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Softcard (acquired by Google)

Cloud Engineer – AI Gateway

Softcard (acquired by Google)

. Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeBirmingham • Alabama • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates advanced knowledge of AI gateway architecture and cloud services, with hands-on experience in deploying and operating scalable platforms in cloud and Kubernetes environments. Proficient in securing AI services and implementing monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting practices to ensure operational excellence.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AI Gateway ArchitectureCloud Services (GCP, Azure, AWS)Kubernetes EnvironmentsInfrastructure as CodeSecurity Controls

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Hard Skills
AI Model IntegrationPlatform AutomationMonitoring and AlertingTroubleshooting and Root Cause AnalysisCapacity PlanningPython ProgrammingScripting Languages (Linux Shell, PowerShell)Declarative ConfigurationPolicy-Based ControlsCost Optimization
Soft Skills
Effective CommunicationCollaborationMentoring
Industry Keywords
Generative AIContent SafetyData ProtectionResponsible AI GovernanceOperational Runbooks

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable AI gateway platforms across cloud and Kubernetes environments
  • Integrate approved AI models, agents, and services through standardized gateway interfaces and reusable patterns
  • Automate platform provisioning, configuration, policy deployment, and release processes
  • Implement model routing, failover, rate limits, token controls, and caching
  • Secure AI traffic using identity, access, encryption, credential protection, private connectivity, and policy-based controls
  • Apply prompt and response guardrails, content-safety policies, data protection, and responsible AI controls
  • Establish monitoring and alerting for requests, tokens, latency, errors, model usage, costs, and policy enforcement
  • Troubleshoot platform, network, provider, and policy issues and lead root cause analysis for production incidents
  • Manage platform capacity, availability, upgrades, resiliency testing, backups, and disaster recovery
  • Define onboarding standards, reference architectures, service-level objectives, and operational runbooks
  • Partner with security, cloud, data, architecture, and application teams to enable compliant AI adoption
  • Evaluate emerging AI gateway capabilities and recommend adoption based on security, scalability, supportability, and cost
  • Manage project priorities, deliverables, operational commitments, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Mentor engineers and promote consistent platform engineering, security, and governance practices
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience or an equivalent combination
  • Advanced knowledge of AI gateway architecture and cloud services across Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services
  • Hands-on experience deploying and operating highly available platform services in cloud and Kubernetes environments
  • Experience integrating generative AI models, agents, and services through standardized gateway interfaces and reusable patterns
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code, declarative configuration, automated testing, and deployment pipelines
  • Knowledge of model routing, load balancing, failover, rate limiting, token controls, caching, and usage-based cost optimization
  • Experience securing AI services through authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, private connectivity, and policy-based controls
  • Knowledge of prompt and response guardrails, content safety, data protection, auditability, and responsible AI governance
  • Proficiency with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, usage metering, and cost analysis for distributed AI workloads
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across platform, network, provider, policy, and application integration layers
  • Knowledge of capacity planning, service-level objectives, resiliency testing, upgrades, backup validation, and disaster recovery
  • Ability to define reference architectures, onboarding standards, operational runbooks, and scalable platform engineering practices
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with security, cloud, data, architecture, application, and business teams
  • Experience with Python and one or more scripting languages, such as Linux shell or PowerShell, for platform automation and integration
  • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, evaluate emerging capabilities, and mentor engineers

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Healthcare coverage options
  • 401(k)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vacation pay
  • Sick pay
  • Holiday pay
  • Hybrid work arrangement