AI Engineer with Cloud and DevOps Experience

Title: Experienced AI Engineer with Cloud & DevOps Skills for an AI Project We are looking for an experienced AI engineer with strong cloud and DevOps skills to help develop, deploy and improve an AI project. We need someone who can contribute hands-on, explain technical decisions clearly and deliver well-documented work. Responsibilities Review the project’s current requirements, architecture and implementation. Develop or improve AI functionality, backend services and API integrations. Configure and manage the cloud infrastructure needed to support the application. Build or improve CI/CD pipelines, testing and deployment processes. Address security, access management, logging, monitoring and reliability. Troubleshoot problems and document the investigation, solution and verification. Provide clear progress updates and a practical technical handover. The initial scope and deliverables will be agreed after discussing the project. Please explain which areas you can confidently own. Required experience Practical experience building and deploying AI applications. Strong Python skills and experience integrating APIs. Cloud engineering experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Experience with Git, CI/CD, Docker and infrastructure as code. Understanding of secrets management, cloud security and operational monitoring. Strong spoken and written English, including the ability to explain technical concepts during project discussions. Experience with LLM applications, RAG, AI agents, Kubernetes or MLOps is helpful. Please distinguish your strongest skills from tools you have only explored. To apply Please submit an Upwork proposal expressing your interest and include: One or two relevant AI or cloud projects, describing your personal contribution. Your strongest AI, cloud and DevOps skills. A brief example of a deployment or reliability problem you resolved. Your availability, time zone and proposed rate. Relevant existing work samples available through your Upwork profile or portfolio. Please share only work you are authorized to disclose. No unpaid custom implementation or trial project is required. Interested professionals should apply through this posting. We will follow up through Upwork Messages. All pre-contract discussions and payments will remain on Upwork.