Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - GenAI

Project overview

For a long-term project with our client in Zurich (remote share only possible within Switzerland), we are looking for a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - GenAI.

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Type of assignment:

Utilization: 100%

Industry: Banking

Responsibilities

Must-Have Requirements

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Let’s power the future together

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We look forward to hearing from you!

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Vivek Kandiah

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Email: *@*.eu

• Configure and manage Azure cloud resources, especially API Management, Foundry, OpenAI, AI Search, and Document Intelligence, as well as Kubernetes-based applications like Langfuse using Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, Helm charts, and GitLab.
• Automate build, test, and release processes for GenAI applications and LLMOps to enable reliable releases in development, test, and production environments.
• Develop technical concepts for new requirements for the GenAI platform and help shape its ongoing development and optimization; coordinate platform components, efforts, operations, and organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms, for example with Grafana and Azure Dashboards, to ensure platform stability and efficiency.
• Support client applications with conceptual questions, onboarding, integrations, and operational issues.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and logs to identify and resolve problems early.
• Re-develop and further develop code-based solutions for authorization checks, logging and monitoring, routing logic, and guardrail validations using Java, Python, XML, and C# (APIM Policies).
• 5–8 years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer with a focus on GenAI, ideally in the banking environment.
• Sound knowledge of DevOps toolchains, especially Git, GitLab, Docker, and Terraform.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud services, especially Azure API Management, AKS, Azure Functions, OpenAI, AI Search, Document Intelligence, Azure Foundry, and Storage Accounts.
• Knowledge in DevOps monitoring, logging, and alerting, especially with Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor, to ensure high availability.
• Open personality with a quick grasp.
• Fluent German and English skills, both written and spoken.
• Project experience with GenAI technologies, ideally including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI, and optimization of GenAI solutions.
• Ability to develop concepts and architectural solutions and to represent them to IT Security and Domain Architecture.
• Sound understanding of authentication and authorization procedures with Azure Entra ID, RBAC, and OAuth.
• Knowledge in software development with Python and/or Java.
• Assignment duration: January 2027 to March 2028 with option for extension
• Workload: 100%
• Location: Zurich & Remote (only possible within Switzerland)
• per week

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 15 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Zürich, Schweiz, CH
• Languages: German