Infra Architect - AI Platform & GenAI Infrastructure
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Title: Infra Architect - AI Platform & GenAI Infrastructure
Location: Concord, California (Bay Area Preferred)
Employment Type: FTC with Right-to-Hire (RTH) can be considered.
Pay Rate: $75/hr on C2C
Summary
The candidate combines strong technical depth with the ability to define long-term architecture, influence roadmaps, and lead cross-functional initiatives.
Lead architecture and technical direction for:
- Enterprise GenAI Platform
- Agentic AI Platform
- Model Serving Infrastructure
- Prompt and Evaluation Frameworks
- AI Governance and Guardrails
- Agent Runtime Platforms
- Observability and AI Operations
Multi-Cloud AI Platform
Design and drive architecture across:
- OpenShift AI / RHOAI
- GCP Vertex AI
- Gemini Models
- Azure AI Foundry
- AWS Bedrock
- Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI
Platform Scalability & Resiliency
Lead initiatives involving:
- Capacity planning
- GPU platform strategy
- NVIDIA Super POD architecture
- Multi-region resiliency
- Cloud DR strategy
- Active-active platform architectures
- High availability and disaster recovery
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure and architecture experience.
- 5+ years designing large-scale cloud-native platforms.
- Strong experience with:
- Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Distributed systems
- Cloud architectures
- AI/ML platforms
- API platforms
- Data platforms
- Deep understanding of:
- Generative AI
- RAG architectures
- Agentic AI
- Model Serving
- MLOps
- Experience designing highly available Tier-1 production systems.
Vendor/Sourcing Note
Focus primarily on candidates with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes/OpenShift, AI/ML Platforms, MLOps/AIOps, and Cloud Architecture. Bay Area local candidates are preferred. Strong profiles should be prioritized as this is a fast-moving requirement with vendor competition.