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11-16-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
This hands-on role builds and operates secure, scalable infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads across AWS and approved on-premises environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, containers, compute, identity, cost management, and observability.
The engineer partners with AI, architecture, cybersecurity, network, and application teams to deliver secure, cost-effective, production-ready infrastructure while supporting core cloud engineering services.
What you’ll do:
AI Cloud Foundations:
- Design, build and maintain the AWS account structure, landing zones, and reference patterns that host AI and machine learning workloads, leveraging AWS Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, and Terraform.
- Engineer the compute, storage, and networking foundations required for AI workloads, including GPU and accelerated instance families, high-throughput storage, and data access paths to enterprise data platforms.
- Enable and operate AI platform services such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, including private connectivity, model access provisioning, logging, and quota management.
- Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, templates and pipelines so that AI teams can deploy quickly within approved guardrails.
- Design, build and maintain on-premises AI infrastructure for edge and specialized use case.
- Support AI in disconnected or intermittently connected environments, including local compute, model distribution, patching, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
- Create deployment standards, automation, runbooks, and support processes for on-premises and edge AI.
- Integrate on-premises AI with enterprise identity, security, networking, monitoring, and governance where feasible.
Controls, Security & Governance:
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture and Compliance to align AI infrastructure with AEP security standards, regulatory obligations, and responsible AI guardrails.
- Review and remediate configuration drift, vulnerabilities and audit findings across the AI cloud estate; support evidence requests and control attestations.
- Contribute to onboarding and intake processes for new AI use cases, ensuring workloads are provisioned into the right accounts with the right controls from day one.
FinOps & Cost Management:
- Establish and operate FinOps practices for AI workloads, including tagging standards, showback/chargeback, budgets, anomaly detection, and forecasting.
- Analyze and optimize spend on GPU compute, inference and token consumption, storage, and data transfer; recommend commitment strategies such as Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
- Provide cost transparency and consumption reporting to business stakeholders and technology leadership, and identify optimization opportunities before they become budget issues.
Monitoring & Observability:
- Partner with monitoring team to create logging, alerting and dashboards for AI infrastructure and workloads.
- Define service-level objectives and operational thresholds for AI platforms, including model endpoint availability, latency, throughput, and error rates.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis and problem management for AI-related infrastructure events; drive preventive actions and automation to reduce recurrence.
Core Cloud Engineering & Platform Services:
- Perform standard cloud engineering functions across the AEP AWS environment including account provisioning, environment builds, platform upgrades, patching, automation and lifecycle management.
- Design, deploy and operate Kubernetes environments (Amazon EKS, ROSA/OpenShift) including cluster architecture, autoscaling, node group and GPU scheduling, ingress, service mesh, RBAC, and cluster security hardening.
- Engineer and support platform services including load balancing, traffic management, API gateways, and integration patterns across cloud, on-premises, edge, and disconnected environments.
- Apply networking fundamentals, VPC design, subnetting, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, firewalls, TLS and certificate management to deliver secure, performant connectivity for AI and general workloads.
- Prepare cost estimates, justifications, alternative solutions and technical recommendations; produce technical documentation, runbooks and standards.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Architects, Solution Engineers, Business Analysts and vendor partners to deliver consistent, reliable solutions that leverage AEP's technology standards, architectures and best practices.
- Adhere to and advocate for change, incident and problem management processes; participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as required.
- Provide training, mentoring and technical work direction to other engineers on the team.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrated hands-on engineering experience in AWS, including IAM, VPC networking, compute, storage, encryption/KMS, and account/organization structure.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise including cluster design, operations, troubleshooting and security in EKS, ROSA or OpenShift.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including routing, DNS, load balancing, traffic management, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, and network design for disconnected or intermittently connected environments.
- Experience with API gateways, integration patterns, and exposing and securing services across environments.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform required; Ansible, Python or PowerShell preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and compliance requirements.
- Experience implementing monitoring and cost management for cloud environments, with the ability to establish local monitoring, logging, patching, backup, and recovery processes for on-premises and disconnected environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently on complex assignments.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical recommendations clearly to management and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Architecture experience including designing end-to-end cloud solutions and influencing platform direction is highly desirable.
- Direct experience building or operating AI/ML or GenAI workloads across cloud or on-premises infrastructure (Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation patterns, GPU-based training or inference, edge AI, or disconnected environments).
- Experience with FinOps tooling and practices for high-variability workloads.
- Experience in a regulated industry (utility, energy, financial services) or with FedRAMP/GovCloud environments.
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (Azure, OCI, GCP) and enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake.
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional; AWS Certified Machine Learning; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
Other Requirements:
- Adhere to policies, procedures, standards, codes and regulations relevant to assignments.
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of AEP infrastructure, environment and components to enable efficient, comprehensive responses to projects and problems.
- Participate in on-call rotation, after-hours maintenance windows, and storm/emergency response support as required.
What We're Looking For:
Education requirements are listed below:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
Work Experience requirement listed below:
- 12 years of relevant work experience required.
- An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
What You’ll Get:
In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do!
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
SP20-010
Compensation Range:
$136,539.00 - $177,503.00
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Candidates will be considered based on their qualifications and the candidate’s ability to work from an approved work location. Although the location is flexible, AEP does not have a presence in all states and localities. The following locations are NOT currently approved for this position: AK, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, KS, MA, ME, MS, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, SD, UT, VT, WY, US Territories or international work locations. AEP will consider qualified candidates who are willing to relocate to an approved work location, at the candidate’s expense, provided the relocation can be completed within a timeframe that meets AEP’s staffing needs. NOTE: All remote work locations require vetting and final approval prior to offer and/or start date. Any work locations listed as preferred or unapproved relate specifically to the requirements for this position and are not necessarily applicable to other posted positions.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
Job Posting End Date
11-16-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
This hands-on role builds and operates secure, scalable infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads across AWS and approved on-premises environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, containers, compute, identity, cost management, and observability.
The engineer partners with AI, architecture, cybersecurity, network, and application teams to deliver secure, cost-effective, production-ready infrastructure while supporting core cloud engineering services.
What you’ll do:
AI Cloud Foundations:
- Design, build and maintain the AWS account structure, landing zones, and reference patterns that host AI and machine learning workloads, leveraging AWS Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, and Terraform.
- Engineer the compute, storage, and networking foundations required for AI workloads, including GPU and accelerated instance families, high-throughput storage, and data access paths to enterprise data platforms.
- Enable and operate AI platform services such as Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, including private connectivity, model access provisioning, logging, and quota management.
- Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, templates and pipelines so that AI teams can deploy quickly within approved guardrails.
- Design, build and maintain on-premises AI infrastructure for edge and specialized use case.
- Support AI in disconnected or intermittently connected environments, including local compute, model distribution, patching, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
- Create deployment standards, automation, runbooks, and support processes for on-premises and edge AI.
- Integrate on-premises AI with enterprise identity, security, networking, monitoring, and governance where feasible.
Controls, Security & Governance:
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture and Compliance to align AI infrastructure with AEP security standards, regulatory obligations, and responsible AI guardrails.
- Review and remediate configuration drift, vulnerabilities and audit findings across the AI cloud estate; support evidence requests and control attestations.
- Contribute to onboarding and intake processes for new AI use cases, ensuring workloads are provisioned into the right accounts with the right controls from day one.
FinOps & Cost Management:
- Establish and operate FinOps practices for AI workloads, including tagging standards, showback/chargeback, budgets, anomaly detection, and forecasting.
- Analyze and optimize spend on GPU compute, inference and token consumption, storage, and data transfer; recommend commitment strategies such as Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
- Provide cost transparency and consumption reporting to business stakeholders and technology leadership, and identify optimization opportunities before they become budget issues.
Monitoring & Observability:
- Partner with monitoring team to create logging, alerting and dashboards for AI infrastructure and workloads.
- Define service-level objectives and operational thresholds for AI platforms, including model endpoint availability, latency, throughput, and error rates.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis and problem management for AI-related infrastructure events; drive preventive actions and automation to reduce recurrence.
Core Cloud Engineering & Platform Services:
- Perform standard cloud engineering functions across the AEP AWS environment including account provisioning, environment builds, platform upgrades, patching, automation and lifecycle management.
- Design, deploy and operate Kubernetes environments (Amazon EKS, ROSA/OpenShift) including cluster architecture, autoscaling, node group and GPU scheduling, ingress, service mesh, RBAC, and cluster security hardening.
- Engineer and support platform services including load balancing, traffic management, API gateways, and integration patterns across cloud, on-premises, edge, and disconnected environments.
- Apply networking fundamentals, VPC design, subnetting, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, firewalls, TLS and certificate management to deliver secure, performant connectivity for AI and general workloads.
- Prepare cost estimates, justifications, alternative solutions and technical recommendations; produce technical documentation, runbooks and standards.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Architects, Solution Engineers, Business Analysts and vendor partners to deliver consistent, reliable solutions that leverage AEP's technology standards, architectures and best practices.
- Adhere to and advocate for change, incident and problem management processes; participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as required.
- Provide training, mentoring and technical work direction to other engineers on the team.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrated hands-on engineering experience in AWS, including IAM, VPC networking, compute, storage, encryption/KMS, and account/organization structure.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise including cluster design, operations, troubleshooting and security in EKS, ROSA or OpenShift.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including routing, DNS, load balancing, traffic management, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, and network design for disconnected or intermittently connected environments.
- Experience with API gateways, integration patterns, and exposing and securing services across environments.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform required; Ansible, Python or PowerShell preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and compliance requirements.
- Experience implementing monitoring and cost management for cloud environments, with the ability to establish local monitoring, logging, patching, backup, and recovery processes for on-premises and disconnected environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently on complex assignments.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical recommendations clearly to management and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Architecture experience including designing end-to-end cloud solutions and influencing platform direction is highly desirable.
- Direct experience building or operating AI/ML or GenAI workloads across cloud or on-premises infrastructure (Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation patterns, GPU-based training or inference, edge AI, or disconnected environments).
- Experience with FinOps tooling and practices for high-variability workloads.
- Experience in a regulated industry (utility, energy, financial services) or with FedRAMP/GovCloud environments.
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (Azure, OCI, GCP) and enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake.
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional; AWS Certified Machine Learning; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
Other Requirements:
- Adhere to policies, procedures, standards, codes and regulations relevant to assignments.
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of AEP infrastructure, environment and components to enable efficient, comprehensive responses to projects and problems.
- Participate in on-call rotation, after-hours maintenance windows, and storm/emergency response support as required.
What We're Looking For:
Education requirements are listed below:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
Work Experience requirement listed below:
- 12 years of relevant work experience required.
- An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
What You’ll Get:
In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do!
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
SP20-010
Compensation Range:
$136,539.00 - $177,503.00
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Candidates will be considered based on their qualifications and the candidate’s ability to work from an approved work location. Although the location is flexible, AEP does not have a presence in all states and localities. The following locations are NOT currently approved for this position: AK, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, KS, MA, ME, MS, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, SD, UT, VT, WY, US Territories or international work locations. AEP will consider qualified candidates who are willing to relocate to an approved work location, at the candidate’s expense, provided the relocation can be completed within a timeframe that meets AEP’s staffing needs. NOTE: All remote work locations require vetting and final approval prior to offer and/or start date. Any work locations listed as preferred or unapproved relate specifically to the requirements for this position and are not necessarily applicable to other posted positions.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
Lead Infrastructure Engineer Job Roles in Ohio
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Search Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in OhioLead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Ohio: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies in Ohio sponsor visas for lead infrastructure engineers?
Ohio-based employers with consistent visa sponsorship histories for senior infrastructure roles include Nationwide Insurance, Progressive, Huntington Bancshares, Cardinal Health, and Expeditors. Technology-focused firms in the Columbus and Cincinnati metro areas also sponsor regularly. Large employers in finance, healthcare logistics, and insurance tend to maintain dedicated immigration support teams, making them reliable sponsors for lead-level infrastructure positions.
Which visa types realistically apply to lead infrastructure engineer roles in Ohio?
The H-1B visa is the most common path, since lead infrastructure engineering qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring a directly related bachelor's degree. The employer files a Labor Condition Application and I-129 petition. Canadian and Mexican citizens may qualify for TN visa status under the USMCA Engineer category. H-1B1 visa applies to Chilean and Singaporean nationals. EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based green cards are also viable for long-term sponsorship.
Which cities in Ohio have the most lead infrastructure engineer sponsorship jobs?
Columbus leads Ohio for lead infrastructure engineer sponsorship activity, driven by its concentration of insurance carriers, financial institutions, and cloud-focused tech employers. Cincinnati follows, particularly in healthcare and logistics infrastructure. Cleveland offers openings tied to its manufacturing, banking, and healthcare systems. Smaller markets like Dayton and Akron see occasional sponsorship from defense contractors and regional healthcare networks.
How to find lead infrastructure engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Ohio?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find lead infrastructure engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Ohio. The platform lists Ohio employers with verified sponsorship filing history for infrastructure roles, so you can focus on companies already experienced with the process. Filtering by Ohio and role type surfaces relevant openings in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland without sorting through employers who do not sponsor.
Are there any Ohio-specific factors that affect visa sponsorship for lead infrastructure engineers?
Ohio's strong presence of regulated industries, particularly finance and healthcare, means many lead infrastructure employers operate under compliance-heavy IT governance, which can make the specialty occupation case clearer for H-1B purposes. Ohio universities like Ohio State and Case Western Reserve also feed engineering pipelines, so employers in university-adjacent cities are often familiar with sponsoring international candidates transitioning from F-1 OPT or STEM OPT.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored lead infrastructure engineer jobs in Ohio?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.