AI Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Job

As an AI Platform Engineer you own the AI platform layer that powers teams across Allianz Technology globally. You will build and operate the runtime, governance, and developer experience that product and service teams use, from model routing, caching, shared RAG services, MCP interfaces, Spec Kits, AI frameworks, Skills registries, to prompt management.

You ensure AI agents and workloads run in a responsible (AI FinOps) and technically robust environment, with integrated safety. As an expert of the AI tools and framework landscape, you define what becomes an AI standard. In short, you form the runtime and governance backbone that AI Use Case Delivery and service teams build upon.

What you do

• Design, build, and operate the AI platform runtime (Kubernetes-based services, gateways, and routing) including model routing, caching, shared RAG components, and prompt/skills management.
• Provide a plug-and-play surface for teams with AI FinOps, quotas, usage metering, and safety/compliance guardrails built in.
• Define and maintain platform standards (frameworks, SDKs, Spec Kits, MCP interfaces), curating the AI tool landscape and managing lifecycles from sandbox to standardization or retirement.
• Implement platform-wide observability (metrics, logs, traces), SLOs, cost and performance instrumentation, and incident response processes.
• Partner with AI Gateway, governance owners, hyperscalers, AI frontier labs for regulated industry features, terms of service and roadmap influence.
• Optimize platform scalability, reliability, and cost across regions and environments; drive capacity planning, release automation, and risk recovery.

What you bring

• Proven track record building & operating AI or developer platforms into production scale, ideally in regulated or large-scale environments (banking, large SaaS, tech).
• Hands-on platform builder with an enablement mindset with experience in shipping platform capabilities used by multiple teams.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, networking), MLOps/LLMOps stacks, vector databases/embedding stores, routing/caching layers, and identity/risk management.
• Strong software engineering skills (e.g., Python/TypeScript/Go), infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD, and SRE practices for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Experience implementing governance, compliance, safety guardrails, and AI FinOps (quotas, budgeting, and policy enforcement) at the platform layer.
• Pragmatic product sense with excellent vendor evaluation and partnership skills; comfortable making decisions under ambiguity and collaborating across functions.
• Fluency in English
• Familiarity with Machine learning is a strong advantage.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

104556 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent