Principal Technical Consultant - AI/Cloud Platform Engineering

9 hours, 59 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1K-5K
$43M raised

Description

  • Translate client business and operational challenges into Azure, migration, or AI agent platform solutions.
  • Lead junior and mid-level consultants by setting technical direction, reviewing work, and mentoring team members.
  • Scope workstreams, define deliverables, estimate effort, and manage engagement delivery with account teams.
  • Build and maintain client relationships while identifying expansion opportunities.
  • Present technical recommendations and tradeoffs to client engineering leaders, executives, and governance boards.
  • Lead Azure assessments, landing zone deployments, migration planning, hybrid connectivity, and FinOps initiatives.
  • Design and deploy private, governed Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio environments.
  • Build GitHub Actions promotion pipelines with automated testing, evaluation thresholds, and approval gates.
  • Develop agents using the Foundry SDK and Copilot Studio, and establish pipeline-based ALM.
  • Create architecture documents, runbooks, roadmaps, governance packages, and enablement sessions for client teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering or technical consulting experience, including 5+ years delivering Azure infrastructure, landing zones, or migrations.
  • At least 18 months of experience delivering generative AI or agent systems to production.
  • Experience leading small consulting or engineering teams on client engagements.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones, Azure Migrate, enterprise networking, and workload right-sizing.
  • Strong knowledge of Azure compute, storage, networking, databases, containers, Entra ID, RBAC, private endpoints, private DNS, and managed identities.
  • Hands-on Microsoft Foundry experience, including the azure-ai-projects Python SDK, agent deployments, model catalog management, and Azure AI Search.
  • Hands-on Copilot Studio experience with generative orchestration, environment administration, DLP, connector governance, and solution-based ALM.
  • Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM and GitHub Actions using environments, protection rules, and OIDC federation.
  • Experience designing evaluation datasets, baselines, and thresholds for AI agent promotion.
  • Strong consulting communication skills, including technical documentation and executive, security, and governance presentations.
  • Preferred: relevant Microsoft, Terraform Associate, or GitHub Actions certifications.
  • Preferred: experience in regulated industries, Microsoft Purview, Application Insights, Power Platform administration, or AI governance boards.

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