AI Platform Engineer
Hybrid · Lousado, Distrito de Braga, Portuguese Republic
Job Summary
Operate, monitor, and continuously improve an enterprise AI-powered document search and Q&A platform deployed on Azure as part of a global Data Science team. Maintain and extend three containerized services (FastAPI backend, Streamlit frontend, APScheduler-based document processing worker). Manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform (App Service, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI deployments, Blob Storage, PostgreSQL, Redis, Key Vault). Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for automated container builds, infrastructure deployments, LLM evaluation runs, and release management. Onboard new AI use cases and provisioning workflows from configuration to Azure resource creation. Develop and operate document scraping and processing pipelines ingesting content from SharePoint, internal wikis, and web portals into Azure AI Search. Support LLM quality assurance via automated evaluation pipelines and observability tooling. Collaborate with Data Scientists to integrate new models and agents into the platform's agentic query pipeline.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or similar studies
- Minimum 2 years of IT or industry working experience in a DevOps, MLOps, or platform engineering role
- Solid experience with Python application development
- Experience with containerization using Docker, including multi-stage build patterns and container image registries
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure (App Service, Blob Storage, AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry)
- Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- Good knowledge of CI/CD processes and hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or comparable tooling
- Strong communication skills; ability to work effectively with Data Scientists, business stakeholders, and IT teams
- Proficient English language skills (written and spoken)
- Experience in working in a multinational company is a plus
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