Senior Cloud & AI Solutions Engineer

Persistent Systems; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Career development

Education support

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Job summary

Persistent is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will partner with customers to design, build, and deploy scalable cloud, AI, and enterprise software solutions that address complex business challenges and accelerate digital transformation.

Role spans full-stack engineering, cloud platforms, DevSecOps, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, and data engineering. You will translate emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes, working with multi-cloud and modern data

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience as Forward Deployed Engineer or similar.
• Design and develop full-stack applications using modern web technologies, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Build scalable, multi-cloud platforms with cloud-native and containerized architectures.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD, GitOps, MLOps, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop full-stack applications using modern web technologies, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Build and operate enterprise-grade platforms using multi-cloud, cloud-native, serverless, containerized, and Kubernetes-based architectures.
• Implement and improve engineering automation across CI/CD, GitOps, MLOps, IaC, observability, and release engineering.
• Develop AI solutions spanning Generative AI, ML, and MLOps with secure AI practices.
• Shape enterprise architecture and modernization initiatives using TOGAF, cloud-native patterns, and secure integration architectures.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies through PoCs and modernization programs.
• Enable AI, analytics, and BI via data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time streaming, and data-driven apps.

Skills

Full-stack development

API design

Microservices

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

MLOps

AI engineering

Data engineering

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Persistent is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will partner with customers to design, build, and deploy scalable cloud, AI, and enterprise software solutions that address complex business challenges and accelerate digital transformation.

Role spans full-stack engineering, cloud platforms, DevSecOps, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, and data engineering. You will translate emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes, working with multi-cloud and modern data