Remote | Director of Infrastructure Engineering — $350,000–$500,000/year

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

Ideal Profile

• 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

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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