AI Engineer, Advanced Platforms Team

Introduction

With offices in Pennsylvania, United States, Dublin, Ireland and Singapore, Island Networks is an innovative IT Services company that provides cloud and converged IT infrastructure solutions to large enterprises globally.

Since its inception in 2012 Island Networks has built a world class team of professionals along with a customer base of blue-chip global organizations and in recent years the company has experienced rapid growth, particularly in the pharmaceutical and high-tech vertical industry sectors. The culture in Island Networks is one where attitude and ability is favored over experience.

The Opportunity

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead embedded with one to two strategic customer accounts, owning discovery through delivery. You’ll translate high-level asks like “we want an agent” into clear, buildable system specifications that your team can implement and your customer’s security stakeholders can approve. This is a senior level position targeting candidates with 5+ years of experience in the Ai space. This USA-based role sits within the Professional Services Team on the Advanced Platforms AI Practice.

Job Description and Responsibilities • Design and ship multi-agent systems on one of the following AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, or Google Vertex AI / ADK — whichever stack the customer is committed to. You're fluent in at least two at production depth. • Architect the surrounding infrastructure: identity (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Entra, MCP servers, agent-as-non-human-identity patterns), tool integration (Gateway / Lambda / Logic Apps / Cloud Run), persistent memory and session isolation, and policy enforcement (Bedrock Guardrails, Cedar, Foundry policies). • Build orchestration with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or framework-equivalent — applying real patterns (ReAct, hierarchical delegation, swarm, self-reflection). • Stand up evaluation harnesses and observability (Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, AgentCore Evaluations) before the customer asks. Treat evals as a deliverable not a nice to have. • Own the production cutover: IaC (Terraform / CDK), CI/CD, container platform integration (AKS / EKS / OpenShift), regional resiliency, cost controls. You don't hand the system over and disappear when it breaks at 3am of a customer's quarter-end run. • Translate hard customer feedback into product input for our internal platform team and partner roadmaps (AWS, Microsoft, Anthropic, Red Hat).

Qualifications • 1 year or more experience of hands-on production work with AWS Bedrock AgentCore or Azure AI Foundry (Foundry, formerly AI Studio / Azure OpenAI • Python as primary; TypeScript or Go as secondary. You can read someone else's stack trace in either. • RAG done well: chunking strategy with a defended rationale, embedding model selection with a real reason, vector store choice (pgvector, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search, Pinecone), re-ranking that actually moves quality numbers. • Cloud-native delivery: Kubernetes (AKS / EKS / OpenShift), Docker, Helm, Terraform or CDK, GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / GitLab CI. You don't need to be a Platform Engineer, but you've shipped to a real cluster behind a real load balancer. • Identity for agents: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, delegated auth, MCP servers.

Nice to have skills • Experience with MCP servers: building, hosting, securing them, integrating with ServiceNow, Jira, internal tooling. • Spec-driven development tooling (Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex skills) and demonstrable productivity gains from agentic IDE workflows. • AgentCore CLI, AWS CDK skills, or AgentCore harness work in the wild. • Background in a regulated vertical (life sciences / pharma / CRO, financial services, public sector) and the muscle that goes with it — validation, audit etc. • Customer-co-authored case studies, or a public LLM project with shipped evidence. • Any AI certifications AWS, Microsoft, GCP or Redhat.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future. Island Networks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, traits associated with race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.