Senior AI Agent Engineer (Claude SDK / AWS Bedrock / Agentic AI)

Position: Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer/AI Engineer
Location: Remote with Travel
Employment type: 3+ months contract role (may possible to extend to 6-12+ month

Looking for a Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer /AI Engineer who has 15+ years of overall experience and 6-8 years building AI agents and deploying them into production on AWS.

The role combines AI agent development (60%) and DevOps/CI/CD engineering (40%). This is a suggested split based on the responsibilities you've described.

Job Description

Experience: 10-15+ years overall, including hands-on GenAI or agentic AI development.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement AI agents using the Claude Agent SDK (formerly Claude Code SDK).
• Build agent workflows using Python or TypeScript, including tool calling, MCP integrations, and API orchestration.
• Deploy and manage AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.
• Develop automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for agent builds, testing, and deployments.
• Configure AWS IAM, ECR, Docker/container packaging where applicable, and cloud security.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production AI agent performance.
• Implement secure authentication, logging, monitoring, and observability.

Skills to look for

Skill	Priority	Description
Claude Agent SDK	Must-have	Hands-on agent development, not just Claude prompting
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime	Must-have	Actual agent deployment and runtime configuration
GitHub Actions	Must-have	Building CI/CD pipelines independently
Python or TypeScript	Must-have	Strong coding and API integration
AWS Bedrock	Must-have	Model integration and AWS ecosystem knowledge
Docker, AWS ECR, IAM	Strongly preferred	Packaging, deployment, permissions
MCP and tool calling	Strongly preferred	Building agents that execute external tools
Terraform / AWS CDK	Good-to-have	Infrastructure as Code
CloudWatch, security, monitoring	Good-to-have	Production support