AI Infrastructure Engineer

Who We Are

Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. As catalysts of progress for more than 40 years, our strategies guide the world’s leading brands. We accelerate growth by creating a seamless flow between primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data, providing consulting and advisory services from insights through implementation. Based on a profound understanding of what drives human beings and markets, we identify actions that build brands, enhance customer experiences, inspire product innovation and boost business productivity. We listen, learn, question, discover, innovate, and deliver—for each other and our clients—to make the world work better for people.

Role Overview
We are looking for a skilled Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of experience to design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure. The candidate will work across Azure and AWS environments, leveraging Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native services to support production-grade applications.

This role requires strong experience in provisioning, automating, and managing infrastructure for scalable applications and collaborating closely with development and DevOps teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure

• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated provisioning

• Provision and optimize production environments through the development pipeline ensuring optimization for high availability, performance, cost and security

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments, primarily through GitHub Actions

• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure uptime across production systems

• Collaborate with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements

• Manage cloud services (compute, storage, networking, application services, database) across environments

• Implement security best practices, access control, and compliance standards

• Automate scaling, backup, and disaster recovery strategies

• Continuously optimize infrastructure cost, performance, and reliability

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure / Cloud / DevOps engineering

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms

• Proficiency in Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

• Experience with Docker containerization and microservices deployment

• Experience in provisioning and managing production-grade scalable applications

• Knowledge of Application Services (App Services, Load Balancers, APIs, etc.)

• Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles

• Experience with monitoring & logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps)

• Strong Linux/system administration skills

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities

• Experience with IAM, RBAC, and cloud security models (Azure AD, AWS IAM)
  Familiarity with secrets management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
  Understanding of DevSecOps practices and security scanning tools

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for automation

Desirable Skills

• Strongly preferred experience with Kubernetes / container orchestration

• Certifications like:

• AWS Solutions Architect

• Azure Administrator / Architect

• Terraform Associate

• Experience with multi-cloud environments and cost optimization