VP, Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description: AssetMark 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 AssetMark's cloud and infrastructure platforms. This role owns the technology foundation that enables the business, including Azure Cloud, DevOps 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 AssetMark'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 at scale. This 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 Responsibilitie s 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, DevOps 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, ExpressRoute, 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…