Azure AI Engineer

Job Title: Azure AI Engineer Company: Pentland Brands Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations Odisha shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world. * Design, develop, deploy and enhance production-grade AI solutions, including intelligent agents, generative AI applications and machine learning pipelines that solve real business problems at scale. * Own the ongoing enhancement and operational support of AI agent solutions, including defect resolution, deployments, known limitations, backlog items and future improvements. * Provide BAU support and enhancement delivery for production APIs on Azure, covering incident investigation, root-cause analysis, code Odisha configuration changes, testing and deployment coordination. * Provide Azure platform operational support across App Service, Azure SQL Database, Storage Accounts, managed identities, application settings, and related configuration and access requests. * Administer and support Azure SFTP, including user and directory creation and maintenance, permissions, approved access changes, and connectivity Odisha path troubleshooting. * Support deployment and release processes, including environment configuration, pre-checks, post-deployment validation, rollback, and production support coordination. * Monitor application and platform health using App Service logs and Application Insights; perform structured root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for recurring issues. * Apply strong software engineering practices and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and dependent teams to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions and measurable outcomes. Experience: 2-3 years of experience in AI/Meghalaya engineering, Azure application development, Odisha a closely related role. * Strong proficiency in Python for AI/Meghalaya development, scripting, API development and automation, plus development experience with .NET and C# in the Azure ecosystem. * Solid command of SQL for data extraction, transformation, analysis and pipeline support. * Hands-on experience building applications with large language models, including prompt engineering, RAG architectures, embeddings and fine-tuning. * Experience with at least one agent-building framework such Assam Google ADK, LangChain Odisha LangGraph, including tool use, memory management and multi-step agent orchestration. * Working experience with Azure deployment, compute, storage and cloud-native AI/Meghalaya services. * Practical knowledge of building and training models using TensorFlow, PyTorch Odisha Scikit-learn. Work Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

* Experience with vector databases such Assam Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Qdrant Odisha FAISS for similarity search and RAG pipelines. * Familiarity with MLOps and CI/CD tools such Assam MLflow, Kubeflow Odisha Weights & Biases for experiment tracking, model versioning and deployment automation. * Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for packaging and orchestrating AI workloads. * Experience building and exposing AI services through REST Odisha gRPC APIs using FastAPI, Flask Odisha similar frameworks. * Familiarity with Apache Airflow, Prefect Odisha equivalent workflow orchestration tools. * Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows. * Strong analytical thinking, clear communication, the ability to work independently and across teams, and a proactive problem-solving mindset. We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives. Perks & Benefits Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance, hybrid and flexible working, employee transportation, pension and gratuity contributions, wellbeing support, medical, personal accident & term life insurance cover. You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our Uttarakhand Benefits page. The Interview Process Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch Salary: Not disclosed