Assistant VP, AI Platform & Cloud Operations

State Street; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street in Austin, TX seeks an AI Platform and Ops Lead (AVP) with deep Generative AI, ML, cloud, and platform-operations experience to design, deploy, and run secure, scalable AI platforms across multiple clouds.

Role emphasizes automation, IAM, observability, resiliency, and governance, partnering across security, risk, architecture, and business teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating Azure, AWS, and private cloud.
• Experience with Terraform, Backstage, Harness, CI/CD pipelines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, or other automation languages.
• Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, resiliency testing, incident management, or production support experience.
• Understanding of AI/ML lifecycle concepts, LLM services, model hosting patterns, responsible AI controls, MLOps, observability, and production readiness practices is preferred.
• Experience operating in a regulated financial services, risk-managed, or highly controlled technology environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and day-to-day operations of secure, well-managed enterprise AI platform environments across Azure, AWS, and private cloud.
• Configure, manage, and operationalize cloud and platform services including Virtual Networks, Kubernetes, VMs, secrets management, messaging, storage, databases, AI/ML studios, LLM services, and Databricks.
• Build and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code patterns, deployment pipelines, and repeatable platform runbooks for production releases.
• Use native Azure, AWS, and private cloud services to meet security, resiliency, observability, and compliance requirements.
• Drive IAM, configuration management, monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, and operational readiness strategies for AI platform workloads.
• Partner with application, data, risk, cyber, architecture, and business teams to translate platform needs into reliable AI operations capabilities.
• Support production readiness reviews, resiliency testing, disaster recovery planning, vulnerability remediation, and platform control evidence for regulated AI solutions.
• Contribute to platform standards, governance practices, documentation, service onboarding, and continuous improvement of AI platform operations.

Skills

Generative AI

Machine Learning

Platform operations

Cloud platforms

Automation

Observability

Security

Governance

Identity management

Incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Backstage

Harness

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

State Street in Austin, TX seeks an AI Platform and Ops Lead (AVP) with deep Generative AI, ML, cloud, and platform-operations experience to design, deploy, and run secure, scalable AI platforms across multiple clouds.

Role emphasizes automation, IAM, observability, resiliency, and governance, partnering across security, risk, architecture, and business teams to deliver production-ready AI solutions.