S&C GN - TS&T – Cloud AI Infra Architect - Manager

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Specialise in AI infrastructure consulting to transform the world’s leading organisations by: Helping Clients rethink their AI compute, networking, retrieval, and agent orchestration layers to scale enterprise AI reliably. Enhancing your Skillset with hyperscaler AI infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, MLOps/LLMOps tooling, and agentic AI architecture. Transforming Businesses by designing next-generation AI infrastructure foundations that move clients from AI pilots to enterprise-scale production deployments. Principal Duties & Responsibilities Overview Design and deliver end-to-end AI infrastructure architecture for enterprise clients - setting the architecture vision for compute, networking, retrieval, agent orchestration, and the tooling layers that underpin every AI and agentic workload. Serve as the trusted technical advisor to client architects and technology leads on AI infrastructure decisions, translating architectural choices into clear trade-offs across cost, performance, scalability, and security. This is a design and architecture role, not a hands-on build role. The mandate is to define standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks that engineering teams implement. This role focuses on AI infrastructure, platform engineering, governance, and architecture. It does not focus on model development, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, or AI application development. Applications from AI Engineers, Prompt Engineers, or ML practitioners without infrastructure architecture experience are unlikely to be a strong fit. Key Responsibilities 1. AI Compute & Infrastructure Architecture Design cloud AI infrastructure for enterprise workloads - GPU/CPU compute, Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE), managed ML compute, networking, identity, and security across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Define reference architecture for AI Center of Excellence infrastructure - model hosting, agent environments, and the compute and networking beneath them. Architect compute strategy - GPU SKU selection, GPU economics and capacity planning, provisioned vs pay-as-you-go inference, and shared vs dedicated capacity models. Design AI-specific landing zones with network isolation, private connectivity for AI services, and AI guardrails at the workload boundary. 2. AI Platform Architecture Design enterprise AI platform architectures using Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and GCP Vertex AI. Define model catalog governance, model lifecycle management, platform operating models, and AI self-service enablement patterns. Architect integration patterns between Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, and GCP Vertex AI and the underlying Kubernetes (AKS / EKS / GKE) compute and networking infrastructure. 3. Inference Layer Architecture Architect model serving strategy across managed cloud endpoin