VP, Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description:

Asset Mark 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 Asset Mark's cloud and infrastructure platforms.

This role owns the technology foundation that enables the business, including Azure Cloud, Dev Ops 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 Asset Mark'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 s 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.

Primary Responsibilities Cloud and Infrastructure Strategy:
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.

Leadership and Team Development:
Lead and develop a high-performing organization of technical leaders, cloud engineers, Dev Ops engineers, database professionals, network engineers, architects, and platform specialists. Establish clear accountability, career paths, technical standards, operating procedures, and succession plans.

Azure Cloud Platform:
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.

Azure Networking and Platform Services:
Define standards for Azure Virtual Networks, private endpoints, Private Link, VPN, Express Route, 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.

Dev Ops and Platform Engineering:
Lead the evolution of Dev Ops 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.

Infrastructure as Code and Terraform:
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.

Database and Data Platform Engineering:
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.

Network and Connectivity Engineering:
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.

AI-Ready Infrastructure and Emerging Technology:
Define the infrastructure strategy…