Director of Infrastructure Engineering (AI)

TL;DR

Director of Infrastructure Engineering (AI): Leading and growing a team responsible for designing, delivering, and operating GPU cloud infrastructure platforms with an accent on reliability, availability, security, and delivery velocity. Focus on driving automation, ensuring compliance, and aligning platform capabilities with business and customer needs for AI-focused companies.

Location: Global Remote

Company

hirify.global is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team responsible for the design, delivery, and operation of infrastructure platforms, ensuring close accountability and results.
• Own outcomes for platform reliability, availability, security, and delivery velocity.
• Build and manage team plans and execution roadmaps, including delivery prioritisation and resourcing.
• Provide decision-making guidance and governance, including technical postmortems, runbooks, and change management.
• Partner with stakeholders (engineering, security, product, support, pre-sales) to align platform capabilities with business and customer needs.
• Drive performance management, coaching, career development, and hiring for the team.

Requirements

• Experience managing infrastructure/platform engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, delivery, and stakeholder management.
• Deep technical knowledge in infrastructure and production operations to guide decisions and unblock the team.
• Familiarity with OpenStack/Proxmox/Ceph environments and the operational realities of running them at scale.
• Proven experience driving automation and standardisation using Ansible/IaC approaches.
• Comfortable owning operational outcomes (incident management, reliability improvement) and team resourcing.
• Strong communication skills translating technical topics for non-technical stakeholders and aligning multiple teams.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with OpenStack components (Ironic/Neutron/OVN/OVS) and storage/network architecture at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where contributions spark real impact.
• Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months.
• Opportunity to join a fast-growing tech startup at the cutting-edge of AI.
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to individual ambitions.
• Human-First Flexibility, providing autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
• Remote-first team with seamless virtual collaboration, empowering work from anywhere.