Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. The AI Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS environments, collaborating closely with development and DevOps teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated provisioning
- Provision and optimize production environments through the development pipeline ensuring optimization for high availability, performance, cost and security
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments, primarily through GitHub Actions
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure uptime across production systems
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements
- Manage cloud services (compute, storage, networking, application services, database) across environments
- Implement security best practices, access control, and compliance standards
- Automate scaling, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
- Continuously optimize infrastructure cost, performance, and reliability
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure / Cloud / DevOps engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms
- Proficiency in Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Experience with Docker containerization and microservices deployment
- Experience in provisioning and managing production-grade scalable applications
- Knowledge of Application Services (App Services, Load Balancers, APIs, etc.)
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles
- Experience with monitoring & logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps)
- Strong Linux/system administration skills
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Experience with IAM, RBAC, and cloud security models (Azure AD, AWS IAM)
- Familiarity with secrets management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
- Understanding of DevSecOps practices and security scanning tools
- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for automation
- Strongly preferred experience with Kubernetes / container orchestration
- Certifications like: AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator / Architect, Terraform Associate
- Experience with multi-cloud environments and cost optimization
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