[5997] Senior Cloud Engineer

Contract type: Freelance to Perm
Start date: ASAP
Setup: Hybrid (Belgium)
Language: Dutch required

The Senior AI Cloud Engineer ensures that all AI tools in the managed service are production-ready, observable, and governed. This role creates the full lifecycle management process for tools and the required infrastructure within a sovereign environment.

Requirements:
• Minimum 5+ years experience in software engineering.
• Proven experience in agile environments and modern enterprise development tooling.
• Strong background in ML Ops, DevOps, or data engineering in secure or regulated environments.
• Experience with model registries, observability tools, infrastructure-as-code, and automation.
• Understanding of ML governance, model lifecycle patterns, and production delivery and operations of AI systems.

Duties:
• Build CI/CD/CT pipelines for model deployment, data ingestion, embedding generation, and version management.
• Automate rollout and staged deployments with regulatory grade auditability.
• Standardize interfaces between data pipelines, model registries, inference runtimes, and agentic workflows.
• Implement model lineage, provenance, versioning, and reproducibility controls.
• Manage an approved model catalogue, including review workflows, validation checkpoints, and compliance checks.
• Ensure audit trails exist across data pipelines, inference endpoints, and autonomous agent actions.
• Build production grade monitoring, alerting, logging, and analytics across all AI service layers.
• Ensure high availability, performance tuning, run time stability, and capacity planning for AI workloads.
• Implement cost control mechanisms, quota management, and resource governance.
• Maintain robust runbooks, operational guidelines, and monitoring dashboards for AI platform.
• Collaborate with your team to ensure secure and efficient operational environments.
• Work with AI Engineering on deployment patterns, agent behavior monitoring, and RAG workflow stability.