AI Engineer (Expert)
Pretoria - South Africa
Job Summary
The AI Engineer (Expert) will be responsible for building operating and enhancing AI-driven platforms with a strong focus on observability cloud infrastructure and data pipelines. This role requires a systems-thinking mindset and the ability to manage complex cloud-native environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate AI observability platforms
- Manage and maintain platform infrastructure
- Control and manage platform access and governance
- Design and implement scalable data pipeline solutions
- Oversee daily platform operations and performance
Essential Skills
- Cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)
- Application observability and telemetry
- DevOps practices
- Agent framework familiarity
- GitOps
Advantageous Skills
- AI agent development and configuration
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Crossplane ArgoCD)
- Data engineering (Kafka ETL Spark)
- Enterprise systems integration
Qualifications & Experience
- Strong background in platform engineering or DevOps
- Deep expertise in observability and monitoring
- Experience with cloud-native governed AI platforms
- Proficiency in agent-based systems
- Strong systems-thinking approach (telemetry failure modes reliability)
- Ability to balance engineering autonomy with governance requirements
Required Skills:
AI Observability Platforms Platform Infrastructure Platform Access and Governance Data Pipelines Platform Operations and Performance