Within a research and educational institution, a dedicated chatAI environment is being set up, allowing users (students, teachers, researchers) to safely utilize the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence for research and education within established guardrails. This includes an AI Chat, an LLM Hub, and integrations with internal data sources. As an AI Platform Engineer, you will be part of an ambitious and technically strong team responsible for developing and maintaining this AI Facility.
You will play a key role in setting up and managing the necessary infrastructure in Azure, provisioning the CI/CD pipeline, monitoring and improving performance, and enhancing the user experience. System management covers infrastructure, platform, applications, and functional services.
What you will do.
- Provisioning, managing, and further developing secure, reliable, and scalable Azure and Kubernetes environment(s) for the AI Facility.
- Provisioning and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, including rollback and release procedures.
- Managing environments, infrastructure resources, technical configurations, and dependencies, while ensuring version control and consistent provisioning across all environments.
- Documenting technical architecture, management procedures, and runbooks.
- Automating usage and management. Supporting releases and analyzing technical incidents, malfunctions, and performance issues.
- Monitoring and improving platform performance, security, manageability, and reliability. Setting up and maintaining the necessary monitoring, alerting, and observability.
- Collaborating with software developers to improve the user experience.
- Solving disruptions and performance issues together with colleagues.
Profile
You are an independent and inquisitive IT professional with a DevOps mindset. You enjoy collaborating with other professionals and various stakeholders in an agile environment. You are a connector and dare to speak out and ask questions. You are a true go-getter, possess strong communication skills, and have a warm heart for education and research. Additionally, you are analytically minded but also solution- and customer-oriented.
You are enterprising and have the drive and organizational talent to get things done as a driving force. You are creative and always look for new solutions to make existing environments more effective and new functionalities possible. You also have a keen eye for the availability, stability, scalability, and user-friendliness of the provided infrastructure.
What they ask
- HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level, preferably through a completed HBO ICT education.
- Experience as a System Administrator or DevOps Engineer in an enterprise environment.
- Knowledge of and experience with Linux and Kubernetes environments and Azure cloud solutions.
- Knowledge of designing and managing cloud-native concepts.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and a declarative mindset.
- Experience with containerization and CI/CD tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Git(lab)).
- Basic knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
- Good command of Dutch and English.
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