Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered applications using Azure OpenAI / OpenAI.
- Implement RAG patterns, prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector search.
- Build and maintain cloud-native backend services and REST APIs.
- Architect and deploy scalable solutions on Azure App Services, Azure Functions, and AKS.
- Ensure security, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions).
- Implement logging, monitoring, and observability for production workloads.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.
- Strong Python development (primary) for backend and LLM workflows.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs & GenAI: o Azure OpenAI / OpenAI / Hugging Face o Prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases
- Microsoft Azure expertise, including: o App Services, Azure Functions, AKS o API Management, Key Vault, Cognitive Search o Blob Storage, SQL / Cosmos DB o VNet, Private Endpoints
- Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and CI/CD.
- Strong understanding of security (OAuth2/OIDC, Azure AD, OWASP).
