AI Platform Operations Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Denver, CO
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering roles with a strong delivery track record.
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Bicep, or ARM — including module design, state management, and reusable patterns.
- Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Container Apps or equivalent.
- Solid working knowledge of Azure core services — compute, networking (VNet, NSG, Private Endpoints), storage, identity (Entra ID), and Key Vault.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling — Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Working knowledge of Git-based workflows, code review practices, and artifact/registry management.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, network, and application layers.
Nice to have
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure Administrator (AZ-104), or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- Experience deploying and operating AI/ML workloads — model endpoints, RAG pipelines, vector databases, or agentic services in production.
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling and practices — Azure Machine Learning, MLflow, Databricks, or equivalent model lifecycle platforms.
- Experience deploying MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or similar integration services connecting AI agents to enterprise systems.
- Exposure to agentic AI frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, or AutoGen from a deployment and operations perspective.
- Experience with GPU compute provisioning, quota management, and inference cost optimization.
- Knowledge of FinOps frameworks and Azure cost optimization practices.
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems such as Microsoft 365, Freshworks ITSM, Workday, NetSuite, or Procore.
- Experience in data center, hyperscale, or infrastructure-intensive industry environments.
Full description
THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.
STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.
THE POSITION:
The DevOps Engineer, AI Platform is responsible for automating, deploying, and operating the infrastructure and delivery pipelines that support STACK’s enterprise AI platform on Azure. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on build and run — not oversight.
Reporting to Head of AI, Enterprise AI & Data Strategy org this individual owns the infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerization, observability, and release automation that allow AI engineers and enterprise application teams to ship agentic AI solutions, RAG pipelines, and integration services reliably and repeatably. The role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and MLOps — turning platform architecture into automated, governed, observable, and cost-efficient environments that teams across the organization build on.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIESInfrastructure Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Build, maintain, and version infrastructure-as-code modules for Azure environments using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and AI platform resources.
- Automate provisioning of AI platform components — Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, ADLS Gen2, and Databricks — as reusable, parameterized deployment patterns.
- Maintain environment parity across development, test, and production, including configuration management, drift detection, and remediation.
- Implement and enforce tagging, naming, and resource organization standards that support governance, chargeback, and lifecycle management.
- Automate routine platform operations — patching, certificate rotation, key and secret rotation, backup validation, and disaster recovery testing.
CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for application code, infrastructure code, container images, and AI/agent deployments.
- Implement automated build, test, security scanning, artifact management, and promotion gates across environments.
- Establish branching strategies, code review standards, and release management practices in partnership with AI engineering and enterprise application teams.