Agentic AI Developer

Long-Term Contract Hybrid in Newark NJ

We are seeking an Agentic AI Developer to join our growing Agentic AI Platform team. This role focuses on developing integrating and managing enterprise-scale AI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) systems including Kong AI Gateway AWS Bedrock Azure AI Foundry and Agentcore. The ideal candidate is hands-on comfortable with platform engineering and passionate about shaping the future of enterprise AI enablement.

Key Responsibilities

AI Gateway Management

• Install configure and maintain Kong AI Gateway and related plugins (e.g. PII sanitation observability routing).
• Implement secure and scalable patterns for MCP server onboarding and routing.

Agentic Platform Enablement

• Develop and maintain enterprise agentic AI patterns for consistent and governed agent development.
• Integrate and evaluate platforms such as AWS Bedrock Agentcore and Azure AI Foundry for agent lifecycle management.

Business Partnering

• Collaborate with business units to design develop and deploy intelligent agents aligned with enterprise use cases.
• Create intake workflows and forms (e.g. via ServiceNow) to standardize request and approval processes for new agents or AI capabilities.

Governance & Standards

• Work with security and cloud teams to implement guardrails logging standards and LLM usage policies.
• Contribute to the development of Agentic AI engineering specifications and best practices.

Continuous Improvement

• Participate in platform assessments proof-of-concepts and production rollouts.
• Optimize cost performance and reliability across AI workloads.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of experience in AI platform engineering DevOps or backend development.
• Hands-on experience with Kong Gateway or equivalent API/AI gateway technologies.
• Experience integrating with AWS Bedrock Azure AI Foundry Anthropic Claude or Agentcore.
• Strong knowledge of Python or similar languages for automation and plugin development.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow REST APIs OAuth2/OpenID and observability tooling.
• Understanding of LLM operations governance and security in enterprise settings.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to communicate with cross-functional teams (cloud security business).
• Experience in Python development and API development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with agentic frameworks or MCP server development.
• Knowledge of AI observability model routing or enterprise cost optimization.
• Contributions to AI governance compliance or ISO-standard development efforts.