Senior Director, Infrastructure - Infrastructure and Reliability

Location: Staines-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom; hybrid work opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-enabled enterprise software solutions for customers worldwide and operates as a large international organization with more than 7,000 employees.

What you will do

• Define the organization-wide cloud strategy, platform architecture, infrastructure standards, roadmap, and reference architectures.
• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, deployment pipelines, automation, self-service infrastructure, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Own reliability, scalability, observability, SLOs, SLIs, capacity planning, incident response, and operations across production and development environments.
• Drive infrastructure security, compliance controls, cloud security posture, audit support, access control, encryption, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
• Optimize cloud costs through resource rightsizing, capacity planning, vendor commitments, cost allocation, chargeback, and database and data-transfer efficiency.
• Build and lead the infrastructure team, support agentic AI infrastructure and GPU/inference workloads, and partner with engineering, security, observability, performance, product, and executive teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, with proven software engineering or infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud platforms across major providers including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Proven experience leading infrastructure transformation initiatives with measurable impact on deployment velocity, reliability, or cost efficiency.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience designing and operating container platforms and Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience designing and operating scalable database and data infrastructure, including relational, NoSQL, caching, and data pipeline systems.
• Experience with infrastructure security, including network security, IAM and access control, encryption, secrets management, and compliance infrastructure.
• Strong observability and monitoring infrastructure expertise, including integration with observability platforms.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization, cloud pricing models, capacity planning, and cost analysis.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills, including the ability to explain architecture and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences and build a high-performing infrastructure team.
• Ability to lead infrastructure strategy, architecture, operations, standards, and investments across the company, including a team of 6–8+ people.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-scale SaaS, cloud platform, or enterprise software company.
• Experience reducing infrastructure spend by 20% or more while maintaining or improving reliability.
• Experience with multi-region, multi-cloud, geographic distribution, disaster recovery, regional failover, or large-scale infrastructure migrations.
• Experience designing infrastructure for regulated industries and familiarity with FedRAMP, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU compute optimization, or inference serving platforms.
• Experience in fast-growing organizations, published technical content, conference talks, open-source contributions, or infrastructure and DevOps thought leadership.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 7+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps leadership roles.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities and flexibility to support different needs and lifestyles.
• Inclusive, diverse, collaborative, and international work environment.
• Focus on sustainability, innovation, trust, and positive worldwide impact.
• Opportunity to work with AI-driven enterprise software and contribute to measurable improvements in reliability, security, deployment velocity, and cost efficiency.