AI Infrastructure Engineer (Senior Associate)
Huron Consulting Group2 days ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate approved model-access patterns for governed AI usage, including Amazon Bedrock where applicable.
- Build infrastructure as code, deployment automation, reusable platform components, and CI/CD templates from approved reference architectures.
- Implement usage telemetry, token and model usage reporting, attribution, quotas, and cost-management data pipelines.
- Deploy and operate sandbox patterns for coding agents and tool-using agents.
- Build governed tool and service mediation patterns for AI applications and agents using MCP or equivalent approaches.
- Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, audit evidence capture, and operational reporting for onboarded workloads.
- Create reusable onboarding templates and reference implementations for client-facing, IT, product, analytics, consulting, engineering, and operations teams.
- Build infrastructure and platform components supporting Huron’s go-to-market teams in partnership with the AI Capability Center.
- Use AI tools to accelerate infrastructure coding, automation, debugging, testing, documentation, and runbook development.
- Define and maintain runbooks, support models, incident paths, and operational handoffs.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and operating production cloud or platform infrastructure, including hands-on AWS, infrastructure as code, automation, or production operations experience.
- Solid infrastructure as code experience.
- Experience with cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, deployment automation, and operational support.
- Software engineering or scripting skills for automation and platform tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools for infrastructure automation, code generation, debugging, testing, or documentation.
- Familiarity with APIs, event-driven systems, service integration, and secure deployment patterns.
- Ability to implement defined patterns and requirements while working through ambiguity with guidance from senior engineers and architects.
- Preferred experience with Amazon Bedrock or other managed AI/model platforms.
- Preferred experience with token and cost telemetry, usage attribution, chargeback, showback, or FinOps data pipelines.
- Preferred experience with durable agentic AI orchestration platforms, containerized or sandboxed execution environments, agent tools, MCP, model gateways, API gateways, or secure service broker patterns.
- Preferred experience supporting regulated, client-confidential, PHI, PII, or other sensitive workloads.
- Ability to travel as needed.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage and other wellness programs.
- Eligibility to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program.
- Flexible living locations across the United States.
- Estimated base salary of $120,000-$165,000; total estimated compensation including annual incentive opportunity is $138,000-$189,000.
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.