Lead AI Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

AEP Service Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 137,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401(k) match

AEP Pension

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

American Electric Power seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to build and operate secure, scalable AI infrastructure across AWS and on‑prem environments. You’ll own cloud foundations, networking, and observability while collaborating with security, architecture, and AI teams to deliver production‑ready, cost‑effective infrastructure.

Responsibilities include enabling Bedrock/SageMaker, developing IaC templates, and designing edge/on‑prem AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS engineering experience including IAM, VPC, compute, storage, encryption/KMS.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise including EKS, ROSA/OpenShift, security.
• Solid networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with API gateways, integration patterns, and securing services across environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform required; Ansible, Python or PowerShell preferred).
• Experience monitoring and cost management for cloud environments and on-premises/disconnected environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; able to work independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting technical recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate AI cloud foundations across AWS and on‑prem environments.
• Engineer compute, storage and networking foundations for AI workloads including GPUs.
• Enable AI platform services such as Bedrock and SageMaker with proper governance.
• Create IaC modules, templates and pipelines for rapid AI deployment within guardrails.
• Maintain on‑prem AI infrastructure for edge and disconnected use cases.
• Support AI in disconnected environments with patching, monitoring, and recovery.

Skills

AWS Expertise

Kubernetes (EKS)

Networking fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security basics

Cost monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

American Electric Power seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to build and operate secure, scalable AI infrastructure across AWS and on‑prem environments. You’ll own cloud foundations, networking, and observability while collaborating with security, architecture, and AI teams to deliver production‑ready, cost‑effective infrastructure.

Responsibilities include enabling Bedrock/SageMaker, developing IaC templates, and designing edge/on‑prem AI infrastructure.