Senior AI Platform Engineer — Hybrid Cloud Innovator

Absa Group; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer (Cloud) to design, build, operate and optimise enterprise AI infrastructure across AWS Bedrock, Databricks AI, Azure Foundry, Hugging Face, and GPU clusters. You will own cost governance, security, observability, and scalable platform components in a multi-region, regulated environment.

Leading a high-performance team, you will drive architectural standards, IaC practices, and collaboration with business units across ten countries, ensuring

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline (CS/DS/Math/Engineering).
• Cloud certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS ML Specialty, or Azure AI Engineer Associate.
• FinOps Foundation Practitioner or equivalent.
• Security: CCSP or AWS Security Specialty.
• IaC: Terraform Associate or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and deployment of Absa's multi-cloud AI platform stack.
• Define and maintain infrastructure-as-code standards for multi-cloud deployments.
• Own AI compute cost models and FinOps reporting across units.
• Define AI platform SLAs/OLAs and observability for production workloads.
• Design and enforce zero-trust security, data residency, and governance.

Skills

AI Platform Engineering

AI FinOps

Platform Observability

Zero Trust Security

Agentic AI Infrastructure

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)

Multi-cloud Architecture

Education

Postgraduate degree in Computer Science / Data Science / Mathematics / Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

LangGraph / Foundry Agent Service

Databricks AI

AWS Bedrock

Azure Foundry

Hugging Face

Job description

Absa Group seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer (Cloud) to design, build, operate and optimise enterprise AI infrastructure across AWS Bedrock, Databricks AI, Azure Foundry, Hugging Face, and GPU clusters. You will own cost governance, security, observability, and scalable platform components in a multi-region, regulated environment.

Leading a high-performance team, you will drive architectural standards, IaC practices, and collaboration with business units across ten countries, ensuring