DevOps Engineer - Senior Vice President

iCapital; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all full-time employees

Employer-matched retirement plan

Generously subsidized healthcare

Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

iCapital is looking for a highly collaborative MLOps/DevOps Engineer in New York to ensure production and development environments operate smoothly. With 15+ years of relevant experience, you'll design and operate MLOps pipelines and modernize cloud infrastructure. The role offers a base salary from $180,000 to $230,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package including equity, retirement plans, and unlimited PTO. This position allows remote work on Fridays.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with AWS.
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud networking.
• Excellent communication skills to work across teams.
• Experience operating in regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate MLOps pipelines for ML lifecycle.
• Enable production workloads for Generative AI systems.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for system health.

Skills

MLOps expertise

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

Python scripting

Monitoring and observability

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Terraform

Job description

About the Role

The Platform Infrastructure team at iCapital plays a critical role in ensuring that both production and development environments operate smoothly, securely, and reliably. This role leverages advanced cloud capabilities to support the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles, with a strong emphasis on quality to meet the ever‑growing demands of our clients.

We are seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious MLOps/DevOps Engineers with deep expertise in machine learning operations, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, and security. This role requires hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating scalable DevOps and enterprise‑grade MLOps platforms, including model lifecycle automation, observability, and governance.

As a Platform Engineer, you will wear multiple hats in a highly visible role, partnering closely with engineering, security, data, and business teams to deliver secure, reliable, and highly automated platforms that support both application and machine‑learning workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate MLOps pipelines supporting the full ML lifecycle (training, validation, deployment, monitoring).
• Enable production workloads for AI/ML and Generative AI systems, including LLM‑based services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML services and supporting infrastructure.
• Build and manage cloud‑native infrastructure on AWS, with heavy use of Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, and artifact management across environments.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI platforms.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers to operationalize models and standardize deployment patterns.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for system health, model performance, and drift.
• Enforce security, compliance, and governance requirements for AI workloads.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Document standards, best practices, and reference architectures for MLOps and AI infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with AWS as a primary cloud.
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including deployment and monitoring concerns.
• Hands‑on experience with machine learning platforms, particularly AWS SageMaker (required).
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud networking.
• Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and scripting/programming in Python or similar languages.
• Solid Linux, systems, and troubleshooting fundamentals.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams.
• Direct experience with MLOps platforms and tooling (model registries, experiment tracking, feature stores).
• Exposure to Generative AI / LLM workloads in production environments.
• Familiarity with data stores commonly used in ML systems (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, object storage).
• Experience operating in regulated or fintech environments.
• Background in cost optimization for compute‑intensive workloads.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• AWS certifications are a plus.

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $230,000 depending on experience. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full‑time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer‑matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer‑paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

Employees in this role will work in the office Monday‑Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

Equal Employment Opportunity

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.