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AI Operations Engineer

AI Operations Engineer

Jobtailor • Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
18 days ago
Job description
  • Lead operational management of AI-powered workflows, applications and agents across the organisation
  • Coordinate deployment of AI applications, agents and integrations across development, test and production environments
  • Ensure AWS, Azure and related cloud environments are secure, observable and operationally ready
  • Manage environment configuration, secrets, credentials and dependency mapping
  • Improve operational repeatability through infrastructure-as-code, automated configuration, deployment controls and rollback mechanisms
  • Oversee credentials, permissions and access controls using Microsoft Entra and Salesforce
  • Manage the lifecycle of AI agents and automations, including configuration, updates, version control and decommissioning
  • Maintain and govern integrations between AI tools and enterprise platforms
  • Own support processes, manage incidents and troubleshoot operational issues
  • Diagnose issues across cloud infrastructure, identity platforms, SaaS applications, APIs, workflow tooling and agent orchestration layers
  • Track usage, access patterns, workflow execution and operational health
  • Ensure compliance with security, data protection, access control and responsible AI policies
  • Develop and maintain operational playbooks, runbooks, recovery procedures and documentation
  • Collaborate with Technology, Security, Product and Business teams
  • Manage AI platform vendors including Microsoft, Salesforce, Anthropic and Mindflow
  • Drive continuous improvement in reliability, usability, security and efficiency of AI operations

Requirements

  • Experience with operationalising AI-powered workflows, applications and agents
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Entra, Salesforce, Mindflow and Claude
  • Experience coordinating AI application, agent and integration deployments across environments
  • Experience with AWS, Azure and related cloud environments
  • Knowledge of environment-specific configuration, secrets, credentials and dependency mapping
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, automated configuration, deployment controls and rollback mechanisms
  • Knowledge of identity and access management, permissions and access controls
  • Experience managing AI agents and automation lifecycles, including configuration, updates, version control and decommissioning
  • Experience governing integrations between AI tools and enterprise platforms, APIs and internal systems
  • Experience with incident management, troubleshooting and cross-layer issue resolution
  • Knowledge of monitoring, usage oversight and operational health tracking
  • Knowledge of security, data protection, access control and responsible AI governance
  • Experience developing operational playbooks, runbooks, recovery procedures and documentation
  • Ability to collaborate with Technology, Security, Product and Business teams
  • Ability to manage relationships with AI platform providers and coordinate escalations

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing AI-powered workflows and applications, ensuring operational readiness across cloud environments like AWS and Azure. Proficient in incident management, security compliance, and developing operational documentation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • AI Workflow Operationalization
  • AWS Cloud Management
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Microsoft Entra Knowledge
  • Incident Management

Hard Skills

  • AI Application Deployment
  • Environment Configuration
  • Automated Configuration
  • Access Control Management
  • AI Agent Lifecycle Management
  • Integration Governance
  • Operational Health Tracking
  • Version Control
  • Troubleshooting
  • Security Compliance

Soft Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Relationship Management

Industry Keywords

  • AI Governance
  • Data Protection
  • Operational Playbooks
  • Runbooks
  • Deployment Controls

Tools & Technologies

  • Microsoft Entra
  • Salesforce
  • Mindflow
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Claude

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AI Operations Engineer • Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA