Senior Analyst , AI Operations & Governance

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena builds the critical infrastructure powering the AI era. We’re a technology company shaping the future of networking, guided by innovation, integrity, and collaboration. Through development opportunities, meaningful work, and flexibility, Ciena supports growth and well-being—on and off the job. Connect with a career that matters. Ciena is seeking a hands-on Senior Analyst, AI Operations & Governance to support the administration, operational management, and governance of enterprise AI platforms and services.

The role will help operate Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, administer AI and LLM gateway capabilities, and establish consistent lifecycle controls for enterprise AI agents. The successful candidate will work across Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure, Data & Analytics, Legal, Privacy, and business teams to help ensure AI technologies are reliable, secure, cost-conscious, auditable, and responsibly adopted at enterprise scale.

• Microsoft Copilot Administration:
  Administer and support Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and related Microsoft 365 AI services, including licensing, role and access management, configuration, service health, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• AI Platform Operations:
  Monitor platform health, availability, adoption, and operational readiness; support onboarding, configuration management, release readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• LLM / AI Gateway Administration:
  Administer enterprise LLM and AI gateway services, including provider and model onboarding, authentication, access policies, routing, rate limits, quotas, usage controls, audit logging, and operational monitoring.
• Agent Governance & Agent Ops:
  Support the lifecycle governance of Copilot Studio and custom AI agents through registration, risk classification, approval, testing, deployment, monitoring, change control, recertification, and retirement.
• AI Security & Responsible AI Controls:
  Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Compliance teams to operationalize guardrails for data protection, prompt injection, content safety, tool access, human oversight, and auditability.
• Observability & Reporting:
  Create and maintain dashboards and operational reporting for availability, latency, errors, token consumption, model usage, agent activity, policy violations, adoption, and cost.
• AI Fin Ops:
  Support budgets, quotas, showback and chargeback reporting, cost anomaly identification, and model-selection guidance to improve the economics of enterprise AI services.
• Service Management:
  Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles, standard operating procedures, service catalogs, support queues, escalation paths, SLAs, and audit evidence; coordinate incidents and problem-management activities.
• Automation:
  Use Power Shell, APIs, workflow automation, and platform tooling to reduce manual administration and improve the consistency of AI operational controls.
• Stakeholder Enablement:
  Provide practical guidance to development and business teams on approved AI services, platform onboarding, agent publishing, and operational requirements.

• Hands-on administration experience with Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Microsoft Entra .
• Practical experience operating an LLM Gateway, AI Gateway, API Gateway, or model access control plane in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with agent governance, Agent Ops, or lifecycle controls for AI agents and autonomous workflows.
• Understanding of Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI, with familiarity across additional enterprise model providers or platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, or…