Position: Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer /AI Engineer Location: Remote with travel Employment type: Contract position Notes:The key is time zone coverage and so we can expand our search across the West Coast - remote/hybrid but necessarily located in the western time zones. You must be comfortable traveling to the client site for workshops/meetings. Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer /AI Engineer who has 10-15+ years of overall experience and 6-8 years building AI agents and deploying them into production on AWS. The role combines AI agent development (60%) and DevOps/CI/CD engineering (40%). This is a suggested split based on the responsibilities you've described.

Job Description

AI Agent Engineer (Claude SDK / AWS AgentCore / GitHub Actions) Experience: 10-15+ years overall, including hands-on GenAI or agentic AI development. Key responsibilities: Design, develop, and implement AI agents using the Claude Agent SDK (formerly Claude Code SDK). Build agent workflows using Python or TypeScript, including tool calling, MCP integrations, and API orchestration. Deploy and manage AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. Develop automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for agent builds, testing, and deployments. Configure AWS IAM, ECR, Docker/container packaging where applicable, and cloud security. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production AI agent performance. Implement secure authentication, logging, monitoring, and observability. Skill Priority description Claude Agent SDK Must-have Hands-on agent development, not just Claude prompting Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Must-have Actual agent deployment and runtime configuration GitHub Actions Must-have Building CI/CD pipelines independently Python or TypeScript Must-have Strong coding and API integration AWS Bedrock Must-have Model integration and AWS ecosystem knowledge Docker, AWS ECR, IAM Strongly preferred Packaging, deployment, permissions MCP and tool calling Strongly preferred Building agents that execute external tools Terraform / AWS CDK Good-to-have Infrastructure as Code CloudWatch, security, monitoring Good-to-have Production support