[Hiring] Director of Infrastructure Engineering @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced Director of Infrastructure Engineering with deep expertise in AWS, GCP, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, platform engineering, reliability, security, and technical leadership to build and scale the infrastructure supporting production AI systems. The role combines hands-on infrastructure engineering with strategic leadership across cloud architecture, developer platforms, observability, reliability, security, and engineering operations. The successful candidate will own both long-term infrastructure strategy and day-to-day execution, including production resilience, incident response, automation, and team development.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Strategy
  • Own the architecture and evolution of multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP
  • Define long-term infrastructure strategy aligned with scalability, reliability, security, and cost objectives
  • Evaluate architecture trade-offs across cloud platforms and deployment models
  • Ensure infrastructure can support growing production workloads
  • Maintain strong operational standards as systems and teams scale
• Infrastructure as Code & Platform Engineering
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform or comparable tooling
  • Ensure environments are reproducible, auditable, and version controlled
  • Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and platform abstractions
  • Reduce operational friction through automation and internal tooling
  • Improve developer productivity across engineering teams
• CI/CD & Software Delivery
  • Design and improve CI/CD systems
  • Enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery
  • Standardise deployment practices across engineering teams
  • Improve release safety through automation and validation
  • Reduce deployment risk while supporting rapid iteration
• Reliability & Production Operations
  • Define and drive reliability practices across production systems
  • Establish SLOs, error budgets, incident-response processes, and on-call operations
  • Lead disaster-recovery planning and resilience initiatives
  • Improve operational maturity through blameless postmortems
  • Ensure infrastructure remains highly available and recoverable
• Observability & Incident Management
  • Build comprehensive observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
  • Improve detection of production issues before they affect users
  • Define meaningful operational signals and alert thresholds
  • Support structured troubleshooting and incident response
  • Use production data to guide reliability improvements
• Security & Compliance
  • Partner with Security and Engineering leadership to embed security by default
  • Strengthen infrastructure controls and operational risk management
  • Support compliance with frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC
  • Evaluate security risks across cloud architecture and platform tooling
  • Maintain secure infrastructure practices throughout the software lifecycle
• Team Leadership & Engineering Culture
  • Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure or Platform Engineering team
  • Establish a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
  • Mentor experienced engineers and support technical development
  • Influence infrastructure strategy across engineering and executive stakeholders
  • Balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical involvement

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE systems
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Deep expertise with AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud production environments
• Strong experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised infrastructure
• Experience building and operating modern CI/CD platforms
• Demonstrated success designing highly available, observable, and resilient systems
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, compliance, and operational risk
• Experience scaling infrastructure and engineering organisations in fast-moving environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence technical strategy across engineering and executive stakeholders
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or large-scale data platforms is highly valuable
• Familiarity with model training, inference, evaluation, or data-pipeline infrastructure is advantageous
• Experience with regulated cloud environments such as FedRAMP, GovCloud, or CMMC Level 2 is beneficial
• Contributions to platform engineering, open-source infrastructure, or developer-productivity initiatives are a plus

Engagement Details

• Full-time engagement
• Fully remote
• Base compensation: $350,000–$500,000/year
• Work will involve AWS, GCP, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering, platform tooling, security, and technical leadership
• Strong hands-on infrastructure expertise and leadership experience are central to this role
• Responsibilities will span strategic architecture, production operations, developer experience, team leadership, and incident management
• The role may support AI/ML infrastructure, large-scale data platforms, or regulated cloud environments
• Infrastructure priorities, compliance requirements, and platform architecture may evolve as production systems scale