Cloud Platforms Engineer

Description
Our client is looking for 2 Azure Cloud Platform Engineers for 6 month contracts. After about 3 months, we will know if these resources can be extended, but it is highly likely. We are looking for individuals who have experience delivering Azure resources that support AI and AI deployments in a cloud platform. These resources will often partner with other IT stakeholders, particularly the Data and Analytics team who are focused on data warehousing projects, analytics and automation and providing the infrastructure that is needed within Azure to deploy their resources. The role will involve building templated AI foundry services, containers, managed services, and interacting with Fabric and Data Lake.

Client Job Description

The Cloud Platforms Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and supporting Microsoft Azure cloud platform services with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), Machine Learning (ML), and Azure AI solutions. This role partners with business stakeholders, application teams, data teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and governed AI capabilities that accelerate innovation and business value.

The engineer will build and maintain Azure AI platforms including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine
Learning, Azure AI Search, Cognitive Services, and the supporting Azure infrastructure components required to run enterprise AI workloads reliably. Focus includes on a day to day:
Platform Architecture & Engineering: Design and deploy Azure platform capabilities for AI workloads.

Security & Governance: Implement secure identity, access, data protection, and responsible AI controls.

Automation & IaC :Use repeatable deployment patterns, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

AI Service Enablement : Enable business and technology teams to consume Azure AI services safely.

Operations & Support: Monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and manage lifecycle of cloud and AI services.

Key Responsibilities
Azure AI Platform Engineering
Design, deploy, and support enterprise AI platforms using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search,
Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Cognitive Services. Implement reusable AI platform patterns, reference architectures, and landing-zone aligned deployment models. Build scalable environments for AI experimentation, development, testing, and production workloads. Enable secure AI integration with enterprise applications, data sources, and business processes. Evaluate new Microsoft AI capabilities and recommend practical adoption roadmaps.

Cloud Architecture & Solution Deployment
Design and deploy secure Azure cloud solutions that support AI and intelligent automation workloads. Build and manage Azure infrastructure including networking, storage, compute, containers, databases, and platform services. Implement high availability, resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities for cloud platform services. Create architecture documentation, technical designs, deployment standards, and operational patterns.

Automation & Platform Operations
Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, JSON, and automation scripts. Automate AI service deployment, governance controls, configuration standards, and repeatable operational processes. Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for cloud and AI platform workloads. Manage platform monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboards, and reliability practices.

Security & Governance
Implement Azure security best practices including RBAC, Entra ID, Conditional Access, PIM, Key Vault, encryption, and managed identities. Establish AI governance controls, responsible AI practices, model usage monitoring, data protection, and lifecycle controls. Ensure Azure AI services meet enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Participate in risk assessments, security reviews, remediation planning, and control validation.

AI Operations & Lifecycle Management
Support AI solution deployment, monitoring, optimization, and lifecycle management. Implement usage tracking, capacity management, cost monitoring, quota management, and performance reporting. Troubleshoot platform, connectivity, identity, AI service, and integration issues. Continuously improve runbooks, standards, and operational support models. Business & Technical Collaboration
Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable cloud and AI technical solutions.

Collaborate with solution architects, developers, data engineers, cybersecurity teams, business stakeholders, and infrastructure teams. Provide technical leadership and guidance for enterprise AI adoption initiatives. Mentor team members and promote cloud platform, AI governance, and operational best practices.

Skills
Cloud, Windows, Azure, Microsoft, Cloud Engineer, Administration, AI Foundry, support, active directory
Top Skills Details
Cloud,Windows,Azure,Microsoft,Cloud Engineer,Administration,AI Foundry,support,active directory
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or equivalent experience.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent architecture experience. Azure AI Engineer knowledge or hands-on experience with Azure AI solution design, deployment, integration, monitoring, and maintenance. Experience implementing RAG patterns, AI agents, chatbots, document intelligence, or enterprise knowledge mining solutions. Experience with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI principles, and cloud compliance frameworks. Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and global multi-region Azure environments.

Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Oshkosh, WI. Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $35.00 - $50.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Sep 1, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.