Senior AI Platform Director — Multi-Cloud & FinOps Leader

Verizon Communications; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a senior AI/ML platform engineer to own gateway engineering and developer platform initiatives. You will design intelligent routing, multi-provider failover, and secure onboarding on a Kubernetes/Istio stack.

You will lead a small team, drive cost optimization, and partner with BU teams to deploy at least five BU integrations within six months while maintaining strict SLAs and governance across GCP/AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Technical leadership experience managing software or platform engineers.
• Experience running Kubernetes at production scale.
• Experience operating in multi-cloud environments (GCP and AWS).
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure: model serving, inference optimization, and LLMOps.
• Experience building developer platforms — SDKs, CLIs, developer portals, or self-service onboarding.
• Experience with FinOps or cost allocation models (chargeback, budget enforcement, usage attribution).

Responsibilities

• Owning AI Gateway engineering: design and deliver intelligent model routing, multi-provider failover, semantic caching, and self-service onboarding on Kubernetes/Istio foundation.
• Delivering the Agent Development Lifecycle with zero-trust identity and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Hitting SLAs: 99.9% gateway uptime, ≤2,000ms P95 latency, and improvements in deployment times.
• Driving enterprise consolidation and cost control across BU AI integrations.
• Onboarding the business by landing 5+ BU teams on the platform within 6 months and establishing engineering cadence.
• Leading the team: recruiting and coaching 3–5 platform engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes production

Multi-cloud (GCP & AWS)

AI/ML infrastructure

DevOps / FinOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of work experience

Tools

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Istio

ArgoCD

Job description

Verizon is seeking a senior AI/ML platform engineer to own gateway engineering and developer platform initiatives. You will design intelligent routing, multi-provider failover, and secure onboarding on a Kubernetes/Istio stack.

You will lead a small team, drive cost optimization, and partner with BU teams to deploy at least five BU integrations within six months while maintaining strict SLAs and governance across GCP/AWS.