infrastructure modernization

P1 incident handling

Okta integration

Tools

Claude Code

Okta

Job description

Intone Inc. is seeking a contract AI/automation engineer to modernize legacy applications and upgrade infrastructure and security.

The role emphasizes building autonomous AI agents, dependency-aware upgrades, and IAM/SSO modernization using tools like Claude Code and Java-based workflows. You will work remotely across the United States, contributing to critical P1 incident recovery patterns and scalable automation across enterprise systems.