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Principal Technical Consultant - AI/ Azure Cloud Platform Engineering
$190K–$220K
United States +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Location
- United States
Chicago, Illinois
New York, New York - Experience
- 8+ years in engineering or technical consulting; includes 5+ years delivering Azure infrastructure, landing zones, or migrations and at least 18 months delivering GenAI or agent systems to production.
About the job
Leads client engagements to assess, design, build, and hand over Azure platforms and production-ready AI agent platforms, while guiding delivery teams and enabling client staff.
What you'll do
- Lead Azure assessments, landing zone engineering, migrations, and AI agent platform delivery, including infrastructure, agents, pipelines, evaluation, and governance.
- Lead consultants and client engagements, setting technical direction, shaping scope, managing delivery, and presenting recommendations to stakeholders.
- Produce operational and governance documentation and deliver client workshops and enablement.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in engineering or technical consulting, including 5+ years delivering Azure infrastructure, landing zones, or migrations, and at least 18 months delivering GenAI or agent systems to production.
- Experience leading small consulting or engineering teams on client work.
- Hands-on enterprise Azure landing zone and migration delivery, including Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Migrate, and network design.
- Hands-on Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio experience, plus IaC and CI/CD ownership using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM and GitHub Actions.
Nice to have
- Listed Microsoft credentials, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or GitHub Actions certification (GH-200).
- Experience in regulated industries, with AI governance boards, Microsoft Purview, Application Insights tracing, Copilot Agent Kit, or Power Platform administration.
Pay
USD 190,000–220,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
Microsoft Azure, Azure Migrate, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub Actions, Python, Terraform, Bicep
AI focus
Designs and delivers enterprise AI agent platforms, develops agents, implements governance, evaluation and safety frameworks, and advises on model selection and deployment.
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