CareerPlan

Senior Director, Infrastructure -Infrastructure and Reliability

Staines-upon-Thames, England, gbFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Strategic leadership role accountable for designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure that powers the platform, products, and services, transforming operations into a proactive, automated, self-service platform.

Role type

Senior Director, Infrastructure and Reliability

Builds

Cloud platform, infrastructure architecture, deployment pipelines, observability infrastructure, disaster recovery systems, and agentic AI compute infrastructure.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Reliability Engineering, AI/ML Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud architecture strategy, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), multi-cloud management, automation and self-service platform design, reliability engineering (SLOs/SLIs), security and compliance, cost optimization, team leadership, incident response.

Preferred skills

Agentic AI workload infrastructure, GPU/ML compute optimization, vendor relationship management.

Technologies

Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Observability platforms, Container security tools.

Responsibilities

Define organization-wide cloud strategy and roadmap; lead adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and automation; ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements; optimize cloud costs and resource efficiency; build and lead the infrastructure team; partner with engineering and security teams to enable rapid innovation.

Seniority

Senior, strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise