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You will work across the full AI platform stack, from data ingestion and vector databases to retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, agent platforms, and developer-facing APIs, enabling teams to rapidly deliver innovative AI-powered business capabilities. You will collaborate with security, FinOps, platform engineering, data engineering, and application teams to deliver enterprise-grade AI capabilities that are secure, observable, and cost efficient. Your work will span cloud-native AI services, agentic architectures, orchestration frameworks, and responsible AI guardrails. You will play a critical role in designing and implementing solutions based on Model Context Protocol (MCP), enterprise AI Gateway patterns, and modern agent platforms including Amazon Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. You will help establish the enterprise standards for model access, agent execution, governance, observability, and cost optimization while enabling a multi-model AI ecosystem through AI Gateway technologies such as Kong AI Gateway and similar enterprise platforms.\nYou can build and maintain AI platform services:\nDesign, build, and operate enterprise AI platform capabilities supporting Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic workloads.\nDevelop scalable data ingestion pipelines, knowledge ingestion workflows, and AI data services.\nIntegrate vector databases, embeddings, knowledge graphs, and enterprise knowledge repositories with appropriate governance controls.\nDesign and implement retrieval frameworks supporting enterprise search, semantic search, and RAG patterns.\nBuild and operate AI services using Amazon Bedrock, including foundation model integrations, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and inference capabilities.\nDesign and support agentic architectures utilizing AWS AgentCore and other enterprise agent platforms.\nImplement model serving infrastructure for real-time and batch inference workloads.\nEnable secure agentic workflows through Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool orchestration frameworks, and agent-to-agent communication patterns.\nDesign and implement AI Gateway capabilities using technologies such as Kong AI Gateway to provide centralized authentication, routing, governance, observability, rate limiting, and policy enforcement for AI workloads.\nDevelop APIs, SDKs, reusable platform services, and self-service capabilities that accelerate AI adoption across engineering teams.\nYou ensure observability and responsible AI:\nMonitor model performance, application behavior, agent execution, and service reliability.\nImplement logging, tracing, alerting, rollback, and operational recovery mechanisms.\nMonitor AI usage patterns, token consumption, latency, throughput, and AI Gateway telemetry.\nImplement observability solutions that provide visibility into prompts, responses, model behavior, agent interactions, and platform health.\nApply explainability, fairness, governance, and compliance guardrails consistent with Responsible AI principles.\nSupport model evaluation, benchmarking, experimentation, and lifecycle management processes.\nYou have experience embedding security and compliance:\nDesign and implement secure AI platform architectures using cloud-native security controls.\nIntegrate encryption, IAM, secrets management, and audit logging capabilities.\nImplement secure access patterns through AI Gateway platforms including authorization, policy enforcement, prompt security controls, and data protection measures.\nSupport compliance with regulatory and internal governance frameworks, including privacy, security, and Responsible AI requirements.\nPartner with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Data Governance teams to ensure safe and compliant use of enterprise data and 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architectural diagrams, and operational standards.\nMentor team members and help promote adoption of enterprise AI platform capabilities.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed platform technologies or cloud-native systems.\n3+ years of experience building, operating, or supporting AI/ML platforms and services.\nHands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock and enterprise foundation model platforms.\nExperience designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures using vector databases, embeddings, and enterprise knowledge sources.\nExperience building or operating agentic AI systems utilizing AWS AgentCore or comparable agent frameworks.\nExperience designing and implementing solutions based on Model Context Protocol (MCP).\nExperience implementing AI Gateway solutions (e.g., Kong AI Gateway or equivalent) for AI governance, traffic management, observability, and security.\nFamiliarity with agent orchestration frameworks, agent-to-agent communication patterns, and multi-agent architectures.\nStrong understanding of LLM operations including prompt engineering, model evaluation, guardrails, governance, and token optimization.\nProficiency in Python and/or other languages commonly used for AI and platform engineering.\nExperience with AWS cloud services, containerization, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.\nUnderstanding of observability, monitoring, and operational support for AI and agent-based systems.\nExperience implementing security, privacy, governance, and compliance controls in AI environments.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.\nAWS certifications related to AI, Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, or Platform Engineering.\nExperience with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Bedrock Guardrails, Agents for Bedrock, and AWS AgentCore services.\nExperience with Kong AI Gateway or comparable API and AI Gateway technologies.\nExperience implementing MCP servers, tool catalogs, and secure tool execution frameworks.\nExperience with enterprise multi-model strategies spanning Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and other foundation models.\nFamiliarity with AI-specific observability and monitoring platforms.\nExperience implementing Responsible AI frameworks, guardrails, explainability, and model governance processes.\nExperience with FinOps practices and cost optimization for Generative AI workloads.\nFamiliarity with Agile, DevSecOps, and platform engineering practices.\nExperience building enterprise self-service AI platforms and developer enablement capabilities.\nKaleidoscope, an Infosys Company, is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual 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