VP, Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering

AssetMark Financial Holdings•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

AssetMark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors. We provide investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use in helping clients achieve wealth, independence, and purpose. Position Summary The Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering is the senior leader responsible for the strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, reliability, and continuous improvement of AssetMark's cloud and infrastructure platforms. This role owns the technology foundation that enables the business, including Azure Cloud, DevOps and platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, databases, data platforms, enterprise networking, office connectivity, wireless, firewalls, SD-WAN, load balancing, F5, and Azure networking services. The VP will also own the infrastructure foundation required to support AssetMark's AI strategy. This includes establishing the compute, data, networking, security, automation, governance, and operational capabilities needed to responsibly develop, deploy, and support AI-enabled solutions at scale. This is a senior technical leadership position requiring strong executive presence, broad infrastructure experience, and sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, guide complex decisions, lead through major incidents, establish an engineering roadmap, and create measurable organizational change. We can only consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.

Requirements

Typically 15 or more years of progressive experience across cloud, infrastructure, engineering, operations, or technology platforms, with significant experience leading enterprise technology functions.
Significant experience leading global technical teams, developing managers and engineers, building new capabilities, and directing delivery through a strategic roadmap.
Demonstrated ownership of enterprise Azure environments, cloud transformation initiatives, platform engineering, cloud governance, and production operations.
Deep experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code at enterprise scale, including modules, state management, CI/CD integration, testing, policy enforcement, drift detection, and operational governance.
Broad experience across DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, automation, developer enablement, observability, and production operations.
Strong technical understanding of enterprise networking, including firewalls, SD-WAN, wireless, WAN, load balancers, F5, DNS, VPN, and Azure networking.
Experience leading database and data platform operations involving SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or comparable technologies.
Experience enabling AI, machine learning, analytics, or advanced data workloads in Azure or another major cloud platform, with an understanding of the related compute, data, security, and operational requirements.
Strong understanding of cloud security, network security, identity integration, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and compliance controls.
Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to move between strategy, business impact, and technical detail.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US to be considered.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure landing zones, Kubernetes, AKS, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, containers, and cloud-native architecture.
Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitOps, policy-as-code, platform APIs, internal developer platforms, and automated production readiness.
Experience with Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Snowflake AI/ML capabilities, vector search, semantic search, MLOps, LLMOps, or comparable technologies.
Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption management, Snowflake cost optimization, vendor strategy, and infrastructure financial planning.
Experience within financial services or another highly regulated enterprise environment, including audit, regulatory examination, and remediation activities.
Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Network Engineer Associate, Terraform Associate, CISSP, CCSP, or comparable credentials.

Responsibilities

Define and execute a multi-year Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering strategy.
Establish target-state architecture, platform standards, service ownership, production-readiness expectations, and a prioritized roadmap that balances reliability, modernization, security, automation, cost, AI adoption, and business growth.
Lead and develop a high-performing organization of technical leaders, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, database professionals, network engineers, architects, and platform specialists.
Establish clear accountability, career paths, technical standards, operating procedures, and succession plans.
Own the design, operation, and continuous improvement of the Azure environment.
Establish standards for landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, resource organization, naming, tagging, policies, access controls, compute, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and resiliency.
Define standards for Azure Virtual Networks, private endpoints, Private Link, VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Front Door, DNS, and related services.
Ensure cloud platforms are secure, scalable, highly available, recoverable, and operationally supportable.
Lead the evolution of DevOps and platform engineering capabilities across technology teams.
Establish source-control, CI/CD, artifact-management, release-automation, environment-promotion, platform-API, and self-service standards that improve developer experience while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.
Make Infrastructure as Code the standard for provisioning and managing cloud and infrastructure services.
Lead the adoption and governance of Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, versioning, testing, code review, secrets management, drift detection, policy enforcement, and automated change promotion.
Own the operational strategy and engineering standards for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and related data platforms.
Establish standards for architecture, performance, capacity, high availability, backup, recovery, patching, upgrades, monitoring, security, and lifecycle management.
Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to support reliable data services.
Own the strategy and architecture for enterprise network services across offices, data centers, cloud environments, and remote users.
Lead wired and wireless networks, firewalls, SD-WAN, VPN, WAN connectivity, DNS, IP address management, load balancers, F5, and Azure network services.
Define the infrastructure strategy required to support enterprise AI adoption.
Establish secure and scalable patterns for AI workloads across Azure, Snowflake, and other approved platforms, including compute, storage, networking, data access, APIs, GPU-enabled workloads, monitoring, capacity, security, and cost management.
Evaluate emerging technologies and move practical capabilities from experimentation into production-ready services.
Embed security requirements into cloud, network, database, DevOps, AI, and infrastructure engineering practices.
Partner with Cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management on Zero Trust, privileged access, vulnerability management, network segmentation, secrets management, identity-based controls, data protection, and secure third-party connectivity.
Establish an operational model for cloud and infrastructure platforms that includes observability, capacity planning, incident and problem management, change governance, disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, recovery testing, and service-level objectives.
Partner with Service Resilience to improve end-to-end service health and reliability.
Use PowerShell, Python, APIs, Terraform, Bicep, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and workflow automation to reduce manual work, configuration inconsistency, operational risk, and infrastructure-related tickets.
Automate platform onboarding, environment management, compliance evidence, cost controls, and AI infrastructure patterns where practical.
Own infrastructure financial planning, forecasting, FinOps, consumption management, and cost optimization across Azure, Snowflake, AI workloads, networking, licensing, and vendors.
Manage strategic relationships, contracts, renewals, service performance, and commercial negotiations.
Partner with Service Resilience, Identity and Access Management, Cybersecurity, Applications, Data, Enterprise Architecture, Finance, Procurement, and business leaders to translate requirements into secure, scalable, resilient, automated, and adopted platform services.