Job Description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 
MLOps / Platform Engineer will own the deployment, IaC, observability, runtime management, and cost governance across all layers of the Agentic Platform. 

Key Responsibilities

• Build IaC with Terraform or AWS CDK. 
• Implement CI/CD (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). 
• Configure CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry for LLM observability. 
• Manage environment isolation and prompt/model versioning. 
• Implement containerization with Docker, ECS Fargate, or EKS. 
• Track platform costs using CloudWatch budgets. 

Education & Certifications

• Minimum Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar
• Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional OR   Kubernetes/CNCF certifications

Skills Required

• 5+ years in AWS operations, IaC (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD and observability
• Deep AWS operational expertise.
• Strong observability skills
• Proven container orchestration experience.
• High bar for reliability and cost efficiency.

Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
India Employment Benefits include: Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership