Cloud Infrastructure AI Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Company: [Unknown]

A cutting-edge AI and Generative AI infrastructure is being designed and developed on the AWS Cloud platform and COLO, tailored for pharmaceutical business use-cases.

The platform will facilitate biomedical research scientists and other business users for early molecule development and other research activities by providing robust, scalable, and secure computing resources.

Main Accountabilities:

• Architect and Design: Lead the design and architecture of an GPU based AI infrastructure platform, with a focus on supporting Generative AI workloads and advanced analytics for pharma business use-cases like Bio Ne Mo, Alpha Fold, ESM Fold, Open Fold, Prot GPT and NVIDIA Clara suite.
• Platform Development: Work with Biomedical research scientists to develop and implement technical solutions for ML/Ops (Run: AI) hosted on K8 EKS cluster.
• Data Management: Oversee the design and implementation of data storage, retrieval, and processing pipelines, ensuring the efficient handling of large datasets, including genomics and chemical compound data.
• Security and Compliance: In collaboration with cloud domain security architects, implement robust security measures for multi-cloud environment and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards, particularly in handling business sensitive data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Biomedical research & Data scientists and other business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of the platform, including monitoring and scaling resources as needed.
• Innovation: Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in AI and cloud infrastructure, continuously exploring new ways to enhance the platform's capabilities.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Delivery on agreed KPIs including business impact.
• Launch of innovative technology solutions across Novartis at scale.
• Business impact and value generated from IES solutions.
• Adoption and development of Agile, Productization and Dev Sec Ops practices.
• Operations stability and effective risk management.
• Feedback on customer experience.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education & Certification: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• AWS Solution Architect certification – professional
• Work Experience: 8+ years of strong technical hands-on experience of delivering infrastructure and platform services across geographic and business boundaries.
• Working experience on GPU based AI Infrastructure.
• Experience in NVIDIA DGX Infra is highly preferred.
• Deep understanding of Architecture and Design of Platform Engineering products with focus mainly on Data science, ML/Ops and Bio science or Pharma Gen AI foundational models.
• Experience in NVIDIA Bio Ne Mo or Clara is highly preferred.
• Extensive experience in building infra solutions on AWS, particularly with services like AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, Sage Maker, ECS/EKS
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Dev Ops practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring solutions.
• Excellent skills in collaborating with business users, Product team, Operationalizing the delivered products and working closely with Security for implementing compliance.
• Good knowledge on implementing well defined & industry standard Change management process for platform & its products.
• Have a well-structured Use-case onboarding process.
• Should ensure to have documentation for Platform products and implementations done.
• Experience with Dev Ops Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies
• Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts for infrastructure
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.

Skills & Competencies:

• Comfortable being the first line of defense in the event of an outage, capable of working with multiple vendors to arrive at a solution ASAP - Good at mitigating the outage to keep our business running
• Has one eye on cost, and one eye on the needs of the team.
• Track record of delivering projects on time and on budget, passion for coding, and good oral and written communication skills.
• Continues to iterate on Architecture to improve performance / reliability / durability / flexibility
• Need someone who can make a contribution day one and hit the ground running.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, knows when to call a meeting to get in alignment, and knows when it's time to just get things done.
• Proven track record working with multinational teams
• Good presentation and communication skills (written & spoken)

Languages: Excellent written, presentation and verbal communication skills Languages: Fluent in English (written & spoken), additional languages a plus