Senior AI DevOps Engineer

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Job Summary

The Senior AI DevOps Engineer in Global Value Advisory team at Equinix is a specialized pre sales individual contributor role that is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of technical PoCs with customers and technology partners, creation of demos and architectural blueprints, doing quantitative performance studies, writing technical whitepapers, and doing presentations and workshops to customers that demonstrate the value of Equinix.

The ideal candidate has a builder mindset who leverages AI coding tools to build solutions. This person needs to have high hands-on dexterity in building, measuring and deploying complex distributed solutions that consist of components from multiple service providers. They need to have solid background in networking, data and AI technologies. We are looking for a person who is self-motivated and keeps abreast of fast-moving technological changes and has an innovative and problem-solving mindset in an environment where constant change is the norm.  We need a team-first person because in this job one must constantly collaborate with internal teams, customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Create and validate AI solution demos and blueprints with internal product team and partners

• Helps sales team with customer meetings and workshops

• Research, evaluate and stay ahead of emerging tools, techniques and technologies

• Provide technical support for new product initiatives through participation beta testing of new solutions

• Identify, develop, update and implement standards and procedures

• Conduct quantitative experiments and write technical white papers

• Work with staff members in the CRO, GMPO, and CDIO organizations on system infrastructure problems, technical concerns

• Meet with technical sales team members to convert customer requirements into a technical Statement of Work.

• Create Proofs of Concepts that integrate the Equinix product suite into customer solutions. Looking for a hands-on person who can stitch together reference architectures and solutions.

• Help with internal training of technical staff on emerging technologies

Qualifications

• 3+ Years experience in deploying AI solutions

• 5+ Years experience in customer facing solution engineering environment

• Advanced level skills in AI and Cloud technologies

• Basic/Medium level skills in networking technologies

• BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science

Technologies include

• AI Technologies: Advanced Hands-On experience leveraging the following:

  • AI Gateway technologies like LiteLLM

  • Agentic AI Platforms like LangChain/LangFlow/LangGraph

  • AI OS like OpenClaw/NemoClaw

  • NVIDIA RunAI/MissionControl

  • Vector/Graph DB, Delta-sharing, RAG solutions

  • MCP/A2A Protocol

  • Inferencing technologies like vLLM and Ollama

  • End to End AI solution deployment life cycle

 

• Networking Technologies: Basic/Medium understanding of Networking technologies:

  • L3 Technologies - OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, IPv4, IPv6, Multicast

  • L2 Technologies - Ethernet, VLAN, VXLAN

  • Network platforms like Firewalls, Loadbalancers, SD-WANs, DDoS

 

• Cloud and Virtualization Technologies: Advanced hands-on experience leveragi