[Hiring] Senior Azure Applications and AI Platform Specialist @Workiy

Role Description

This is a remote position. We are seeking an experienced Senior Azure Applications and AI Platform Specialist to design, implement, secure, and support enterprise-grade AI solutions built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Foundry. The ideal candidate will have strong Azure architecture expertise, hands-on experience delivering production-ready AI platforms, and a solid understanding of enterprise security, identity management, application integration, and cloud operations.

This role involves:

• Assessing existing cloud environments
• Implementing secure AI platform capabilities
• Integrating AI services with enterprise applications
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, governed, and supportable

Requirements

• Assess existing Azure and AI environments, identify technical and security gaps, and recommend target architectures and implementation plans.
• Design, deploy, and integrate document extraction and processing solutions using Azure AI Document Intelligence and OCR to transform structured and unstructured PDF documents into structured JSON or key-value formats.
• Configure and manage Microsoft Foundry resources, AI projects, model deployments, AI agents, service connections, networking, identity, monitoring, and governance controls.
• Implement Microsoft Entra ID authentication, enterprise single sign-on (SSO), and secure authorization for downstream APIs and data sources.
• Integrate AI services with enterprise applications, REST APIs, databases, document repositories, and search indexes.
• Implement security, privacy, data governance, and responsible AI controls throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Validate solution quality, performance, availability, security, scalability, supportability, and cost before production deployment.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production applications, identity integrations, AI agents, search indexes, endpoints, latency, capacity, and service limits.
• Develop architecture diagrams, deployment guides, configuration records, operational runbooks, support procedures, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and support teams to ensure successful implementation and operational readiness.
• Provide knowledge transfer and coach internal teams to maintain, operate, and extend the AI platform.

Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure
• Strong knowledge of Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and cloud architecture.
• Experience with Azure networking, private endpoints, DNS, Key Vault, Storage, App Service, Azure Functions, and API Management.
• Knowledge of Azure databases, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, backup, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Microsoft Foundry and AI Services
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry solutions.
• Experience with AI projects, model deployments, connections, quotas, access controls, networking, and environment separation.
• Knowledge of Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Content Safety, and Document Intelligence.
• Understanding of AI agents, grounding, output validation, prompt-injection controls, and responsible AI practices.