Senior AI Platform Engineer (Data and Analytics Cloud Engineer)

Cooper Lighting Solutions; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Job summary

Cooper Lighting Solutions is seeking a Senior Engineer/Platform Leader in Atlanta, GA to design and operate secure AI/ML platforms. You will ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards while optimizing performance and reliability in the cloud environment.

The ideal candidate has an undergraduate degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience, with preferred qualifications including a master's degree and extensive cloud platform expertise. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in data engineering or software delivery.
• Experience in financial services or payments industry.
• Experience with cloud operations in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute AI/ML platform strategy aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Manage AI/ML platform components lifecycle.
• Champion DevSecOps practices for platform delivery.

Skills

Expert problem-solving skills

Team leadership

Data strategy execution

Cloud platform experience

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Education

Undergraduate degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab

Job description

Senior Engineer/Platform Leader – AI/ML and Generative AI Platforms

Job Type: Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Accountable for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable AI/ML and Generative AI (GenAI) platforms in the cloud. This role develops and maintains reusable platform capabilities so teams can deliver business outcomes faster while meeting technology standards, security requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and execute the AI/ML and GenAI platform strategy aligned to enterprise architecture, security, and risk standards.
• Own the engineering and lifecycle management of AI/ML platform components such as development workspaces, training/inference patterns, model registry, feature storage patterns, experiment tracking, prompt/version management, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enablement, and reusable templates for safe and deliberate consumption across the organization.
• Establish and champion DevSecOps practices for platform delivery, including GitLab source control, build automation, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Deploy infrastructure as code (IaC) to the cloud using Terraform modules and pipelines; define standards for environments, networking, identity, secrets, encryption, logging, and configuration management.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, and other 2nd line of defense teams to implement and evidence required security controls (e.g., IAM least privilege, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management, audit logging, and policy-as-code) across platform services.
• Implement governance patterns for AI/ML and GenAI (e.g., model and prompt lifecycle controls, lineage/traceability, approvals, change management, risk assessments, and operational readiness) consistent with enterprise data governance and regulatory obligations.
• Provide technical leadership and hands‑on engineering to solve complex platform problems (performance, reliability, scalability, cost, and security) and guide engineers through designs, reviews, and delivery.
• Build platform reliability through automation and observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, SLOs), and partner with production support teams to increase resiliency, reduce toil, and improve time to recover.
• Enable self‑service platform consumption via standardized APIs, reusable pipelines, templates, and documentation; in an Agile environment, may serve as an Agile/DevSecOps champion to accelerate delivery while maintaining compliance.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, analytics, data engineering, finance or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of experience driving enterprise data strategy, data execution, data engineering or software delivery.
• Expert problem‑solving skills and ability to define detailed strategies.
• Experience in financial services or payments industry.
• Experience in meeting regulatory obligations and operating in a highly regulatory environment on the cloud.
• Experience building a high performing team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and/or 8+ years of progressive experience delivering complex cloud platforms, preferably supporting AI/ML or analytics workloads at enterprise scale.
• Experience building AI/ML platforms and/or MLOps capabilities such as training/inference automation, model packaging and deployment, model registry, experiment tracking, and operational monitoring.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS), API enablement, and modern ML tooling (e.g., Python ML ecosystem).
• Deep expertise in AWS (compute, networking, security/IAM, logging/monitoring, managed services) and moderate experience with Azure services and deployment patterns.
• Hands‑on DevOps/DevSecOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), including automated testing, security scanning, artifact management, and controlled deployments across environments.
• Strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience deploying cloud components using Terraform; ability to build reusable modules and enforce standards/guardrails.
• Relevant cloud and security certifications (preferred) such as AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Administrator/Architect, and/or Terraform certification; strong mentoring/coaching skills for distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits. Eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division offering the position. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax‑preferred savings accounts, and a 401(k) plan. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated) and 10 sick days during their first year of employment, along with paid holidays. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for a defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. You will learn more about the specific benefits available for any non‑temporary position as you advance through the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.