Infrastructure Automation & AI - Vice President

Job Title

Vice President, Infrastructure Automation & AI

Role Summary & Role Description

Job Summary

Vice President, Platform Engineering Infrastructure Automation & AI. We are going to be creating a true Agentic Infrastructure. You will partner with the teams lead in AI – based in London, and be responsible for enabling agents to provision, govern, operate, observe in multi-layer frameworks and workflows in partnership with all teams. You will help to create and lead the strategy, delivery, governance, and operational excellence of an Agentic Infrastructure.

The role partners with global technology, architecture, security, risk to drive platform modernization, automation, resiliency, operational efficiency, and engineering productivity while ensuring compliance with enterprise risk and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the roadmap for Platform Engineering Infrastructure Automation & AI
• Drive enterprise-wide automation across Self-Service, Event Driven Automation and Agentic automation.
• Partner and help lead an AI first Strategy in all teams.

Functional Leadership

You will partner with the below functions -

• Compute Engineering (Windows, Unix/Linux, OpenShift, NC2)
• Infrastructure Automation
  • Terraform Enterprise (Multi-Cloud)
  • Ansible Automation Platform
  • Enterprise Configuration Management
  • Enterprise Image Bakery
  • ServiceNow Self-Service Automation
• Observability
• Private Cloud Services
• SecCM
• RPA
• DevX

Operational Excellence

• Ensure reliability, availability, performance, and resiliency of enterprise platforms.
• Drive continuous improvement through agentic automation and engineering best practices.
• Improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort through self-service capabilities and agentic workflows

Risk, Security & Compliance

• Maintain accountability for technology risk, operational risk, and cybersecurity controls.
• Ensure audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and timely remediation of control issues.
• Strengthen governance and security practices across all managed services.
• Partner with the AI group and AROW team for AI adoption

People Leadership

• Lead and develop managers, engineers, product owners, and platform teams in AI
• Be able to stand Infront of all layers of people and convey a strategy that can be understood
• Be a focal for technical presentations, demo’s, lunch and learns

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 20+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Enterprise Technology.
• Proven leadership and experience of creating and managing an Agentic Infrastructure
• Strong experience driving agentic automation, modernization, and operational transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated success leading globally distributed teams in complex enterprise environments.

Preferred Technical Expertise

• AI Adoption, Agent Design, Build and Run
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Automation
• Terraform Enterprise
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Cloud & Private Cloud Technologies
• Windows & Unix/Linux Engineering
• Configuration Management
• ServiceNow Automation
• Observability & Monitoring
• Developer Experience Platforms
• Technology Risk & Compliance

Core/Must have skills

Fluent in building AI applications, API and Library Market place, Architecture & Design

Terraform, Ansible, Compute, Cloud (AWS, Azure), Private Cloud

Developer Experience Tools & Automation – DevSecOps, CI/CD, Developer Tools Automation end to end, ServiceNow Automation

Risk & Resiliency

Excellent Communication, Leadership, Presentation, Influencing skills

Good to have skills

GCC Leadership

PDLC and SDLC

Work Schedule

Officer Working (4 days at office)

Schedule – 2 pm to 11 pm IST

Location – Hyderabad only (Relocation benefits included if outstation candidate)

Keywords (If any)

#Terraform #Ansilbe #Automation #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBuilding #DevOps #DevSecOps #FunctionalLeadership

Why this role is important to us

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

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