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Job Description: Position Location: Remote Pay Range: $90.00 - $113.00/hour. This is a *** contract No C2C/NO Corp To Corp Standard business hours - candidate must be available to work EST. Required Skills and Experience: · 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading high-visibility projects · Deep expertise in Semantic Kernel for .NET 8+ · CI/CD pipelines experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for automated builds and deployments We’re seeking a hands-on technical leader to architect, build, and operate AI Agents powered by Microsoft Semantic Kernel. You’ll own end-to-end delivery: from prototyping and containerizing AI workloads, to setting up observability, to deploying and scaling in Azure. A .NET background is preferred. Key Responsibilities · Lead design and implementation of AI Agents using Semantic Kernel, orchestrating prompts, skills, memory, and plugins · Containerize services into Docker images; author and maintain Dockerfiles and multi-stage CI/CD pipelines · Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Azure · Integrate with Azure AI services (OpenAI, Cognitive Services) for embedding, completions, and vector stores · Instrument services for observability on Azure · Define and enforce best practices for secure configuration, secret management (Azure Key Vault), and identity (Managed Identities) · Collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and architects to integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge bases Job Description: Position Location: Remote Pay Range: $90.00 - $113.00/hour. This is a *** contract No C2C/NO Corp To Corp Standard business hours - candidate must be available to work EST. Required Skills and Experience: · 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading high-visibility projects · Deep expertise in Semantic Kernel for .NET 8+ · CI/CD pipelines experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for automated builds and deployments We’re seeking a hands-on technical leader to architect, build, and operate AI Agents powered by Microsoft Semantic Kernel. You’ll own end-to-end delivery: from prototyping and containerizing AI workloads, to setting up observability, to deploying and scaling in Azure. A .NET background is preferred. Key Responsibilities · Lead design and implementation of AI Agents using Semantic Kernel, orchestrating prompts, skills, memory, and plugins · Containerize services into Docker images; author and maintain Dockerfiles and multi-stage CI/CD pipelines · Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Azure · Integrate with Azure AI services (OpenAI, Cognitive Services) for embedding, completions, and vector stores · Instrument services for observability on Azure · Define and enforce best practices for secure configuration, secret management (Azure Key Vault), and identity (Managed Identities) · Collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and architects to integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge bases

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