Overview :

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The job opportunity described below is for one of our clients, who has developed a core competence in creating and deploying cost-effective capabilities using an offshore-centric business model.

Position: Engineering Manager

Location: Remote

Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 Months

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

- Engineering Manager & Principal Systems Architect (Agentic Ops Core)
- We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager & Principal Systems Architect to serve as the technical anchor, customer-facing architect, and engineering leader for our enterprise Agentic Ops platform.
- In this player-coach role, you will lead a specialized engineering pod building production grade autonomous runtimes for enterprise IT and Sec Ops. You will own the architectural blueprint, write production code, fine-tune models, and work directly with enterprise customers and technical partners across NVIDIA and Cisco.

Core Responsibilities:

- Architecture & Hands-On Engineering: Lead, design, and personally code an event-driven, high-throughput multi-agent platform in Golang for closed-loop IT self-healing and Sec Ops containment.
- Customer & Partner Advisory: Serve as primary technical lead for enterprise clients and design partners (Cisco, NVIDIA). Lead deep-dive architectural workshops and translate complex operational workflows into multi-agent specifications.
- NVIDIA AI Stack & Inference Acceleration: Architect GPU-accelerated inference pipelines using NVIDIA NIM microservices, NeMo Framework/Guardrails, and TensorRT-LLM across DGX clusters, hybrid cloud, and edge.
- Model Adaptation & Fine-Tuning: Lead data curation and fine-tuning pipelines (PEFT, LoRA/QLoRA, distillation) to adapt open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Deep Seek) for IT/Sec Ops tasks.
- Agent Frameworks & Open-Source Ecosystem: Build durable agent runtimes using Lang Chain, Lang Graph, or custom state machines. Leverage open-source agentic and execution tooling (e.g., Open Claw, Nemoclaw) and local inference engines (vLLM, Ollama).
- Safety, Governance & AI-Native SDLC: Engineer deterministic safety harnesses (dry-run preflights, blast-radius containment, rollbacks) and establish an AI-augmented SDLC (agentic PR reviews, synthetic evals, LLM-as-a-judge).




- Team Leadership & Integration: Recruit, mentor, and lead an elite pod; enforce rigorous code reviews, evals, and Open Telemetry observability while integrating with enterprise substrates (Cisco Cloud Control, Intersight, Nexus, Splunk).

Required Qualifications:

- Experience & Scope: 10+ years architecting scalable distributed systems and backend infrastructure, with 3+ years as a hands-on player-coach leading engineering teams.
- Customer-Facing Acumen: Proven ability to interface with enterprise architects and leaders on technical discovery, system architecture, and complex deployments.
- Core Languages: Deep production mastery of Go (Golang) for high-concurrency, low-latency microservices; strong proficiency in Python for AI/ML pipelines and orchestration.
- NVIDIA AI Stack: Hands-on experience with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NIMs, NeMo Guardrails, TensorRT-LLM, and Triton Inference Server on modern GPU architectures.
- LLM Engineering & Fine-Tuning: Practical experience with fine-tuning toolchains (Hugging Face, PEFT/LoRA, Axolotl, Deep Speed), alignment (DPO/RLHF), quantization, and agent frameworks (Lang Chain, Lang Graph, DSPy).
- Open-Source Tooling: Experience self-hosting open models (vLLM, Ollama) and integrating open-source agentic/browser automation tools (Open Claw, Browser-Use).
- Distributed Systems & Safety: Strong background in event-driven streaming (Kafka, NATS, gRPC), vector/graph databases (pgvector, Qdrant, Neo4j), and zero-trust safety execution guardrails.
- Domain Fluency: Working knowledge of enterprise IT fabrics (SDN, data center networking), observability platforms (Splunk, Thousand Eyes), and SOC incident lifecycles.

Leadership & Role:

- Engineering Manager, Principal Systems Architect, Player-Coach
- Hands-on Technical Leadership, Team Mentoring, Code Reviews
- Customer-Facing Architect, Technical Discovery, Architectural Workshops

Core Languages & Backend

- Golang (Go), Python
- Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture,



Microservices
- High-Concurrency, Low-Latency, High-Throughput
- gRPC, Kafka, NATS

Agentic AI

- Agentic Ops, Multi-Agent Systems, Autonomous Agent
- Lang Chain, Lang Graph, DSPy, Custom State Machines
- Open Claw, Browser-Use
- Closed-Loop Automation, IT Self-Healing, Sec Ops Containment

NVIDIA AI Stack:

- NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NIM, NeMo Framework, NeMo Guardrails TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server
- DGX, GPU-Accelerated Inference

LLM Engineering & Fine-Tuning

- Fine-Tuning, PEFT, LoRA/QLoRA, Distillation, Quantization
- DPO, RLHF, Alignment
- Hugging Face, Axolotl, Deep Speed
- Open-Weight Models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Deep Seek)
- vLLM, Ollama, Self-Hosted LLMs

Data & Storage

- Vector Databases (pgvector, Qdrant), Graph Databases (Neo4j)

Safety & Governance

- Zero-Trust, Safety Guardrails, Dry-Run Preflight
- Blast-Radius Containment, Rollbacks
- LLM-as-a-Judge, Synthetic Evals, Agentic PR Reviews, AI-Native SDLC

Observability & Enterprise Integration

- Open Telemetry, Splunk, Thousand Eyes
- Cisco Cloud Control, Intersight, Nexus
- SDN, Data Center Networking, SOC Incident Lifecycle.

Experience Requirements

- 10+ Years in Distributed Systems / Backend Infrastructure
- 3+ Years Player-Coach / Team Lead
- Enterprise Customer Engagement (Cisco, NVIDIA partners)

Required Competencies

- Must possess excellent communication skills oral and written
- Must possess knowledge of latest technology trends
- Must be a keen learner should be able to drive "Self Learning"
- Must practice principle of "First Time Right"
- Must have an Eye for Details
- Must have high Customer Orientation
- Must be adaptable to working in multiple / matrix work environment
- Must possess good systems thinking
- Must possess positive negotiation, analytical and interpersonal skills. Good leadership & team player qualities.
- High on personal integrity with ability to establish relationships and work in teams and should be
- able to influence stakeholders. Should poses independence, robust ethics and resilience.

Years of Experience:

- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a reputed organization.

Educational Qualification:

- ME (IT, Computer), BE (IT, Computer), MCA, MSC-IT, BCA

Tek Wissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

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