AI Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Responsibilities

• Architect reusable Terraform modules and Crossplane compositions for multi-environment use
• Design and maintain multi-environment GitOps structures with FluxCDEngineering
• Engineer advanced ADO pipeline patterns (multi-stage, gated, reusable templates)
• Solve complex AKS issues (networking, scaling, controllers, identity integration)
• Implement and maintain Workload identity patterns for AKS workloads
• Improve team practices through tooling, documentation, and automation improvements
• Perform technical reviews to ensure quality, security, and consistency
• Mentor junior AI Infrastructure Engineers, fostering growth and development of team members through knowledge-sharing, constructive code review, and by setting the standard for best practices

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, operating, and scaling production Kubernetes platforms, with deep hands-on expertise in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform, with supplemental use of Crossplane and ARM templates.
• Demonstrated success implementing GitOps operating models, including desired-state enforcement, drift detection, and multi-environment promotion.
• Experience defining and operating observability standards, including monitoring, alerting, and SLI/SLOs using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with at least one Cloud Computing platform (experience with Microsoft Azure a plus).
• Experience with serverless functions, e.g., OpenFaaS.
• Bachelor’s degree
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Solid understanding of Azure identity and access management, including Managed Identities, service principals, and AKS Workload Identity.
  • Hands-on experience provisioning and supporting Azure resources such as Storage Accounts, Key Vault, ACR, networking (VNets, private endpoints), and monitoring services.
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and deploying to AKS and Azure services using Octopus Deploy.
  • Kubernetes and/or Azure certifications (CKA, CKAD, Azure Architect, or similar).
  • Demonstrated commitment to DevOps best practices and continuous improvement.
  • You want to stay fresh with regards to practicing engineering.
  • Continuous improvement is a mantra for you as any system you work with gradually improves over time.
  • You enjoy AI and machine learning.
  • You've gone deeper than reading blog posts, ideally having several example machine learning projects you can speak to within industry, academia, or your free time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Solid understanding of Azure identity and access management, including Managed Identities, service principals, and AKS Workload Identity.
  • Hands-on experience provisioning and supporting Azure resources such as Storage Accounts, Key Vault, ACR, networking (VNets, private endpoints), and monitoring services.
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and deploying to AKS and Azure services using Octopus Deploy.
  • Kubernetes and/or Azure certifications (CKA, CKAD, Azure Architect, or similar).
  • Demonstrated commitment to DevOps best practices and continuous improvement.
  • You want to stay fresh with regards to practicing engineering.
  • Continuous improvement is a mantra for you as any system you work with gradually improves over time.
  • You enjoy AI and machine learning.
  • You've gone deeper than reading blog posts, ideally having several example machine learning projects you can speak to within industry, academia, or your free time.

Benefits

Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world. Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge. Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. Please visit our webpage to see notices of the various state and local Ban-the-Box laws and Fair Chance Ordinances, where applicable. We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.