Forward Deployment Engineer — Azure AI

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Onboard requestor and client projects onto the Azure AI platform using approved runbooks and golden paths
• ▹Work closely with teams throughout onboarding, go-live and early operations
• ▹Apply and adapt Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines to project workloads
• ▹Support machine learning workload deployment and lifecycle management on Azure
• ▹Capture gaps, delivery friction and feature requests
• ▹Provide continuous, structured feedback to Platform Engineering
• ▹Improve runbooks, documentation and reusable onboarding patterns
• ▹Uphold security, governance and compliance guardrails during every onboarding

Requirements

• ▹5-8 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, solution engineering or technical consulting
• ▹Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and the Azure Well-Architected Framework
• ▹Experience with core Azure AI, machine learning and platform services
• ▹Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• ▹Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or GitLab CI
• ▹Understanding of machine learning model deployment and lifecycle concepts
• ▹Strong client-facing, consulting and stakeholder communication skills
• ▹Intermediate or higher English

Nice to have

• ▹Azure Machine Learning or Azure AI Foundry
• ▹AKS, Kubernetes and containerisation
• ▹Python scripting and automation
• ▹Experience with Azure OpenAI, LLM, agent or RAG workloads
• ▹Previous solutions engineering, customer engineering or consulting experience

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation
• ▹Career growth and learning opportunities
• ▹Flexibility and ownership
• ▹Collaborative and innovative culture
• ▹Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects with international teams

About the company

Nebius is a Nasdaq-listed (NBIS) company building a full-stack AI cloud platform, headquartered in Amsterdam, with 1,500+ employees and R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel.