Lead AI-Driven DevOps Engineer

Nasdaq, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

401(k) with 6% match

Employee stock purchase program 15%

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Nasdaq, Inc. seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate AI-enabled automation platforms, agents, and orchestration across mission-critical systems and engineering workflows.

You will develop agent orchestration frameworks with LLMs, integrate with internal APIs, ITSM, and CI/CD pipelines, and advance automation patterns with deterministic controls. Global collaboration and reliability at scale are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert-level Python development experience with automation and orchestration.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, Git, REST APIs integration.
• Proficiency in YAML and JSON for configuration and data exchange.
• Experience building AI agents, autonomous systems, or AI-driven automation with LLMs and tool-calling frameworks.
• Ability to design event-driven, workflow-based systems with AI decision logic and deterministic automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve AI agents that automate workflows across ops, engineering, and support.
• Develop agent orchestration frameworks using LLMs, tooling, and structured workflows.
• Build automation pipelines combining AI reasoning with deterministic controls and processes.
• Implement Python-based services for AI agent execution and integration with APIs, ITSM, CI/CD, and observability.
• Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines for AI-enabled services and automation platforms.
• Serve as escalation point for AI/automation issues and document architectures and proofs of concept.

Skills

Python

Automation

Orchestration

CI/CD

REST APIs

YAML/JSON

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Agent frameworks

Event-driven

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

JavaScript

Databases

Job description

Nasdaq, Inc. seeks a Lead DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate AI-enabled automation platforms, agents, and orchestration across mission-critical systems and engineering workflows.

You will develop agent orchestration frameworks with LLMs, integrate with internal APIs, ITSM, and CI/CD pipelines, and advance automation patterns with deterministic controls. Global collaboration and reliability at scale are essential.