Senior AI Platform & Cloud Operations Lead

State Street; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street seeks an AI Platform and Ops Lead to helm secure, resilient AI platforms across Azure, AWS, and private clouds. You will drive automation, IaC practices, and production readiness for enterprise AI workloads, collaborating with security, risk, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes governance, observability, and scalable operations, enabling compliant, production‑ready AI solutions for complex enterprise use cases.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of IT/cloud engineering or related experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and operating Azure, AWS or private cloud environments.
• Familiarity with IaC, CI/CD, and production monitoring processes.
• Understanding of governance, resiliency, and security controls for AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and day-to-day operations of enterprise AI platform environments across cloud and private clouds.
• Configure and operationalize cloud services, networks, and data platforms for AI workloads.
• Develop automation, IaC patterns, and deployment pipelines for scalable releases.
• Ensure security, resiliency, observability, and compliance for AI platform workloads.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate needs into reliable platform operations.
• Support platform readiness reviews, disaster recovery, and incident response planning.
• Contribute to platform standards, governance, and onboarding processes.
• Drive continuous improvement of AI platform operations.

Skills

Cloud engineering

MLOps

Platform operations

Automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

4+ years IT/cloud engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Backstage

Harness

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Databricks

Virtual Networks

Secrets Store

Job description

State Street seeks an AI Platform and Ops Lead to helm secure, resilient AI platforms across Azure, AWS, and private clouds. You will drive automation, IaC practices, and production readiness for enterprise AI workloads, collaborating with security, risk, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes governance, observability, and scalable operations, enabling compliant, production‑ready AI solutions for complex enterprise use cases.