Senior AI Gateway Cloud Engineer

Genuine Parts Company; Alabama; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company 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 AI models and services, automate provisioning and policy deployment, and ensure reliable, cost-efficient operation.

The role emphasizes security controls, monitoring, and incident response while collaborating with security, cloud, data, and architecture teams.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five to eight years of related experience or an equivalent combination.

Responsibilities

• Designs, 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.

Skills

AI gateway architecture

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Security controls

Monitoring & incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Genuine Parts Company 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 AI models and services, automate provisioning and policy deployment, and ensure reliable, cost-efficient operation.

The role emphasizes security controls, monitoring, and incident response while collaborating with security, cloud, data, and architecture teams.