Lead Cloud AI Infrastructure Engineer

AEP Service Corporation; Gahanna (OH); On-site; USD 137,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive

401(k) matching

AEP Pension

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

AEP Service Corporation is seeking a senior Cloud Engineer to design and operate AI-focused infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments. You will build scalable foundations, enable Bedrock/SageMaker, and ensure cost-effective, secure deployments.

You will collaborate with Cybersecurity, Architecture and Compliance teams to meet governance standards, while driving automation and IaC across cloud and edge environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS engineering including IAM, VPC, compute, storage, encryption/KMS
• Kubernetes expertise in EKS, ROSA or OpenShift with security focus
• Strong networking fundamentals for cloud and on-premise connectivity
• Experience with API gateways and service exposure across environments
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform required) with CI/CD
• Cloud security, IAM, and compliance knowledge
• Monitoring and cost management for cloud and on-premises environments
• Analytical, troubleshooting and independent problem solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical audiences
• Architecture experience and AI/ML workload exposure is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS accounts, landing zones and patterns for AI workloads
• Engineer compute, storage, networking foundations including GPUs
• Enable AI services like Bedrock and SageMaker with private connectivity
• Develop IaC modules and pipelines for rapid AI deployments
• Design and maintain on-prem AI infrastructure for edge cases
• Support AI in disconnected environments with patching and recovery
• Create deployment standards, runbooks and support processes
• Integrate on-prem AI with identity, security, and governance
• Address drift, vulnerabilities, and attestations
• Onboard new AI use cases with proper controls from day one
• Establish FinOps for AI workloads, tagging, budgets and forecasting
• Provide monitoring, logging, dashboards and observability
• Define SLAs for AI platforms and model endpoints
• Support incident response and root-cause analysis
• Perform cloud engineering tasks: provisioning, upgrades, lifecycle
• Deploy Kubernetes clusters with GPU scheduling and security hardening
• Implement networking with VPC, Direct Connect, VPN, TLS
• Prepare cost justifications and technical documentation
• Collaborate with PMs, architects and vendors
• Participate in on-call and after-hours support

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Networking

VPC

Security

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Cost management

Git CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

EKS

ROSA/OpenShift

Job description

AEP Service Corporation is seeking a senior Cloud Engineer to design and operate AI-focused infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments. You will build scalable foundations, enable Bedrock/SageMaker, and ensure cost-effective, secure deployments.

You will collaborate with Cybersecurity, Architecture and Compliance teams to meet governance standards, while driving automation and IaC across cloud and edge environments.