Sr AI Platform Engineer

Sr AI Platform Engineer No Corp to Corp, 3rd Party or IC reputed company We are seeking a highly reputed company Senior AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the foundational infrastructure required to securely reputed company, govern, monitor, and reputed company reputed company AI capabilities. The initial 3 6 month reputed company will be on establishing a secure reputed company reputed company for AI coding agents, including reputed company Copilot and Claude reputed company, using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) deployment patterns. Model reputed company will be routed through controlled reputed company environments utilizing Azure AI reputed company and AWS Bedrock. Following the initial implementation, this role will expand into a broader reputed company AI platform supporting governed model reputed company, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, secure agent runtimes, AI gateways, observability, AI FinOps, and reusable agent-development platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong experience across reputed company infrastructure, DevOps, AI/ML platforms, reputed company, governance, and reputed company architecture. Key Responsibilities AI Coding-Agent Platform Design and implement secure, reusable BYOK infrastructure patterns for reputed company Copilot and Claude reputed company. reputed company model requests through company-controlled reputed company environments rather than unmanaged vendor defaults. Administer and govern reputed company Copilot reputed company environments, including licensing, reputed company policies, configuration, usage visibility, and coordination with reputed company/reputed company 365 administrators. reputed company Azure AI reputed company and AWS Bedrock for approved model reputed company, routing, reputed company policies, and secure connectivity. reputed company infrastructure templates, sample repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and reputed company documentation. Design secure developer environments incorporating private networking, identity federation, secrets management, and least-privilege reputed company. Build reusable platform capabilities that can support reputed company reputed company AI applications. AI Gateway & MCP Gateway Design and operate an AI Gateway / Azure API Management (APIM) capability supporting: Model routing Authentication and authorization Model allow-lists reputed company budgets reputed company limiting reputed company breakers Content filtering Usage attribution Build an reputed company MCP Gateway that securely brokers reputed company between AI agents and reputed company data, reputed company, repositories, developer tools, ticketing systems, and approved reputed company platforms. Establish governance processes for MCP servers, reputed company, tools, and data connectors. Implement connector reputed company, registration, approval, versioning, monitoring, and decommissioning processes. Enforce trust boundaries reputed company data classification, tenant isolation, cross-reputed company routing, and egress. reputed company, Governance & Compliance Implement technical controls governing model eligibility, developer reputed company, approved use cases, reputed company/response handling, data loss prevention, and tool authorization. Partner with reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company Architecture, and Federal stakeholders to establish appropriate controls. Support compliance requirements associated with NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, FISMA, and DoD reputed company reputed company, where applicable. Design secure patterns for handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Implement appropriate tenant selection, encryption, authorized model endpoints, audit logging, and controlled egress. Establish reputed company-review, approval, exception, escalation, and rollback processes for higher-reputed company AI use cases. Observability, AgentOps & AI FinOps reputed company reputed company telemetry for AI platforms, including model calls, tool calls, data reputed company, latency, errors, reputed company consumption, cost, policy reputed company, and team/user attribution. Establish dashboards and reporting for AI usage and financial management. reputed company: reputed company consumption Model and API usage Cost attribution Budget reputed company Anomalies Adoption trends Forecast versus actual spend Showback/chargeback reputed company AI evaluation and reputed company-control processes, including test harnesses, regression testing, red-team scenarios, hallucination/failure detection, and release gates. Establish production SLOs, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response, reputed company-cause analysis, and reputed company platform hardening. Developer Enablement Create developer reputed company guides, sample applications, approved model-selection guidance, and training materials. reputed company reusable reference architectures for: Coding-agent workflows Secure reputed company and data handling Repository reputed company Pull request/reputed company review workflows Tool-use guardrails Partner with reputed company Architecture, reputed company Engineering, reputed company, SRE, Developer Productivity, reputed company/reputed company, and application engineering teams. Establish engineering standards for AI agents, BYOK, MCP, gateway policies, observability, and secure AI development. reputed company AI Platform Expansion As the platform matures, expand capabilities reputed company coding agents to support reputed company AI applications and agent platforms. Build and operate reusable agent-development platforms using Azure AI reputed company and AWS AgentCore. Establish secure templates, deployment pipelines, runtime patterns, testing/evaluation workflows, and operating standards. reputed company governed model reputed company through centralized gateways and policy enforcement. reputed company reputed company applications and agents to securely reputed company approved systems through MCP. Establish model, tenant, data-classification, reputed company, usage-metering, and cost-management controls. Help define and execute the long-term reputed company AI platform roadmap. Required Qualifications 8+ years of experience in software engineering, reputed company engineering, reputed company, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering. At least 3+ years of reputed company reputed company/reputed company experience. At least 1 2+ years of experience supporting AI/ML, LLM, reputed company, or reputed company systems. Strong hands-on Python development experience. Strong infrastructure-as-reputed company experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent. Experience with containers, reputed company and/or serverless architectures. Strong understanding of CI/CD, secrets management, private networking, and reputed company identity. Hands-on experience with: Azure AI reputed company Azure API Management Azure Monitor / Application Insights reputed company Entra ID Azure Key reputed company Azure Private reputed company Azure Policy Working knowledge of: AWS Bedrock AWS GovCloud AWS IAM CloudWatch AWS networking Multi-reputed company/cross-reputed company architectures Experience designing or operating LLM gateways, model-routing reputed company, API gateways, MCP servers/gateways, tool/function calling, RAG pipelines, or agent orchestration platforms. Experience administering or governing reputed company Copilot reputed company, including reputed company management, licensing, policy configuration, and usage reporting. Strong reputed company architecture knowledge, including: Least privilege RBAC/ABAC Conditional reputed company Encryption Egress controls Audit logging Data classification Secrets management Understanding of regulated reputed company environments and frameworks such as NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP, FISMA, and CUI requirements. Experience implementing observability for reputed company systems, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, SLOs, incident response, and operational runbooks. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical architecture, reputed company reputed company, cost, compliance, and operational trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications Experience with reputed company Copilot reputed company, reputed company Copilot BYOK, Claude reputed company, reputed company SDKs, reputed company/Azure reputed company reputed company, or AWS Bedrock. Experience with MCP, A2A, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, reputed company, reputed company, AWS AgentCore, or similar AI orchestration frameworks. Experience developing AI gateways with: Model allow-lists Content safety reputed company-injection defenses Usage metering Model routing reputed company limiting reputed company breakers Cost attribution Experience with reputed company reputed company, Defender for reputed company, reputed company/SIEM, policy-as-reputed company, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, Arize, LangSmith, or similar AI observability/evaluation technologies. Experience supporting the Defense Industrial reputed company (DIB), Federal environments, GCC High, Azure reputed company, AWS GovCloud, or CUI workloads. Experience implementing reputed company or AI showback/chargeback models. Experience with AI FinOps, reputed company cost management, reputed company economics, cost allocation, budget controls, forecasting, reputed company detection, and financial reporting. Experience owning reputed company platform roadmaps, operating models, reputed company processes, SLOs, runbooks, and stakeholder communications. Preferred Certifications reputed company Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert reputed company Azure reputed company Associate reputed company Azure reputed company Engineer Associate AWS reputed company Architect AWS reputed company Specialty AWS Machine Learning certification reputed company Copilot, reputed company Actions, or reputed company Advanced reputed company certification FinOps Certified Practitioner Terraform or reputed company certification CISSP CCSP reputed company reputed company+ Comparable reputed company, AI, reputed company, platform, or FinOps certifications First-Year reputed company Measures reputed company the first 12 months, the successful candidate will be expected to establish measurable reputed company capabilities including: Coding-Agent BYOK reputed company Approved BYOK reference architectures for reputed company Copilot and Claude reputed company. Secure model reputed company through Azure AI reputed company and AWS Bedrock. AI Gateway Operational AI Gateway/APIM enforcing model reputed company, routing, reputed company budgets, logging, cost attribution, and policy controls. MCP Gateway reputed company MCP reputed company patterns implemented for approved systems with connector reputed company, reputed company controls, audit logging, and lifecycle management. Governance & Compliance Operational model-reputed company policies, data-classification controls, CUI handling patterns, audit trails, reputed company evidence, and exception workflows. Observability & AI FinOps Common dashboards providing visibility into adoption, reputed company usage, model/API consumption, cost attribution, forecasts, anomalies, budget reputed company, policy exceptions, reliability, and operational health. Developer Enablement Repeatable reputed company patterns that allow development teams to adopt approved AI capabilities without bypassing reputed company, architecture, or compliance requirements. reputed company AI Platform Expansion of the coding-agent reputed company into reusable model-reputed company, MCP, and agent-development capabilities supporting broader reputed company AI applications. Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior/staff-level platform engineer who can reputed company the gap between AI engineering, reputed company infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, and reputed company governance. You should be comfortable moving from architecture and design into implementation, automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and operational support. You will be expected to build secure, reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions and to work effectively with engineering, reputed company, architecture, compliance, and business stakeholders. This position is particularly reputed company suited for an engineer who has experience building reputed company AI platforms in regulated or highly secure environments and understands how to reputed company innovation, reputed company, governance, developer productivity, reliability, and cost. SES hires W2 benefitted and non-benefitted consultants. Our contract employee benefits include group medical dental reputed company life LT and ST disability reputed company, 21 days of accrued reputed company time off, 401k, tuition reimbursement, reputed company bonuses, reputed company overtime, and more. Please contact me to reputed company the details of this position reputed company. *Please reputed company resume directly to for immediate consideration - rstarinieri at sesc .com I look reputed company to speaking with you soon! Robin Starinieri Director of reputed company Systems Engineering Services Apply To This Job