Senior AI Agent Engineer (Claude SDK / AWS Bedrock / Agentic AI)

Position

Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer/AI Engineer

Location: Remote with Travel

Employment type: 3+ months contract role (may possible to extend to 6-12+ month

Looking for a

Senior GenAI DevOps Engineer /AI Engineer who has 15+ years of overall experience and 6-8 years building AI agents and deploying them into production on AWS.

Job Description

Experience: 10-15+ years overall, including hands-on GenAI or agentic AI development.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement AI agents using the Claude Agent SDK (formerly Claude Code SDK).
• Build agent workflows using Python or TypeScript, including tool calling, MCP integrations, and API orchestration.
• Deploy and manage AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.
• Develop automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for agent builds, testing, and deployments.
• Configure AWS IAM, ECR, Docker/container packaging where applicable, and cloud security.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production AI agent performance.
• Implement secure authentication, logging, monitoring, and observability.

Skills to look for

• Skill: Claude Agent SDK - Must-have: Hands-on agent development, not just Claude prompting.
• Skill: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime - Must-have: Actual agent deployment and runtime configuration.
• Skill: GitHub Actions - Must-have: Building CI/CD pipelines independently.
• Skill: Python or TypeScript - Must-have: Strong coding and API integration.
• Skill: AWS Bedrock - Must-have: Model integration and AWS ecosystem knowledge.
• Skill: Docker, AWS ECR, IAM - Strongly preferred: Packaging, deployment, permissions.
• Skill: MCP and tool calling - Strongly preferred: Building agents that execute external tools.
• Skill: Terraform / AWS CDK - Good-to-have: Infrastructure as Code.
• Skill: CloudWatch, security, monitoring - Good-to-have: Production support.