Infrastructure Director - IaC, Azure DevOps

A global company is looking for a Infrastructure Director. This director will be hands on technically and lead a team of 7-10 individuals focusing on IaC, Azure DevOps, Containerization, Terraform, etc.

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required; Master s degree or Master of Business Administration (MBA) strongly preferred. Advanced Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert) strongly preferred.
• 12+ years in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering within complex enterprises, including at least 5 years in senior leadership roles managing managers and multi team organizations.
• Must be able to manager a team of 7-10 people while also being technically hands on.
• Heavily focused on IaC, Azure DevOps, Containerization (Kubernetes), Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• 5+ years designing, operating, and scaling production AI and ML platforms, including MLOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code, and containerized platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Deep expertise with enterprise scale Microsoft Azure, including AI and ML services, networking, identity, security, governance, and cost management.
• Experience integrating and operating on premise GPU and high performance computing environments with cloud platforms.
• Proven ownership of platform reliability, incident command, and service level objectives in regulated, compliance sensitive environments.
• Working knowledge of Responsible AI, AI risk management, regulatory frameworks, and compliance standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Experience managing cloud spend using Financial Operations (FinOps) practices and overseeing enterprise vendor and contract relationships.