Senior Azure AI Engineer (ID#5595)

New Value Solutions, a national IT consulting company, is seeking a Senior Azure Applications and AI Platform Specialist to support the implementation and operation of a secure, governed Microsoft Foundry AI platform.

The successful candidate will be an experienced, hands-on Azure practitioner with enterprise AI delivery experience, strong identity and security expertise, and the ability to integrate AI services with business applications. This role includes platform configuration, document processing, deployment automation, production support, and knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Responsibilities

Assess the existing Azure and AI environment, identify technical and security gaps, and recommend an implementation approach.
Design, configure, and support Microsoft Foundry resources, projects, model deployments, agent services, and connections.
Implement secure networking, identity, monitoring, and governance controls.
Configure Microsoft Entra ID authentication, single sign-on, and secure authorization to downstream applications and data sources.
Develop document extraction and processing solutions using Document Intelligence and OCR to transform structured and unstructured PDFs into JSON or similar formats.
Integrate AI services with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, document repositories, and search indexes.
Apply security, privacy, data governance, and responsible AI controls throughout solution delivery.
Automate infrastructure and application deployments using infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
Validate solution quality, security, performance, availability, supportability, and cost before production release.
Troubleshoot production platform, application, identity, integration, and AI service issues.
Prepare architecture diagrams, configuration records, deployment instructions, runbooks, and support procedures.
Provide coaching, knowledge transfer, and operational handover to internal teams.

Requirements

5+ years of experience implementing Microsoft Azure solutions, including production architecture, security, integration, deployment, and operations.
Recent delivery of at least one production or production-ready Microsoft Foundry or Azure AI Foundry solution.
Hands-on experience configuring Foundry resources, projects, model deployments, access controls, networking, and environment separation.
Experience implementing enterprise SSO and application-to-application authorization using Microsoft Entra ID.
Strong knowledge of Azure networking, private endpoints, DNS, Key Vault, Storage, App Service, Functions, API Management, databases, and monitoring tools.
Experience handling confidential, personal, or regulated information and applying privacy, security, audit, and data governance controls.
Experience integrating applications and AI services through REST APIs, SDKs, data connectors, or messaging services.
Experience with Bicep or Terraform and CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
Knowledge of responsible AI practices, including content safety, prompt-injection controls, grounding, output validation, and human oversight.
Strong troubleshooting, technical documentation, communication, and knowledge-transfer skills.
Ability to work independently and collaborate with internal teams and vendors.

Preferred Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Additional Microsoft certifications in Azure architecture, security, administration, development, DevOps, or cybersecurity architecture.
Experience with Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, Document Intelligence, Content Safety, Microsoft Purview, Defender for Cloud, or Microsoft Sentinel.
Development or integration experience with Python, C#/.NET, JSON, YAML, PowerShell, Azure CLI, containers, or event-driven architectures.
If you have the required experience and are available to work remotely during Vancouver business hours, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those shortlisted will be contacted.

ID# 5595

If you have the required experience and are available to work onsite in Richmond a minimum of three days per week, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those shortlisted will be contacted.