Director, Corporate Infrastructure (AI)

Location: New York, San Francisco, or Seattle, United States

Base salary: $160,000–$270,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission.

Company

Nscale provides high-performance, cost-effective GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Define and deliver the global corporate infrastructure strategy, architecture, standards, roadmap, and operating model.
• Own corporate WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, guest networks, internet connectivity, SD-WAN, private connectivity, routing, and resilience.
• Set standards for internal cloud infrastructure, landing zones, access, resilience, cost governance, monitoring, observability, and configuration management.
• Govern secure remote access, VPN, zero-trust network access, network authentication, segmentation, firewalls, logging, and administrative access.
• Provide infrastructure standards and technical oversight for offices, data-centre corporate spaces, openings, moves, expansions, and fit-outs.
• Build and lead the corporate infrastructure capability, manage suppliers and service providers, and communicate investment plans, risks, and priorities to senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, corporate networks, or infrastructure platform strategy and operations.
• Strong expertise in WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, routing, switching, firewalls, remote access, and internet connectivity.
• Experience designing secure and resilient infrastructure across multiple countries and locations, including SD-WAN, segmentation, zero-trust access, infrastructure security, and operational resilience.
• Understanding of data-centre networks, production network boundaries, and operational technology networks.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, configuration management, and infrastructure tooling.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a rapidly scaling international technology, cloud, infrastructure, or AI organisation.
• Experience with corporate infrastructure in large data-centre environments or infrastructure integration following acquisitions.
• Familiarity with SASE, identity-based access, cloud connectivity, or zero-trust network access.
• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience establishing a global infrastructure capability, operating model, and technical standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative work environment focused on ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the working day.
• Performance reviews every 12 months and a progression plan tailored to individual ambitions.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation may be available.
• Opportunity to lead cross-functional initiatives and shape infrastructure investment and global AI capacity planning.