Azure Technical Lead – AI/GenAI

Job Title: Azure Technical Lead-AI/GEN AI with our client.
Location: Iselin, NJ

Please find the job description below.

Candidates should  have P&C insurance experience

Job Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Azure Technical Lead with strong expertise across Azure Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and AI/GenAI application development.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade AI solutions on Azure. This role requires someone who can bridge AI application development with Azure cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Cloud & Platform Engineering
Design and implement scalable, secure Azure cloud architectures for AI workloads.
Build and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services supporting enterprise AI applications.
Deploy applications using AKS, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps.
Design Azure networking using VNets, private endpoints, network isolation, and related security controls.
Implement Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, encryption, and secrets management.

AI / GenAI Development

Develop and productionize AI/GenAI applications using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry/Studio, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Document Intelligence.
Design and implement RAG pipelines, prompt orchestration, vector search, and LLM-based solutions.
Develop AI applications using Python, .NET/C#, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript.
Integrate AI solutions with enterprise APIs, applications, data platforms, and business systems.
DevOps & Infrastructure as Code
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
Automate application, infrastructure, configuration, prompt, and model deployments.
Provision Azure resources using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
Establish deployment standards, automation, version control, testing, security scanning, and release governance.

Required Skills

Must Have
Strong hands-on Azure Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering
Strong Azure DevOps / DevOps / CI/CD experience
Terraform, Bicep, or ARM
AKS / Kubernetes / Docker
Azure networking, VNets, private endpoints
Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identity, Key Vault
Azure monitoring and production support
Azure OpenAI / Azure AI
GenAI / LLM / RAG
Azure AI Search
Azure AI Foundry/Studio
Azure AI Document Intelligence
Strong programming experience in Python, .NET/C#, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript