
Senior Technical Consultant - AI Platform Engineer
AHEAD
🇮🇳 India
Remote
Senior
3 weeks ago
- AI
- IaC
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Kubernetes
- RAG
- Devops
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Bicep
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Machine Learning
- CKA
- Azure AI
- Claude
- Technical Writing
- Amazon Bedrock
- Azure OpenAI
- Foundry
- Vertex AI
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- LlamaIndex
- CrewAI
- Cursor
- Claude Code
- VMware
- FinOps
- Health insurance
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Consultant to design and implement enterprise platform solutions across cloud, application, data, infrastructure, and AI workloads. This role combines strong platform engineering fundamentals with modern AI-assisted development practices. The consultant will lead cloud migration and cloud platform modernization initiatives, work directly with customers, lead technical workstreams, build reusable platform capabilities, and use AI coding tools and vibe coding techniques to accelerate solution delivery while maintaining high standards for security, quality, reliability, and governance.
Responsibilities
- Lead customer workshops, technical discovery, architecturediscussions, and solution design.Design and implement scalable platforms for cloud-nativeapplications, data platforms, infrastructure services, and AIenabled workloads.Lead cloud migration and cloud platform modernizationassessments, planning, architecture, execution, and transitionactivities.Design migration strategies, landing zones, modernizationroadmaps, workload waves, cutover plans, and operationalhandoffs.Build reusable platform patterns, automation, self-serviceworkflows, developer tooling, and golden paths.Lead AI-accelerated development initiatives that integrate AI toolsinto customer software development lifecycles, engineeringworkflows, and delivery practices.Drive organization-wide AI enablement for customers throughassessments, pilots, training, playbooks, governance, adoptionroadmaps, and measurement frameworks.Use AI coding assistants and agentic development tools forprototyping, coding, testing, debugging, refactoring, anddocumentation.Apply human review and engineering standards to validate AIgenerated code and solutions.Develop Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, GitOpsworkflows, and cloud automation.Work with containers, Kubernetes, APIs, event-driven systems,observability, security, and cloud-native architectures.Understand LLM, RAG, agent, vector database, model API, and AIapplication integration patterns.Support platform security, governance, reliability, operationalreadiness, and cost optimization.Create reusable accelerators, technical documentation,demonstrations, and reference architectures.Mentor engineers and contribute to internal technical communitiesand enablement.Participate in proposals, estimates, technical presentations, andpre-sales activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, InformationTechnology, or equivalent practical experience.8+ years of professional IT experience.4+ years of experience in cloud, platform engineering, DevOps,automation, application modernization, or related areas.Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.Experience delivering cloud migration and cloud platformmodernization initiatives, including assessment, planning,dependency analysis, landing zones, migration waves, cutover, andvalidation.Experience with Terraform, Bicep or another Infrastructure asCode technology.Experience with CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, automation, andcloud-native application patterns.Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, PowerShell,Bash, or a comparable language.Practical experience using AI coding assistants or agenticdevelopment tools.Understanding of LLMs, generative AI applications, RAG, promptengineering, agents, and model APIs.Ability to review, secure, test, and productionize AI-generatedcode.One or more relevant professional certifications, such as:Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CertifiedKubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.AWS Certified AI Practitioner.Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals or MicrosoftCertified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.Relevant NVIDIA AI, Generative AI, or AI infrastructurecertification.Claude Certified Architect or an equivalent AI architecturecertification.Strong consulting, communication, technical writing, andcustomer-facing skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure OpenAI,Microsoft Foundry, or Google Vertex AI.Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, SemanticKernel, CrewAI, or similar frameworks.Experience with Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code,Devin, Amazon Q Developer, or similar tools.Experience building developer platforms, platform APIs, selfservice portals, or reusable engineering accelerators.Experience with cloud migration tools such as AWS Migration Hubor MGN, Azure Migrate, Google Migration Center, VMware HCX,or comparable technologies.Experience with GitOps, service mesh, policy-as-code, platformsecurity, observability, or FinOps.Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, AI, or securitycertifications.
What Success Looks like:
- Customers receive secure, scalable, and reusable platformsolutions.Customers successfully migrate and modernize workloads andcloud platforms with clear transition and operational plans.Engineering teams improve productivity through automation, selfservice, and responsible AI-assisted development.Platform capabilities support multiple workload types rather thanonly AI workloads.AI tools are used to accelerate delivery without compromisingquality, security, or maintainability.The consultant builds strong customer relationships andcontributes reusable knowledge to the broader practice.
Senior Technical Consultant - AI Platform Engineer · AHEAD