Senior Associate Forward Deployment Engineer (DevOps, AI Deployment)

AI Deployment & DevOps Engineering | Forward Deployed Engineering

Job Summary

A senior DevOps engineer who owns how AI solutions are deployed into a client's environment. As the technical owner for deployment, you will design pipelines and infrastructure, harden AI applications for production, and meet enterprise security and governance requirements on AWS.

Key Responsibilities
- Own the deployment architecture for AI solutions on AWS.
- Design and own CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and release standards across engagements.
- Lead integration of AI solutions into legacy and regulated environments, respecting identity, security, and governance.
- Set up scalable model and agent serving, with the vector and retrieval infrastructure behind it.
- Establish observability, evaluation, and cost controls for AI workloads in production.
- Define a practical approach to security, governance, and responsible AI for deployments.
- Build reusable deployment accelerators, and mentor engineers.




- Bring field learnings and product gaps back to the wider practice.

Required Qualifications
- Substantial DevOps or platform engineering experience with ownership of production deployments.
- Deep CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes experience, with strong Terraform / IaC.
- Robust AWS fluency across deployment-relevant services.
- Strong grounding in identity, security, and networking, and enterprise integration.
- Solid automation skills and a habit of codifying build and run processes.
- Deep, hands-on experience deploying LLM and agentic applications to production (LLMOps), including serving, scaling, retrieval infrastructure, observability, evaluation, and responsible AI.

Preferred Qualifications
- Enterprise AI platforms (Palantir Foundry, Databricks, Snowflake) and MLOps tooling at scale.
- Experience in regulated industries.
- SRE or reliability experience.
- Prior consulting, customer success, or forward-deployed

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