Principal AI Operations & Infra Automation Leader

IDC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

IDC is modernizing its infrastructure by shifting from manual operations to automated, AI-informed processes. The Principal of AI Operations & Infrastructure Automation will design and stand up the automation, tooling, and operating model for a fast-moving, AWS-centric environment.

You will write and review automation, lead a team of automation engineers, and partner with CIO and AWS to re-architect provisioning, monitoring, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or IT operations.
• 3+ years leading automation or AIOps initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end redesign of the infrastructure operating model from manual to automated, self-healing pipelines.
• Define a phased transformation roadmap with milestones and go-live gates.
• Lead change management for the infrastructure team during automation adoption.
• Build the AIOps layer: select and deploy anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and automated remediation.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

AIOps leadership

AWS automation

Terraform/CloudFormation

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tools

Job description

IDC is modernizing its infrastructure by shifting from manual operations to automated, AI-informed processes. The Principal of AI Operations & Infrastructure Automation will design and stand up the automation, tooling, and operating model for a fast-moving, AWS-centric environment.

You will write and review automation, lead a team of automation engineers, and partner with CIO and AWS to re-architect provisioning, monitoring, and incident response.