Senior Deployment Strategist - Cloud & AI
Core
Senior Deployment Strategist who leads cloud and AI optimization deployments from discovery through production, partnering with CTOs and engineering teams to solve technical constraints and deliver measurable business impact.
Role type
Senior IC deployment strategist (cloud & AI)
Builds
Multi-phase cloud and AI optimization roadmaps and production deployments for enterprise clients
Domain
Cloud infrastructure and AI/ML operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Cloud infrastructure architecture, AI infrastructure depth, GPU/accelerator management, inference optimization, LLM/agentic system design, external consulting deployment, technical problem-solving, enterprise-scale architecture, infrastructure economics
Preferred skills
Kubernetes operational expertise, FinOps practice, startup founding experience
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI
Responsibilities
Partner with executive sponsors to define deployment scope and business cases; lead technical discovery and architecture reviews; establish credibility with customer engineering teams; sequence multi-phase deployment roadmaps; work alongside customer engineers on infrastructure and AI optimization; navigate client workflows and compliance gates; define adoption metrics and executive narratives; design POCs and graduation paths to production; turn field learnings into reusable playbooks.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
