AI Enablement DevOps Specialist (Consultant)

We’re supporting a high-visibility enterprise client undergoing a major AI transformation initiative focused on modernizing how internal teams build, deploy, and scale work across engineering and operations. This organization is investing heavily in AI acceleration, workflow automation, and development lifecycle optimization to improve speed, governance, and long-term operational efficiency.

About the role

This opportunity is ideal for a senior-level DevOps Specialist who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, systems thinking, and execution. The role involves building scalable environments, improving deployment workflows, and creating operational frameworks that allow technical teams to move faster with less friction.

This is a short-term consulting engagement supporting a 4-month client project, with strong potential for extension based on performance and budget. The engagement can be structured as either W2 employment or a 1099 contract. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite work in Issaquah, WA three days per week. Candidates must be located in the Seattle or greater Seattle area; relocation is not supported.

Responsibilities

• Establish Dev → Test → Prod environment pipelines for scalable deployment readiness
• Stand up Microsoft environments and support infrastructure required for implementation
• Configure platform readiness including data inputs, environment variables, and deployment workflows
• Set up centralized monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Review and document current-state SDLC processes across agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments
• Assess baseline metrics including cycle time, throughput, failure rates, and operational bottlenecks
• Partner with Developers, Engineering Managers, TPMs, and Project Managers to identify tooling gaps and improvement opportunities
• Support lightweight pilots to test AI tooling assumptions and implementation readiness
• Help define governance standards for deployment policies, permissions, and operational procedures
• Build operational handoff plans, escalation paths, and post-go-live support models
• Support hypercare and elevated production support during rollout and stabilization phases

Qualifications

This role is for you if you:

• Have strong DevOps ownership instincts and know how to create structure in fast-moving environments
• Are highly technical but can also communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders
• Thrive in environments where speed, clarity, and execution matter
• Are comfortable building while also improving process, governance, and scalability
• Know how to balance delivery speed with operational excellence and long-term maintainability
• Move quickly, solve problems proactively, and take accountability without waiting for direction

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or technical consulting
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows in Microsoft environments
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale SDLC modernization initiatives
• Strong understanding of Azure environments, DevOps tooling, governance, and release processes
• Experience with monitoring systems, telemetry, and production support models
• Enterprise-level FTE or consulting experience supporting large, complex organizations is required

Skills

You might also have:

• Experience supporting AI, Copilot, automation, or agentic workflow initiatives
• Exposure to Power Platform, Power Automate, or enterprise AI tooling implementations
• Experience designing governance guardrails for AI-enabled development environments

Benefits

AG Consulting Partners offers excellent benefits to full-time employees, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• PTO
• 401K matching
• Education reimbursement
• Community and philanthropic events
• Flexible career paths

Pay

Compensation ranges from $125,000–$140,000 annualized for W2 employment or $145,000–$165,000 annualized for 1099, based on experience and alignment to the role.

Schedule

This is a hybrid engagement requiring onsite work in Issaquah, WA three days per week.