Senior AI Platform & DevOps Engineer — GCP/Vertex AI

Tech Junction Ltd; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus is seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer / DevOps Specialist to join our enterprise infrastructure team in Charlotte, NC on a hybrid 6+ month contract.

You will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, MLOps pipelines, and CI/CD workflows on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Vertex AI, GKE, Terraform, and Kubernetes. This senior role requires 7+ years in platform engineering with strong IaC, scripting, and security practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience in platform engineering or DevOps.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services (Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, BigQuery).
• Deep experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines across major tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale cloud infra, MLOps platforms, and DevOps pipelines on GCP.
• Deploy and optimize AI platforms using Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, BigQuery.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
• Build IaC modules with Terraform.
• Write automation scripts in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Manage Docker and Kubernetes clusters and security practices.
• Oversee MLOps lifecycles from training to production monitoring.
• Implement observability using Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK.

Skills

GCP core services

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform IaC

Python/Bash/Go

Docker & Kubernetes

MLOps lifecycles

Observability tooling

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Build

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Docker

Kubernetes

Vertex AI

GKE

BigQuery

Job description

Ampcus is seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer / DevOps Specialist to join our enterprise infrastructure team in Charlotte, NC on a hybrid 6+ month contract.

You will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, MLOps pipelines, and CI/CD workflows on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Vertex AI, GKE, Terraform, and Kubernetes. This senior role requires 7+ years in platform engineering with strong IaC, scripting, and security practices.