Principal Engineer I – Foundry Administrator

About the role

Principal Engineer I partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable AI capabilities across the enterprise. This role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, governance, administration, and operational support of the enterprise AI Gateway platform built on Azure API Management (APIM), as well as Microsoft Foundry and related AI platform services.

Responsibilities

• Enable secure consumption of AI services, agents, large language models (LLMs), and MCP servers.
• Expose internal APIs, tools, and enterprise capabilities to AI agents and copilots.
• Establish API standards, governance frameworks, access controls, and AI usage policies.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, security, compliance, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• Provide architectural direction, drive complex solution designs, develop technical standards and operational procedures, facilitate cross-functional collaboration