Senior AI Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra & LLM Ops

Vizient, Inc.; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build scalable cloud-based services powering AI/ML applications.

You will work with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to productionize LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI solutions. You will leverage Pulumi, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes to implement infra-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, observable systems, while defining reusable patterns and engineering standards to accelerate

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Strong Python development experience with production backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-based applications.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Pulumi/Terraform) and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless architectures, and cloud deployment practices.
• Knowledge of observability tools and production support practices.
• Familiarity with ML/AI systems, model serving, LLM applications, inference pipelines, and RAG workflows.
• Experience with Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, or similar AI/ML platform technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform components for AI/ML applications and distributed systems.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure using Pulumi and modern IaC practices; develop CI/CD pipelines and containerized cloud environments.
• Support production deployment of ML models, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI systems with engineers to productionize model serving and data workflows.
• Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident management to improve reliability and performance.
• Implement engineering standards for testing, code quality, security, maintainability, scalability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Define reusable platform patterns, developer tooling, and workflows to improve productivity and consistency.
• Evaluate emerging AI engineering trends and tools to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Partner with product, security, data, and platform teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions and contribute to platform strategy.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive remediation to improve stability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Python development

Distributed systems

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Databricks

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build scalable cloud-based services powering AI/ML applications.

You will work with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to productionize LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI solutions. You will leverage Pulumi, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes to implement infra-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and secure, observable systems, while defining reusable patterns and engineering standards to accelerate