Cloud Architect / AI Platform Owner
Excelia
Do you have experience in Cloud and AI and are you looking for a new challenge? Then this opportunity is for you!
Position: Cloud Architect / AI Platform Owner
Location: Brussels, Belgium (1x per week in the office)
Main responsibilities:
- AI Stack Standardization: Select and maintain the enterprise AI stack (models, frameworks, orchestrations, vector stores) and define approval processes from POC to production.
- Instruction Management: Design and deploy tooling for instruction hierarchy, including versioning, deployment, and monitoring.
- Guardrails & Safety: Implement technical guardrails (sandboxing, policy enforcement, AI firewalls) and real-time detection of policy violations.
- Developer Experience: Provide self-service capabilities (IDEs, APIs, templates) and "paved road" workflows to enable teams while preventing shadow IT.
- Observability & FinOps: Ensure end-to-end visibility of agent behavior and manage cost allocation/optimization for inference and compute.
- Governance & Security: Integrate EU AI Act principles (traceability, explainability) and lead secure development policies.
- Technical Skills: * Strong experience in Cloud & Platform engineering (Azure/AWS) with an AI focus.
- Deep knowledge of LLMs and agentic AI patterns (MCP, A2A, tool-use, planning/execution loops).
- Experience with MLOps/Model serving (Azure AI, Bedrock, RAG architectures).
- Knowledge of Policy-as-code (e.g., OPA) and AI content safety filtering.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
- Experience: * Minimum 10 years of all-round IT experience.
- 8+ years in cloud platform engineering or enterprise architecture.
- 3+ years of proven experience with AI/ML in a production context.
- Languages: Fluent in English, plus proficiency in Dutch and/or French.