AI Engineer Architecture & Foundry Deployment Location: Houston, TX (Onsite Required)
Position Type: Long-term Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deploy standardized, reusable architectures supporting multiple enterprise AI products.
- Work hands-on within Microsoft Foundry (previously AI Studio), including agent/sub-agent deployment, grounding configuration, and token management.
- Build and maintain Ansible roles to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment of Foundry and Azure resources.
- Use Ansible as an abstraction layer to manage complex, large-scale Azure environments across multiple regions and subscriptions.
- Support enterprise-wide Foundry deployments, including environment separation (prod/test/experimental) and regional/subscription architectures.
- Assist in building automation and integration patterns that streamline AI development and operations.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and platform teams to accelerate standardization efforts.
- Work with Azure-based AI and ML tooling as needed, including Azure ML and AKS.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Strong Software Engineering background, including: Designing production-grade systems Applying reusable patterns, abstractions, and architectural standards
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry, including: Deploying and managing Foundry agents/sub-agents Configuring grounding Managing token limits across regions and subscriptions Multi-region/multi-sub deployment patterns
- AI/ML architecture experience, particularly: Deployment patterns Environment separation and promotion paths (prod/test/experimental)
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Ansible, including: Building Ansible roles Using Ansible as a configuration management and abstraction layer Automating Azure resource deployments via Ansible scripts
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Azure Machine Learning (pipelines, endpoints, registries)
- Traditional ML or data science exposure
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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