AI Infrastructure Architect - Senior Manager
Huron Consulting Group2 days ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead AI reference architecture, workload patterns, control-plane boundaries, model access, agent execution, and integration decisions.
- Build AWS and Amazon Bedrock patterns for identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production deployment.
- Design control-plane capabilities for registration, policy enforcement, usage tracking, attribution, quotas, audit reporting, and exception handling.
- Develop reusable infrastructure as code, deployment templates, automation, sandbox patterns, service mediation, and operational tooling.
- Implement usage telemetry, token reporting, user and project attribution, and cost-management data pipelines.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to AI infrastructure engineers through design and code reviews.
- Partner with security, governance, knowledge, observability, and AI capability teams to automate controls, evaluation, knowledge access, and audit evidence.
- Review workload onboarding, document reference architectures and runbooks, and establish engineering standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and building production cloud platforms, AI platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, or distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
- Strong AWS architecture experience across identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production operations.
- Hands-on engineering experience in at least one modern programming language and infrastructure automation framework.
- Experience using AI tools for platform engineering, automation, code generation, code review, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, or operational improvement.
- Experience with APIs, service integration, secure deployment patterns, event-driven systems, or platform automation.
- Ability to design for security, auditability, cost visibility, operational reliability, and reuse.
- Experience translating business, governance, and risk requirements into pragmatic engineering patterns.
- Preferred: experience with Amazon Bedrock, MCP or comparable service mediation, durable agentic AI orchestration, sandboxed execution, secure agent runtimes, token and cost telemetry, FinOps data pipelines, regulated workloads, or mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Flexible living locations across the United States and travel as needed.
- Medical, dental, vision, and other wellness benefits.
- Eligibility for Huron’s annual incentive compensation program.
- Estimated base salary of $175,000-$245,000; total estimated compensation including annual incentive opportunity is $210,000-$294,000.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that provides strategy, operations, digital, and technology consulting to healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial organizations. Revenue comes from advisory and implementation engagements, including cloud transformations on platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, and Oracle, and software like the Huron Research Suite for universities. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ.