Lead AI Platform Engineer

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Location :
Atlanta, Georgia, Dallas, TX, Mahwah, NJ flexible

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for enterprise AI platforms that enable the development, deployment, and operation of intelligent applications, agents, and automation solutions. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable platform capabilities on Red Hat Open Shift while ensuring reliability, security, performance, and compliance across the technology stack.

The successful candidate will lead platform engineering initiatives, establish technical standards and best practices, drive automation and operational excellence, and work closely with infrastructure, security, architecture, and application teams to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI capabilities.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise AI platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for Open Shift-based platform environments supporting AI and intelligent automation workloads.
• Define engineering standards, operational processes, and platform governance practices.
• Build and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available platform services.
• Develop automation for platform provisioning, deployment, upgrades, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Establish observability, logging, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance management processes.
• Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and application teams to ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Support development teams in onboarding, deployment, and operationalization of AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive platform reliability through proactive risk management, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform enhancements that improve scalability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform — compute, networking, IAM, and Cloud Dev Ops tooling (CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Build, artifact management)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or Linux system administration experience.
• 3+ years of technical leadership or project management experience.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Red Hat Open Shift container platforms, including Open Shift 3.x/4.x, Kubernetes, Docker, RHEL/CoreOS, and containerized application platforms.
• Experience with Istio Service Mesh, platform networking, container storage and enterprise platform operations.
• Experience building, operating, and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms with strong reliability, scalability, and operational practices.
• Experience developing code, using source code repositories, and implementing Dev Ops engineering concepts.
• Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Ansible, Ansible Tower, shell scripting, and Jenkins Pipeline.
• Experience with monitoring,…