Principal AI Ops Architect, GPS

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In the posting’s own words

As a Principal AI Ops Architect, you will design and develop the production lifecycle of full-stack AI applications, while supporting end-to-end system reliability, real-time inference observability, sovereign data orchestration, high-security software integration, and the resilient cloud infrastructure required for our international government partners.

What it asks for · 5

• Experience: 6+ years in a high-impact technical role (SRE, FDE or MLOps) with experience in the public sector.
• Global perspective: Familiarity with international government security standards and the complexities of deploying sovereign AI.
• System architecture proficiency: Proven experience maintaining production-grade applications with a deep understanding of the full request lifecycle-connecting frontend/API layers to the backend and AI core.
• Modern AI Stack expertise: Proficiency in coding and the modern AI infrastructure, including Kubernetes, vector databases, agentic development, and LLM observability tools.
• Customer communication: The ability to explain to a high-ranking official why the performance of the system has degraded and how we are fixing it.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• public sector6×
• international government4×
• performance4×
• production4×
• reliability4×
• system4×
• technical4×
• visa4×
• applications3×
• core3×
• data3×
• ensure3×
• ensuring3×
• experience3×
• full-stack3×
• global3×

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