Remote AI Ops Engineer: Cloud Automation & AI Tools

Frontline Education; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness Initiatives

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Comprehensive Benefits

Personalized Time Off

Paid Sick Time

Volunteer Time Off

Ten Paid Holidays

Job summary

Frontline Education seeks an AI Ops Engineer to design, build, and scale AI-powered cloud operations within our SaaS Engineering team. Remote in the United States, with core U.S. business hours required.

You will partner with the AI / Cloud Operations Lead to deliver AI-driven solutions that enhance cloud operations, automation, release engineering, and developer productivity. Expect autonomy and a growing AI engineering practice.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience developing production quality applications.
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants as part of a modern software development workflow.
• Strong cybersecurity mindset with an emphasis on least privilege access, secure development, and data protection.
• Experience collaborating within Agile software development teams.
• Strong proficiency with Git, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Self motivated with the ability to independently prioritize and drive work to completion.
• Strong written documentation and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor technical discussions to different audiences.
• Desire to grow into future technical leadership opportunities such as Lead Engineer or Staff AI Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and continuously improve AI and cloud operations solutions from concept through production.
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including planning, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Develop high quality, maintainable code while providing thoughtful peer code reviews.
• Leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate software development while ensuring every change is thoroughly reviewed and validated.
• Build solutions that prioritize governance, auditability, and least privilege security principles.
• Evaluate security, operational, cost, and cross system impacts before implementing changes.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Help improve engineering practices, documentation, and technical standards across the team.
• Contribute to the team's long term growth and evolution as AI capabilities continue to expand.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Security mindset

Agile development

Git & reviews

Independent work

Technical writing

Effective communication

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Audit logging

Observability

Platform engineering

Job description

Frontline Education seeks an AI Ops Engineer to design, build, and scale AI-powered cloud operations within our SaaS Engineering team. Remote in the United States, with core U.S. business hours required.

You will partner with the AI / Cloud Operations Lead to deliver AI-driven solutions that enhance cloud operations, automation, release engineering, and developer productivity. Expect autonomy and a growing AI engineering practice.