AI DevOps Engineer, Equinix
$126-205k
OTE
OTE dependent on location
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$126-205k
OTE
OTE dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a builder mindset who leverages AI coding tools to build solutions
- This person needs to have high hands-on dexterity in building, measuring and deploying complex distributed solutions that consist of components from multiple service providers
- They need to have solid background in networking, data and AI technologies
- We are looking for a person who is self-motivated and keeps abreast of fast-moving technological changes and has an innovative and problem-solving mindset in an environment where constant change is the norm
- We need a team-first person because in this job one must constantly collaborate with internal teams, customers and partners
- New to Career in deploying AI solutions
- New to Career in customer facing solution engineering environment (will train)
- Advanced level skills in AI and Cloud technologies
- Basic/Medium level skills in networking technologies
- BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science
What the job involves
- The AI DevOps Engineer in Global Value Advisory team at Equinix is a specialized pre sales individual contributor role that is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of technical PoCs with customers and technology partners, creation of demos and architectural blueprints, doing quantitative performance studies, writing technical whitepapers, and doing presentations and workshops to customers that demonstrate the value of Equinix
- Create and validate AI solution demos and blueprints with internal product team and partners
- Helps sales team with customer meetings and workshops
- Research, evaluate and stay ahead of emerging tools, techniques and technologies
- Provide technical support for new product initiatives through participation beta testing of new solutions
- Identify, develop, update and implement standards and procedures
- Conduct quantitative experiments and write technical white papers
- Work with staff members in the CRO, GMPO, and CDIO organizations on system infrastructure problems, technical concerns
- Meet with technical sales team members to convert customer requirements into a technical Statement of Work
- Create Proofs of Concepts that integrate the Equinix product suite into customer solutions. Looking for a hands-on person who can stitch together reference architectures and solutions
- Help with internal training of technical staff on emerging technologies
- Technologies include:
- AI Technologies: Advanced Hands-On experience leveraging the following:
- AI Gateway technologies like LiteLLM
- Agentic AI Platforms like LangChain/LangFlow/LangGraph
- AI OS like OpenClaw/NemoClaw
- NVIDIA RunAI/MissionControl
- Vector/Graph DB, Delta-sharing, RAG solutions
- MCP/A2A Protocol
- Inferencing technologies like vLLM and Ollama
- End to End AI solution deployment life cycle
- Networking Technologies: Basic/Medium understanding of Networking technologies:
- L3 Technologies - OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, IPv4, IPv6, Multicast
- L2 Technologies - Ethernet, VLAN, VXLAN
- Network platforms like Firewalls, Loadbalancers, SD-WANs, DDoS
- Cloud and Virtualization Technologies: Advanced hands-on experience leveraging:
- Docker container technology
- Cloud AI platforms like Sagemaker, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry
- Cloud storage/data platforms like S3, BigQuery, Redshift
- Serverless Platforms Google CloudRun, AWS Lambda
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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