Principal Technical Consultant - AI/Cloud Platform Engineering
AI summary of the role
Principal-level hands-on consulting role combining deep Azure platform engineering (landing zones, migrations) with delivery of AI agent platforms on Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio for large enterprises.
What you’ll do
- Lead Azure discovery, landing zone design/deployment, and migrations aligned to Cloud Adoption Framework
- Design and deploy Microsoft Foundry environments with network isolation, private endpoints, and customer-managed keys
- Stand up Copilot Studio governance including DLP, environment strategy, and licensing
- Build GitHub Actions promotion pipelines with automated tests, evaluation gates, and human approvals
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years in engineering or technical consulting, with 5+ years delivering Azure infrastructure/landing zones/migrations
- At least 18 months delivering GenAI or agent systems to production
- Hands-on Microsoft Foundry (azure-ai-projects Python SDK) and Copilot Studio
- IaC with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM and GitHub Actions with OIDC
Technologies
Microsoft Azure · Microsoft Foundry · Copilot Studio · Azure AI Search · Terraform · Bicep · ARM · GitHub Actions · Python · Azure Migrate · Virtual WAN · ExpressRoute
About AHEAD
AHEAD builds and operates enterprise digital platforms — cloud infrastructure, automation/analytics, security and software delivery — for large US-headquartered enterprises via consulting plus managed/intelligent operations.
Private Late · 2000–5000 people
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