Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job Title: Senior LLMOps / AI Platform EngineerAtlanta, GAContract to hireHybrid role that requires 3 days onsiteCandidate RequirementsMust-Have Requirement : Reason It MattersAzure cloud experience : George depends on Azure AI/OpenAI, Azure AI Search, networking, monitoring, and environment configuration.Kubernetes experience : Needed for pod health, scaling, deployment troubleshooting, secrets/configuration, and service reliability.Jenkins or CI/CD experience : Needed to own build, release, validation, rollback, and promotion workflows.Argo CD / GitOps experience : Needed to manage environment drift, declarative deployments, sync issues, and auditable release promotion.Observability and incident response : Needed to debug logs, traces, metrics, dashboards, alerts, production incidents, and performance regressions.LLM application understanding : Must understand prompts, tokens, embeddings, RAG, retrieval, context windows, hallucinations, model latency, and rate limits.Python/scripting ability : Needed for automation, eval support, Langfuse integrations, operational scripts, and troubleshooting utilities.Cross-functional communication : Must translate technical AI platform risks into business-readable status, release risk, and recommended action.