Lead AI/MLOPs Infrastructure Engineer - Senior Vice President

Lead AI/MLOPs Infrastructure Engineer - Senior Vice President New York, New York, United States About the Role The Platform Infrastructure team at iCapital plays a critical role in ensuring that both production and development environments operate smoothly, securely, and reliably. This role leverages advanced cloud capabilities to support the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles, with a strong emphasis on quality to meet the ever‑growing demands of our clients. We are seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious MLOps/DevOps Engineers with deep expertise in machine learning operations, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, and security. This role requires hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating scalable DevOps and enterprise‑grade MLOps platforms, including model lifecycle automation, observability, and governance. As a Platform Engineer, you will wear multiple hats in a highly visible role, partnering closely with engineering, security, data, and business teams to deliver secure, reliable, and highly automated platforms that support both application and machine‑learning workloads. Responsibilities Design, build, and operate MLOps pipelines supporting the full ML lifecycle (training, validation, deployment, monitoring). Enable production workloads for AI/ML and Generative AI systems, including LLM‑based services. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML services and supporting infrastructure. Build and manage cloud‑native infrastructure on AWS, with heavy use of Kubernetes and containerized workloads. Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Implement model versioning, experiment tracking, and artifact management across environments. Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI platforms. Partner with AI/ML engineers to operationalize models and standardize deployment patterns. Implement monitoring and alerting for system health, model performance, and drift. Enforce security, compliance, and governance requirements for AI workloads. Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. Document standards, best practices, and reference architectures for MLOps and AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with AWS as a primary cloud. Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including deployment and monitoring concerns. Hands‑on experience with machine learning platforms, particularly AWS SageMaker (required). Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud networking. Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD). Strong proficiency with Terraform and scripting/programming in Python or similar languages. Solid Linux, systems, and troubleshooting fundamentals. Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams. Direct experience with MLOps platforms and tooling (model registries, experiment tracking, feature stores). Exposure to Generative AI / LLM workloads in production environments. Familiarity with data stores commonly used in ML systems (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, object storage). Experience operating in regulated or fintech environments. Background in cost optimization for compute‑intensive workloads. Strong written and verbal communication skills. AWS certifications are a plus. Benefits The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $230,000 depending on experience. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday. iCapital