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Cognizant

cognizant.com
cognizant.com · HQ: Teaneck, United States · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Engineering Services · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Systems Integrators · 5000+ employees · Est. 1994 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 1354, 230 new
HQ: Teaneck, United States · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Engineering Services · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Systems Integrators · 5000+ employees · Est. 1994 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 1354, 230 new
Cognizant is an American information technology services and consulting company founded in 1994 as an in-house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It builds, integrates and operates software and infrastructure for large enterprises, with particularly deep positions in healthcare, financial services, insurance and life sciences, delivered by a global workforce of more than three hundred thousand people concentrated in India. Listed on Nasdaq, the company competes with the large Indian and global systems integrators and has reoriented its offerings around cloud migration, data platforms and AI-assisted engineering.
Verified live · 1 hour ago Sponsors in US, IE 2 days ago Hiring now · 86%

GenAI Architect

Staff+ · 10+ years exp · Chennai · Remote (India) · Full-Time · Architect
Java
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
LoRA
Fine-tuning
RLHF
QLoRA
LLMOps
SFT
EU AI Act
NIST AI RMF
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Knowledge Distillation
PEFT
AgentOps
Model Distillation
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 10 days ago Hiring now · 81%

Solution Architect – Agentic AI

$116k – $180k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 20+ years exp · Louisville · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Architect
AgentOps
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
DevOps
Platform Engineering
QA
Rest-Assured
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 23 days ago Likely open · 64%

Associate Director, Generative AI and Agentic AI Architecture

≈ $80k – $146k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Head+ · Mississauga · Remote (United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Architect
Python
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
Function Calling
AgentOps
CrewAI
Reranking
Hybrid Search
LLMOps
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
EU AI Act
NIST AI RMF
Agentic Workflows
Prompt Engineering
RAG
AI Agents
LangChain
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
QA
Rest-Assured
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Pearson

pearson.com
pearson.com · HQ: London, United Kingdom · E-learning · EdTech Platforms · Publishing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1844 · Trust B · Hiring 145, 22 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom · E-learning · EdTech Platforms · Publishing · 5000+ employees · Est. 1844 · Trust B · Hiring 145, 22 new
Pearson is a London-based learning company that publishes educational courseware, runs assessments and qualifications, and provides digital learning, English-language and workforce skills services. Founded in 1844 and listed in London and New York, it employs more than 20,000 people, and its UK Assessment and Qualifications arm delivers nearly four million exam results a year, including GCSE, A-Level and BTEC. It hires for software and data engineering, product management, channel sales, partnership management, payroll, HR operations and tutoring roles across India, the UK, the US, Poland, Spain, Israel and the Philippines.
Verified live · 5 hours ago 5 days ago Likely open · 63%

Advanced Specialist, Content Developer (Agentic AI Solutions)

Poland · Remote (Poland)
AgentOps
Scale AI
Agentic Workflows
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
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Provectus

provectus.com
provectus.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · AI Consulting & Integration · 201-500 employees · Est. 2010 · IT services · Hiring 39, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · AI Consulting & Integration · 201-500 employees · Est. 2010 · IT services · Hiring 39, 4 new
Provectus is a technology consulting firm that delivers artificial intelligence, machine learning, data engineering and cloud projects for enterprise clients, with a strong focus on generative AI solutions built on Amazon Web Services. Founded in 2010, it runs engineering teams across the United States, Latin America, Armenia and Eastern Europe and hires machine learning engineers, forward deployed engineers and business development staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
11 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Senior ML Engineer (LLMs, AWS)

≈ $103k – $236k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Remote (likely United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
Rust
Go
AI/ML
Function Calling
AWS Bedrock
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
OpenAI
Claude Code
Claude
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Airflow
NLP
AgentOps
LLMOps
A2A
LLM Evaluation
Model Context Protocol
Spark
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GCP
Azure
AWS
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
Rest API
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Senior AI/ML Engineer (GenAI, AWS)

≈ $47k – $122k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czech Republic · Montenegro · Remote (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Montenegro) · Full-Time · Senior · English
TypeScript
Python
Rust
Go
AI/ML
Function Calling
AWS Bedrock
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
OpenAI
Claude Code
Claude
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Airflow
NLP
AgentOps
LLMOps
A2A
LLM Evaluation
Model Context Protocol
Spark
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GCP
Azure
AWS
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
Rest API
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Aays Analytics

aaysanalytics.com
aaysanalytics.com · HQ: Bengaluru, India · Analytics & BI Consulting · Est. 2018 · Hiring 5
HQ: Bengaluru, India · Analytics & BI Consulting · Est. 2018 · Hiring 5
Aays Analytics uses industry-standard tools and technologies to offer agile and scalable analytics solutions. It gives actionable insights, centralizes data, and helps collaboration amongst the teams.
12 days ago Hiring now · 77%

Principal Data Architect

≈ $29k – $62k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 8+ years exp · Bengaluru · Remote (India) · Staff
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Snowflake
Databricks
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Vertex AI
AgentOps
Time Series
Spark
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Analytics
Looker
Data Vault
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Siemens Energy

siemens-energy.com
siemens-energy.com · HQ: Munich, Germany · Industrial Machinery · Hydrogen Energy · Electrical Equipment & Cables · Wind Energy · Power Grid · 5000+ employees · Est. 2020 · Trust A · Hiring 643, 216 new
HQ: Munich, Germany · Industrial Machinery · Hydrogen Energy · Electrical Equipment & Cables · Wind Energy · Power Grid · 5000+ employees · Est. 2020 · Trust A · Hiring 643, 216 new
Siemens Energy is a German energy technology company headquartered in Munich that makes gas and steam turbines, generators, transformers, switchgear, HVDC and grid systems, electrolyzers and, through Siemens Gamesa, wind turbines. Spun off from Siemens and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2020, it serves utilities, grid operators and industrial customers worldwide, with major sites in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, India and many other countries. Its openings include software, data and AI engineers, quality and supplier quality engineers, enterprise architects, buyers and product managers.
Verified live · 5 hours ago Sponsors in US, UK 13 days ago Long shot · 16%

Agentic NetOps & Agent Operations Engineer

Portugal · Remote (Portugal) · Bachelor's Degree · English: C1
Python
AI/ML
AgentOps
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
Management
ITSM
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Izertis

izertis.com
izertis.com · HQ: Gijón, Spain · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Managed Security · AI Consulting & Integration · Enterprise Apps Implementation Partners · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1996 · Hiring 58, 11 new
HQ: Gijón, Spain · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Managed Security · AI Consulting & Integration · Enterprise Apps Implementation Partners · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1996 · Hiring 58, 11 new
Izertis is a Spanish technology consultancy headquartered in Gijon, Asturias, that drives digital transformation for companies and public organizations through software engineering, consulting, cloud, cybersecurity, data and AI projects. Founded in 1996 and listed on the Spanish stock exchange, it has more than 2,300 professionals working from offices in Europe, the Americas and Africa, delivers projects in over 50 countries. Its main lines of work include IT support and service desk, cloud and DevOps engineering, AI solution engineering, business intelligence and ETL, QA testing, cybersecurity operations, and PMO and Atlassian consulting.
Verified live · 2 hours ago 15 days ago Fading · 41%

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

≈ $59k – $122k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 6+ years exp · Madrid · Remote (Spain) · Master's Degree · Senior · English: C1
C++
Python
Databases
Weaviate
Milvus
pgvector
Qdrant
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LangGraph
LoRA
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
RLHF
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Function Calling
NLP
Langfuse
LangSmith
QLoRA
AgentOps
Mixture of Experts
Hybrid Search
Synthetic Data
DPO
SFT
A2A
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Model Distillation
Model Context Protocol
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
AutoGen
LlamaIndex
Anthropic SDK
PEFT
CrewAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
OCR
Knowledge Graph
Edge AI
LangChain
DevOps
gRPC
Rest API
Docker
Linux
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Robotics
Digital Twin
Open3D
Design
AutoCAD
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Scotiabank

scotiabank.com
scotiabank.com · HQ: Toronto, Canada · Investment Banking & M&A Advisory · Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Commercial & Retail Banks · Digital Banks & Neobanks · 5000+ employees · Est. 1832 · Trust A · Hiring 598, 113 new
HQ: Toronto, Canada · Investment Banking & M&A Advisory · Wealth Management & Financial Advisors · Commercial & Retail Banks · Digital Banks & Neobanks · 5000+ employees · Est. 1832 · Trust A · Hiring 598, 113 new
Scotiabank, legally The Bank of Nova Scotia, is a Canadian multinational bank headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and one of Canada's Big Five banks. Founded in 1832, it serves over 25 million customers with personal and commercial banking, wealth management, corporate and investment banking and capital markets, has about 88,000 employees, operates heavily in Latin America and the Caribbean, and trades in Toronto and New York as BNS. Openings include branch customer experience associates and financial advisors in Canada, plus credit risk, KYC and AML, engineering, investment banking and legal roles in Toronto, Bogota and Lima.
Sponsors in IE, CA 21 days ago Fading · 33%

Lider Tecnico de Inteligencia Artificial

Lead · Colombia · Remote (Colombia) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AgentOps
Machine Learning
DevOps
Azure
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Sponsors in IE, CA 21 days ago Fading · 37%

Líder Técnico de Inteligencia Artificial

Lead · Bogotá · Remote (Colombia) · Staff
Python
AI/ML
AgentOps
Machine Learning
DevOps
Azure
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NTT DATA

nttdata.com
nttdata.com · HQ: Tokyo, Toyosu, Japan · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · Data Centers & Colocation · Managed IT Services (MSP) · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Systems Integrators · 5000+ employees · Est. 1988 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 1700, 151 new
HQ: Tokyo, Toyosu, Japan · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · Data Centers & Colocation · Managed IT Services (MSP) · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Systems Integrators · 5000+ employees · Est. 1988 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 1700, 151 new
NTT DATA is a Tokyo system integrator founded in 1988 that spun out of the data communications arm of NTT. It is one of the largest information technology services firms in the world, building banking, public sector and payment systems and operating global consulting and managed services. The company runs the CAFIS payment network used across Japanese retail and banking.
Verified live · 3 hours ago Sponsors in US, IE 29 days ago Fading · 38%

Senior Technical Software Architect

≈ $43k – $93k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Cluj-Napoca · Remote (Romania, Serbia) · PhD · Full-Time · Architect · English: B2
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
Function Calling
Semantic Kernel
Model Context Protocol
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
AgentOps
LLMOps
DevOps
Azure AKS
Docker
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
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BMC Software

bmc.com
bmc.com · HQ: Houston, United States · Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) · DevOps & Platform Engineering · IT Service & Asset Management · 5000+ employees · Est. 1980 · Trust A · Hiring 82, 14 new
HQ: Houston, United States · Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) · DevOps & Platform Engineering · IT Service & Asset Management · 5000+ employees · Est. 1980 · Trust A · Hiring 82, 14 new
BMC Software provides service management, automation and mainframe tooling for large enterprises. Its Helix suite covers IT service desks, discovery and operations analytics. The company remains a major supplier of mainframe performance and DevOps software.
Top 25% payVerified live · 7 hours ago 1 month ago Long shot · 22%

Lead SRE

$153k – $255k per year · Lead · New York · Remote (likely United States) · PhD · Staff
Bash
Python
Databases
OpenSearch
AI/ML
Langfuse
Hallucination
LLMOps
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
vLLM
Ollama
AgentOps
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
OpenShift
OpenTelemetry
Self-Healing
Incident Management
Docker
Linux
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Management
Agile
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SoftServe

softserveinc.com
softserveinc.com · HQ: Lviv, Ukraine · HQ: Austin, United States · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · Custom Software Development · Est. 1993 · Trust A · Hiring 36, 7 new
HQ: Lviv, Ukraine · HQ: Austin, United States · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · Custom Software Development · Est. 1993 · Trust A · Hiring 36, 7 new
SoftServe is a technology company founded in Lviv in 1993. It provides software development, data and advisory services to enterprises worldwide. The company employs thousands of engineers, most of them in Ukraine.
1 month ago Long shot · 17%

Senior ML Engineer

≈ $42k – $111k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 3+ years exp · Bulgaria · Remote (Bulgaria) · Senior
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LangGraph
MLFlow
Multimodal AI
NLP
Langfuse
LangSmith
AgentOps
Kubeflow
CrewAI
LLMOps
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG
AI Agents
LangChain
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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CodeRoad

coderoad.com
coderoad.com · HQ: Boca Raton, United States · AI Consulting & Integration · Custom Software Development · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 30, 3 new
HQ: Boca Raton, United States · AI Consulting & Integration · Custom Software Development · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 30, 3 new
CodeRoad provides nearshore software development, AI implementation and digital transformation, from staff augmentation to dedicated IT teams. It hires frontend, .NET and Azure DevOps engineers and AI product owners for client projects. The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.
Verified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago Likely open · 46%

Agentic AI Engineer

Middle · 3+ years exp · Remote (LATAM, United States) · Contractor · Middle · English: C1
Python
Databases
Weaviate
Pinecone
AI/ML
LangGraph
Function Calling
LangSmith
AgentOps
AWS Bedrock
CrewAI
Google ADK
Semantic Search
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Model Context Protocol
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
LangChain
DevOps
Platform Engineering
AWS
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Senior Agentic AI Engineer

≈ $54k – $143k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Remote (LATAM) · Senior · English: C1
Python
Databases
Weaviate
Pinecone
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangSmith
AgentOps
AWS Bedrock
CrewAI
Google ADK
Hallucination
Reranking
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
Model Context Protocol
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Reinforcement Learning
Chainlit
Streamlit
LangChain
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Azure
Management
n8n
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Accenture

accenture.com
accenture.com · HQ: Dublin, Ireland · Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) · Systems Integrators · Management Consulting · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · 5000+ employees · Est. 1989 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 6184, 211 new
HQ: Dublin, Ireland · Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) · Systems Integrators · Management Consulting · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · 5000+ employees · Est. 1989 · IT services · Trust A · Hiring 6184, 211 new
Accenture is a professional services company that began as the consulting arm of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, separated as Andersen Consulting in 1989 and took its present name in 2001. It is one of the largest technology services organisations in the world, employing well over seven hundred thousand people and running strategy, consulting, technology, operations and industry work for most of the Fortune Global 500. Incorporated in Dublin and built on a delivery network concentrated in India and the Philippines, it has reoriented around cloud migration, cybersecurity and generative AI, which it now books as a distinct multi-billion dollar revenue line.
Verified live · 1 hour ago Sponsors in US, IE 2 months ago Long shot · 2%

Full Stack AI Engineer

≈ $54k – $149k per year (Estimated) · Singapore · Remote (Singapore) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Node JS
SQL
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
AgentOps
CrewAI
Hybrid Search
LLMOps
AWS Strands Agents
A2A
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Model Context Protocol
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
LangChain
Frontend
Angular
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Analytics
A/B Testing
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phData

phdata.io
phdata.io · HQ: Minneapolis, United States · Analytics & BI Consulting · Data Engineering & Migration Services · 11-50 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust A · Hiring 42, 2 new
HQ: Minneapolis, United States · Analytics & BI Consulting · Data Engineering & Migration Services · 11-50 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust A · Hiring 42, 2 new
phData is the leading AI and data services company. We specialize in AI and data applications, from conception to production. Our global delivery team partners with the world's top brands to execute data initiatives in artificial intelligence, data engineering, applications, analytics, and managed services for cloud platforms.
Likely inactiveVerified live · 5 hours ago Sponsors in US 5 months ago Long shot · 8%

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

≈ $23k – $52k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 4+ years exp · Bengaluru · Remote (India) · Bachelor's Degree · Senior · English
SQL
Python
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
LlamaIndex
dbt
Function Calling
AgentOps
AWS Bedrock
Anthropic
Amazon SageMaker
LLMOps
Human-in-the-Loop
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Claude
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Cortex
Azure
AWS
Prometheus
Analytics
Fivetran
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Applied AI Solution Architect

≈ $30k – $52k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 6+ years exp · Bengaluru · Remote (India) · Bachelor's Degree · Architect · English: B2
SQL
Python
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
LlamaIndex
dbt
Function Calling
AgentOps
AWS Bedrock
Anthropic
Amazon SageMaker
LLMOps
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Claude
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Cortex
Azure
AWS
Prometheus
Analytics
Fivetran
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Kyndryl

kyndryl.com
kyndryl.com · HQ: New York, United States · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Systems Integrators · IT Infrastructure & Networking Services · Managed IT Services (MSP) · 5000+ employees · Est. 2021 · IT services · Trust B · Hiring 618, 61 new
HQ: New York, United States · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Systems Integrators · IT Infrastructure & Networking Services · Managed IT Services (MSP) · 5000+ employees · Est. 2021 · IT services · Trust B · Hiring 618, 61 new
Kyndryl is an American IT infrastructure services company created in November 2021 when IBM spun off its managed infrastructure division, and it is the largest provider of its kind in the world. It designs, builds, runs and modernises the mission-critical systems of thousands of enterprise and government customers, covering mainframes, hybrid cloud, networks, security, applications and data platforms across more than sixty countries. Freed from its former parent, the company has built alliances with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and SAP, and is shifting revenue mix from legacy managed contracts toward consulting and modernisation work.
Open 159 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago Sponsors in US, IE 5 months ago Long shot · 10%

Public Cloud Solutions Architect

≈ $30k – $53k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Bengaluru · Remote (India) · Full-Time · Architect
AgentOps
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG
AI Agents
DevOps
CloudFormation
Bicep
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
FinOps
VMWare
Ansible
DNS
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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