AI-Ops Engineer

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Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a AI-Ops Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: AI-Ops Engineer

Job Type: Contract

Job Location: Stanford, CA

Work Schedule: On-site

Rate: $60,Based on experience

The AI-Ops Engineer is a key technical contributor responsible for evolving traditional Dev Ops into AI
- Ops s role leverages AI and machine learning to automate and enhance IT operations including performance monitoring, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation.

Working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, AI-driven automation, and operational excellence, the engineer embeds intelligence into infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring to ensure high availability, predictive issue resolution, and operational efficiency across CGOE's global online programs.

AI-Driven Operations & Automation

Implement AIOps solutions that use ML algorithms to automate performance monitoring, workload scheduling, and infrastructure management.

Build anomaly detection systems that identify infrastructure issues before they impact users.

Develop automated root cause analysis capabilities using ML to correlate events and filter noise from critical alerts.

Create predictive maintenance workflows that analyze historical patterns to proactively mitigate issues.

Design and implement automated remediation scripts that respond to incidents without human intervention.

Observability & Intelligent Monitoring

Architect comprehensive observability platforms that aggregate data from disparate sources into unified dashboards.

Implement intelligent alerting systems using NLP and ML to reduce alert fatigue and surface actionable insights.

Build real-time analytics dashboards for coordinated diagnosis across teams.

Deploy application performance monitoring (APM) solutions integrated with AI-driven analytics. Ensure end-to-end visibility across cloud infrastructure, applications, and AI/ML workloads.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation, Terraform, or CDK).

Implement and manage containerized environments using Docker, AWS ECS, Fargate, and Kubernetes (EKS).

Build CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery, integrating AI-powered code quality and deployment optimization.

Manage cloud automation and optimization to improve cost-efficiency and resource utilization.

Ensure compliance with company and regulatory standards (FERPA, GDPR) for secure data handling and governance.

Partner with cross-functional teams to implement domain-agnostic AIOps solutions across the organization.

Use Git-based version control and code review best practices as part of a collaborative, agile workflow.

Document operational procedures, runbooks, and AIOps workflows for team knowledge sharing.

Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AIOps tools, AWS services, and AI-driven automation technologies.

Contribute to building an AI-first operational culture that prioritizes automation and predictive capabilities.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred).

AWS certification preferred (Solutions Architect, Sys Ops Administrator, or Dev Ops Engineer);
Professional-level certification a plus.

3+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.

2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC). Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions at scale.

Familiarity with ML/AI concepts and their application to operational automation.

Languages:

Python (required);
Bash, Go, or Type Script preferred.

AIOps & Monitoring:
Cloud Watch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk with ML capabilities.

Infrastructure as Code: AWS Cloud Formation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.

CI/CD Tools:
Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, or Git Lab CI.

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