Principal AI Infrastructure Architect

Huron
Chicago
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Technical leadership","Collaboration","Troubleshooting","Documentation","Operational reliability"]

Serve as the senior technical authority for an AI operations platform, defining and building governed platform patterns for identity, networking, infrastructure as code, usage telemetry, attribution, and sandbox/service mediation. Lead hands-on architecture across AI control-plane capabilities such as policy enforcement, registration, audit reporting, and exception handling. Partner with security, governance, knowledge, and observability engineers to automate controls and runbooks while guiding onboarding and implementation quality.

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Huron
Huron
3 days ago

Principal AI Infrastructure Architect

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Job Summary

Serve as the senior technical authority for an AI operations platform, defining and building governed platform patterns for identity, networking, infrastructure as code, usage telemetry, attribution, and sandbox/service mediation. Lead hands-on architecture across AI control-plane capabilities such as policy enforcement, registration, audit reporting, and exception handling. Partner with security, governance, knowledge, and observability engineers to automate controls and runbooks while guiding onboarding and implementation quality.
Location: Chicago
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as hands-on technical lead for AI reference architecture, workload patterns, control-plane boundaries, model access, agent execution, and integration decisions.
  • •Define and build approved patterns for Amazon Bedrock, model access, networking, identity, logging, data flow, and production deployment.
  • •Design core AI control-plane patterns for registration, policy enforcement, usage tracking, attribution, quotas, audit reporting, and exception handling.
  • •Build reusable infrastructure-as-code deployment templates, automation, sandbox patterns, MCP or equivalent service mediation, and operational tooling.
  • •Lead usage telemetry implementation, including token reporting, user and project attribution, and cost-management data pipelines, partnering with security/governance/observability engineers to automate controls.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 265,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years designing and building production cloud platforms, AI platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, or distributed systems, including 5+ years with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
  • •Strong AWS architecture experience across identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production operations.
  • •Hands-on engineering skills in at least one modern programming language and an infrastructure automation framework.
  • •Ability to apply AI tools to accelerate architecture, infrastructure coding, code review, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.
  • •Experience with APIs, service integration, secure deployment patterns, event-driven systems, or platform automation.
Experience:Cloud platformsAI platformsDeveloper platformsData platformsDistributed systemsPlatform engineering
Skills:Technical leadershipCollaborationTroubleshootingDocumentationOperational reliability
Tech Stack:AWSAmazon BedrockInfrastructure as codeNetworkingIdentityLoggingObservabilityUsage telemetryAPIsEvent-driven systemsService mediationMCPTemporal

Company Brief

Huron
Huron is a global professional services firm providing consulting and advisory services across healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial sectors, focusing on strategy, operations, technology, and financial transformation.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 2002
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