Senior Azure Data / MLOps / AI Platform Engineer

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Good understanding of Azure services such as Compute, Storage, Event Hub, Event Subscription, Storage Queue, and PaaS services.
• Basic understanding of Azure AI Foundry and AI-related Azure service setup.
• Good Azure networking basics: VNet, subnet, routing, and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, especially:
• Terraform state
• plan / apply
• troubleshooting failures
• migration risks
• Terraform Enterprise concepts
• Strong Python coding capability, not just basic scripting.
• Experience using Python for API integration, automation, JSON/YAML handling, and internal tooling.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Comfortable with YAML and JSON.
• Ability to troubleshoot Azure infrastructure/platform issues.
• Ability to collect logs/evidence and coordinate with network/app/Microsoft support teams.
• Basic awareness of agentic AI / LLM concepts.
• Awareness of security and cost best practices.

Good to Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Harness.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise.
• Exposure to LangGraph / LangChain.
• Exposure to agentic AI workflows or skill creation.
• Exposure to Claude or enterprise LLM integrations.
• Knowledge of Azure ML Workspace, model registry, and managed endpoints.
• MLOps / LLMOps knowledge.
• FinOps / Azure cost optimization experience.
• Azure certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500.

Screening Priority:

Azure Cloud + Terraform + Python Coding + CI/CD Troubleshooting + YAML/JSON + Basic Agentic AI Awareness

🚀 Hiring: Senior Azure Platform Engineer | Azure | Terraform | Kubernetes

📍 Location: India

💼 Employment: Full-Time | Long-Term

🎯 Experience: 10+ Years | 8+ Years Hands-on Azure

🔑 What We’re Looking For

▪️ Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Platform & Landing Zone Architecture

▪️ Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform & reusable IaC modules

▪️ Expertise in Kubernetes, Helm & container platforms

▪️ Strong understanding of Azure Networking, Entra ID, RBAC & Azure Policy

▪️ Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions / Azure Pipelines & CI/CD

▪️ Hands-on GitOps & ArgoCD experience

▪️ Strong observability skills with Prometheus, Grafana & Azure Monitor

▪️ Experience designing and supporting microservices architectures

▪️ Knowledge of security, policy-as-code and IaC security scanning

▪️ Exposure to Azure Arc / Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI is a plus

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.

Our India Global Capability Center isn't just supporting global operations—we’re leading global innovation. After scaling rapidly into a best-in-class hub, we deliver the product innovation and enterprise capabilities that accelerate our global growth, profitability, and scale. As we expand Smartsheet India, we’re searching for Senior AI/ML Ops Engineers who crave variety and ownership. You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple teams and disciplines, building a versatile skillset while solving the complex challenges of a global platform.

You Will:

• Designing, Developing and overseeing the strategy and architecture of scalable and reliable AI/ML Ops platforms / pipelines
• Model Deployment: Package and deploy AI/ML services to production, ensuring they are reproducible and interpretable
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and implement automated CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipelines to accelerate model deployment using tools
• Infrastructure Management: Provision and optimize infrastructure for training and serving, utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms
• Monitoring & Observability : Implement post-deployment monitoring for model performance, data drift, and latency using tools. Experience in Monte Carlo is preferable
• Automation: Automate retraining and data pipeline workflows to ensure models stay accurate over time.
• Manage the deployment of foundation models, fine-tuning workflows, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) stacks (Vector DBs, Knowledge Graph. Experience with AWS Bedrock is preferable
• Resource Optimization: Manage GPU/CPU utilization to minimize cloud costs while maintaining low-latency inference for users
• Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers to bridge the gap between model development and production.
• Version Control & Governance: Manage versioning for data, code, and models using tools like MLflow.
• Security & Compliance: Implementing data security measures, ensuring compliance with data governance policies, and protecting sensitive data
• Technology Evaluation and Innovation: Staying abreast of emerging data technologies and exploring opportunities for innovation to improve the organisation’s data infrastructure
• Troubleshooting and Problem Solving: Diagnosing and resolving complex data-related issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of the data platform
• Perform other duties as assigned

You Have:

• Enterprise SaaS software solutions with high availability and scalability
• Solution handling large scale structured and unstructured data from varied data sources
• Experience in building and maintaining AI/ML Ops platform systems ensuring scalability, reliability, efficiency and security
• Working with Product engineering team to influence designs with data, AI and analytics use cases in mind
• In depth experience in System design, AI/ML Frameworks and tools involving large Petabytes of data with Databricks Lakehouse ecosystem
• AI/MLOps workflows on Databricks , MLFlow, Mosaic AI Agent Framework, Unity Catalog, Vector Search, Knowledge Graph
• Knowledge of AI/ML frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph for AI/ML Ops pipeline integration
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Experience in AWS hosted data platform is preferable
• Programming languages like Python and SQL
• Modern software engineering practices like Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAC tools (Preferably Terraform), Observability, monitoring and alerting
• Solution Cost Optimisations and design to cost
• Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis

Get to Know Us:

At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. 

If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

Job application link : https://grnh.se/z7qx2ehx1us

Title                                 : Senior AI Platform / MLOps Engineer

Experience                    : 6+ years

Work type                      : Chennai - Work from Office/other locations - Remote

Employment Type      : Full Time

Notice Period              : Immediate

Work Day                     :Mon to Fri

Key Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and operate OpenShift, NVIDIA GPU operator, OpenShift AI, and NIM microservices on 12× RTX PRO 6000 across two servers; single-node and HA control-plane topologies
• Serving configuration and tuning: quantized model deployment (FP8/FP4), replica balancing, batching, KV-cache and context management
• Azure GPU build environments: provisioning, cost control, parity with the on-prem stack via pinned container/model versions; cloud-to-factory migration with parity regression
• GitOps CI/CD, container registry, artifact/model versioning, environment promotion; observability and audit wiring (Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Benchmark automation: load harness, p50/p95/p99 latency, tokens/sec, GPU utilization; the capacity report data pipeline
• Platform upgrade procedure with evaluation-regression gates; deployment runbook as a first-class deliverable

Technical Skills:

• 6+ years infrastructure/platform engineering with 3+ years production Kubernetes; OpenShift experience strongly preferred
• Hands-on GPU inference serving in production: NIM, Triton, vLLM, or TensorRT-LLM — you have sized, deployed, and tuned LLM serving on real GPUs and can talk memory-bandwidth trade-offs
• GitOps fluency (ArgoCD/Flux), infrastructure-as-code, container internals; comfortable in air-gapped/proxy-restricted enterprise networks
• Observability depth: metrics, traces, log pipelines; has built performance test harnesses, not just run them

• Azure or AWS GPU compute operations experience

Strongly preferred

• NVIDIA GPU operator and AI Enterprise stack specifics; KServe; Milvus or pgvector operations; VAST/NFS/S3 storage integration; banking or other regulated-environment delivery

About Ampera: 

Ampera Technologies, a purpose driven Digital IT Services with primary focus on supporting our client with their Data, AI / ML, Accessibility and other Digital IT needs. We also ensure that equal opportunities are provided to Persons with Disabilities Talent. Ampera Technologies has its Global Headquarters in Chicago, USA and its Global Delivery Center is based out of Chennai, India. We are actively expanding our Tech Delivery team in Chennai and across India. We offer exciting benefits for our teams, such as 1) Hybrid and Remote work options available, 2) Opportunity to work directly with our Global Enterprise Clients, 3) Opportunity to learn and implement evolving Technologies, 4) Comprehensive healthcare, and 5) Conducive environment for Persons with Disability Talent meeting Physical and Digital Accessibility standards 

Hiring for AI Engineer

Exp: 6 - 8 yrs

Edu : BE/B.Tech/MCA

Work Location : Pune

Skill Set:

- Total experience ranging from 6–8 years in software engineering/AI roles

- Min 5 years strong programming experience in Python is a MUST

- Min 3.5 years hands-on experience in AI with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI frameworks

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud / DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Azure PaaS services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure DevOps. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting highly available and scalable cloud applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Azure networking, security, monitoring, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure PaaS services including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, and related services.
• Design, configure, and administer Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, secrets, config maps, and autoscaling.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain build and release pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep templates.
• Build and manage Docker containers and container registries using Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments where required.
• Configure Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, load balancers, Application Gateway, and Azure DNS.
• Implement Azure security best practices including Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secrets management, and network security.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Container Insights.
• Automate infrastructure and operational activities using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python.
• Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, pipeline, networking, and Azure infrastructure issues.
• Work closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
• Participate in production deployments, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.

Required Skills

Azure

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Azure PaaS services such as:
• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure API Management
• Good understanding of Azure networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and governance.

AKS / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with AKS.
• Kubernetes architecture and administration.
• Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces.
• Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and cluster autoscaling.
• Container troubleshooting and performance

Job Description

• Design and Implement Data Solutions: Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable and secure Azure-

based data platforms, ensuring integration with various data sources and business systems. Deliver at least 2 major

projects every year with a focus on data engineering best practices.

• Optimize Data Pipelines: Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and

Azure Synapse, with an emphasis on automating data workflows. Achieve a 20% reduction in pipeline execution times

within the first 6 months.

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage and maintain the Azure data environment, ensuring high availability, disaster

recovery, and cost optimization. Track and improve system uptime to exceed 99.9% reliability.

• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with data scientists, data analysts, and business stakeholders to translate

business requirements into efficient data solutions. Facilitate at least 3 collaborative sessions per quarter to address key

business use cases.

• Ensure Data Security & Compliance: Implement data security measures, ensuring compliance with industry regulations

(GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) and company policies. Achieve and maintain full compliance in all data environments within the first

quarter of onboarding.

• Continuous Learning & Knowledge Sharing: Stay up-to-date with emerging Azure technologies, and mentor junior

engineers to promote knowledge sharing. Complete 1 Azure certification annually and conduct at least 2 internal

knowledge-sharing sessions per year.

• Sound knowledge of data governance practices, data quality management, and data security principles.

• Play a pivotal role in shaping our organization's data-driven journey, driving innovation through data analytics and insights.

• Optimize data storage, processing and retrieval mechanisms for performance, cost, and scalability using data storage

services (such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database, etc.), data processing services (such as Azure Data Bricks,

Azure Synapse, etc.) and data visualization (PowerBI, Qlik, etc.) & integration services (Data API builder, logic apps, etc.)

• Monitor and troubleshoot data platform performance, identify and resolve issues, and provide recommendations for

continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment, configuration, and monitoring processes using Azure DevOps,

PowerShell, or other relevant tools.

• Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in cloud data services and provide recommendations on adopting

new technologies or features to enhance the data platform.

• Document technical designs, procedures, and guidelines for data platform engineering and operations

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Job Experience • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced

degree preferred.

• Proven 6-10 years experience in playing platform engineer or admin role

• Experience with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, or similar

frameworks.

• Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts and experience with cloud

infrastructure management and provisioning.

• Solid understanding of network security concepts and technologies (such as

firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention systems, etc.) and data security

concepts and technologies (such as access controls, encryption, observability,

privacy laws/regulations, etc.)

• Experience in a Retail setup is preferred.

Required Skills The position will require someone with the following:

• Strategic Planning

Public

• Communication and Collaboration

• Problem Solving Skills A/B testing & experimentation

• SQL, BI tools, and storytelling with data

We are looking for a hands-on Azure DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise Azure environments, automate infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and support cloud modernization initiatives.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement & support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Perform TFS / Azure DevOps Server → Azure DevOps Services migration

• Build & manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Support Azure cloud infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring & production environments

• Drive cloud migration, application modernization & platform transformation initiatives

• Work with Terraform, containerization, DevSecOps & cloud automation

• Troubleshoot infrastructure/deployment issues and support incident & on-call operations

• Create technical documentation, runbooks and deployment standards

🎯 Mandatory Requirements

✅ AZ-204 – Azure Developer Associate – Mandatory

✅ 5–8 years total IT experience

✅ 3+ years hands-on Azure DevOps / Azure Infrastructure experience

✅ Strong experience in CI/CD & Azure DevOps

✅ Hands-on experience with TFS / Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services migration

✅ Strong understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure & cloud operations

✅ Experience with IaC, provisioning & infrastructure automation

✅ Exposure to cloud/data migration and application modernization

✅ Experience supporting Azure networking, security & monitoring

✅ Experience in production support / managed services / cloud operations

✅ Willingness to work UK/US shifts and participate in on-call support

⭐ Preferred / Optional

• AZ-400 – Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert

• AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate

• HashiCorp Terraform Associate

• Container platforms, orchestration & DevSecOps experience

🎓 Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or related field.

Job Title : Data Engineer – Databricks

Experience : 6+ Years

Location : Noida / Hyderabad / Chennai / Pune / Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Shift : IST (Normal Shift)

Job Summary :

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, Python, and Spark to build and optimize scalable data pipelines and support AI/ML model deployments. The ideal candidate should have experience working with cloud-based data platforms and preferably possess exposure to the Healthcare domain.

Required Skills :

• Databricks (Preferred)
• Snowflake
• Python
• Apache Spark
• SQL
• Azure Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Apache Airflow
• GitHub & CI/CD Pipelines
• AI/ML Model Deployment
• Data Analytics

Preferred :

• Experience in the Healthcare domain.
• Strong understanding of scalable data engineering architectures and best practices.

Job Summary/ Job Opportunity:

This is an excellent opportunity for an ideal candidate with a high level of technical proficiency and meeting the below mentioned criteria -- • Strong experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs). • Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade solutions using Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex, and Agentic AI frameworks. • Strong expertise in Python, API development, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. • Experience designing and implementing RAG solutions, vector databases, embeddings, knowledge retrieval systems, and AI copilots. • Experience with Azure cloud services, MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and model lifecycle management. • Strong understanding of AI governance, responsible AI, security, compliance, and model evaluation frameworks. • Ability to lead technical discussions, provide architectural recommendations, mentor team members, and interact with business stakeholde

Key Objectives and Major Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement scalable AI/ML and Generative AI solutions for enterprise applications. • Lead development of intelligent applications leveraging LLMs, RAG pipelines, AI agents, and document intelligence solutions. • Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. • Design and optimize data pipelines, vector search solutions, embeddings, and retrieval mechanisms. • Build and maintain REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native AI applications. • Ensure best practices in coding standards, performance optimization, security, scalability, and maintainability. • Drive AI solution deployment using MLOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability frameworks. • Perform code reviews, mentor junior developers, and contribute to capability building within the team

Key Capabilities and Competencies:

Knowledge, Skills, Qualification and Experience

• Degree in B.Tech/M.Tech (Computer Science/IT/Data Science) or related discipline preferred, with 3–4 years of relevant experience in AI/ML, GenAI and total 5-7 years of experience. • Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and GenAI frameworks/tools. • Strong understanding of machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, prompt engineering, and techniques like RAG and fine-tuning. • Experience with data processing, embeddings, vector databases, APIs, and building scalable AI driven applications. • Good communication skills, ability to work on multiple projects, and eagerness to learn and adapt to evolving AI technologies.