Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA preferred, or remote within the USA. Some travel is required. Certain national security assignments may require U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Salary: $240,000–$290,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an incubation firm building and investing in technology-led companies across healthcare, cybersecurity, and national security; this role supports Trase Systems, an AI platform for deploying, managing, and optimizing enterprise AI and agentic applications.

What you will do

• Build and develop the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development, and performance management.
• Lead DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps, testing, application delivery, and dedicated support functions across multiple technical disciplines.
• Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, delivery reviews, dependencies, scope, incidents, and customer support commitments.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through design and code reviews, technical investigations, pairing, and guidance on application, deployment, and operational concerns.
• Establish production and release readiness practices covering reliability, change management, QA, end-to-end validation, documentation, and rollback plans.
• Improve cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, on-call readiness, incident response, support metrics, and cross-functional delivery with Product, Platform, Applied AI, and Security/GRC.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering people management, or equivalent demonstrated experience. Experience building teams, coaching platform or infrastructure engineers, managing performance, and delivering through technical leads is required.
• Experience leading teams with different technical specialties and seniority levels, with strong planning, prioritization, delegation, stakeholder communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong technical foundation in at least one major cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, with practical experience in Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, and production operations.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Git-based development workflows, GitOps, CI/CD, repeatable environments, configuration control, and reliable deployments.
• Strong software engineering background across backend services, APIs, data stores, full-stack integration, production software delivery, code and design reviews, failure analysis, and pairing with engineers.
• Experience leading production delivery and support, including reliability, incident response, release and change management, automated testing, and end-to-end readiness.
• Ability to structure ambiguous work, learn unfamiliar technical domains, make timely decisions with incomplete information, and shift between people leadership, delivery issues, and technical discussions.
• Experience managing technical commitments and escalations with internal or external customers and translating customer needs into feasible priorities and delivery plans.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MLOps, model serving, or operating AI/ML and agent workloads.
• Experience supporting customer-managed environments, multiple cloud providers, or enterprise deployments with complex integration needs.
• Experience in national security, federal, regulated, or other security-sensitive environments and partnering with Security/GRC.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization or building a new team or operating function in a fast-changing company.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a career track and potential for rapid advancement.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Fourteen weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities, with optional 401(k), FSA, and equity incentives.
• Mental health and GLP-1 support programs are available.