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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. 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Join IFS.\n We are hiring a Senior Director of Infrastructure for our Product and Technology organization - a strategic leadership role accountable for designing, building and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers our platform, products and services. You will define infrastructure strategy and architecture, lead the transformation toward Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native operations, ensure reliability and security at scale, optimize costs, and build a team of infrastructure engineers who deliver operational excellence. You will partner closely with engineering teams, security, observability, performance engineering, and the product organization to ensure infrastructure enables rapid innovation while maintaining security, reliability and cost efficiency.\nRole overview\nAs Senior Director of Infrastructure, you own the cloud platform, infrastructure architecture and operations that enable the entire company to build, ship and run software reliably and securely. You are accountable for infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment infrastructure, infrastructure security, observability infrastructure, disaster recovery, capacity planning and cost management across all production systems, development environments and support infrastructure.\nThis is a strategic leadership role that combines deep technical expertise with broad organizational influence. You will establish infrastructure standards, drive adoption of cloud-native practices and Infrastructure-as-Code, build automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams, ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements, and drive cost optimization across cloud platforms. You work closely with engineering teams, security operations, observability, performance engineering, product leadership and cloud operations to ensure infrastructure is the reliable foundation upon which innovation happens.\nYour mandate is to transform infrastructure from a reactive, ticket-driven operation into a proactive, automated, self-service platform that enables engineering teams to deploy and operate systems independently while maintaining security, reliability and cost efficiency. Infrastructure is not separate from product development - it is a critical enabler. You will lead this transformation while building a high-performing team and delivering measurable improvements in deployment velocity, system reliability, security posture and cost efficiency.\nDuties and accountabilities\nCloud platform and architecture strategy \nDefine organization-wide cloud strategy, platform architecture and infrastructure vision aligned with product strategy, scalability requirements and business goals.\nOwn multi-cloud strategy (if applicable): determine which workloads run on which platforms, manage vendor relationships, optimize for cost and capability.\nEstablish infrastructure standards, reference architectures and guardrails that make secure, scalable choices the easy choices for engineering teams.\nDefine infrastructure roadmap: prioritize platform improvements, deprecate legacy systems, and communicate progress to leadership and stakeholders.\nEnsure infrastructure requirements are embedded in architecture reviews and design documents; make infrastructure-as-code mandatory for all services.\nInfrastructure-as-Code and automation \nLead adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices across the organization; ensure all infrastructure is declarative, version-controlled and reproducible.\nOwn configuration management, infrastructure tooling and deployment pipelines; select and implement IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) aligned with platform strategy.\nBuild self-service infrastructure capabilities: enable engineers to provision, configure and deploy infrastructure without infrastructure team bottleneck.\nAutomated disaster recovery, backup and recovery procedures; ensure infrastructure is resilient and recoverable.\nContinuously improve automation and reduce manual operations; measure and reduce operational toil.\nReliability, scalability and operations \nEnsure infrastructure meets reliability, availability and scalability requirements; design systems that scale with customer demand.\nPartner with observability team to instrument infrastructure for visibility; ensure all cloud resources, networks, databases and services are monitored.\nEstablish infrastructure SLOs and SLIs; maintain high availability and performance of platform services and shared infrastructure.\nCapacity planning and forecasting; ensure infrastructure grows with demand, identify bottlenecks before they impact customers.\nLead incident response for infrastructure incidents; ensure rapid detection, diagnosis and remediation of infrastructure issues.\nSecurity and compliance infrastructure \nEnsure infrastructure architecture meets security and compliance requirements (network segmentation, encryption, access control, audit logging).\nPartner with security operations to implement infrastructure security controls: IAM policies, network security, secrets management, container security.\nMaintain compliance infrastructure for regulatory requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.); support audit and certification efforts.\nImplement infrastructure for security operations: logging, monitoring, alerting, forensic investigation capabilities.\nManage cloud security posture; monitor and remediate security risks in cloud infrastructure (misconfigurations, exposed credentials, unauthorized access).\nCost optimization and efficiency \nOptimize cloud costs: analyze cloud spend, identify waste, negotiate vendor commitments, implement cost optimization strategies.\nPartner with performance engineering on resource optimization; ensure infrastructure is efficient and no resources are wasted.\nImplement cost allocation and chargeback mechanisms; make infrastructure costs visible to engineering teams and business units.\nDrive infrastructure efficiency initiatives: rightsizing instances, optimizing database costs, managing data transfer costs, leveraging spot instances and reserved capacity.\nBalance cost, performance and reliability; make informed trade-offs between different cloud options and resource configurations.\nAgentic AI infrastructure and emerging compute \nOwn infrastructure strategy for agentic AI workloads: GPU/ML compute infrastructure, inference serving, model storage and distribution.\nPartner with AI/ML teams to design infrastructure for agent development, testing and deployment; manage inference serving infrastructure.\nOptimize AI infrastructure costs: GPU utilization, batch processing, inference optimization, cost-per-inference efficiency.\nEnsure AI infrastructure is observable and performant; integrate with observability platform for AI workload monitoring.\nInfrastructure culture and team leadership \nBuild and lead the infrastructure team, including cloud architects, DevOps engineers, database specialists, and infrastructure automation engineers.\nDrive a culture of reliability, automation and operational excellence; make infrastructure work invisible and frictionless for engineering teams.\nMentor engineers and engineering leaders on infrastructure thinking; embed infrastructure expertise into product teams.\nCommunicate infrastructure strategy, wins and progress to engineering leadership, product leadership and executive stakeholders.\nWhat success looks like\nEngineering teams can self-serve infrastructure: provision, configure and deploy systems without infrastructure team bottleneck or manual intervention.\nAll infrastructure is Infrastructure-as-Code, version-controlled and reproducible; no manual infrastructure configuration.\nDeployment velocity improves; infrastructure is not a bottleneck to shipping features, and deployment frequency increases measurably.\nSystem reliability improves; mean time to incident and mean time to recovery decrease, and uptime SLOs are consistently met.\nCloud costs are optimized and predictable; infrastructure spend per customer or per feature decreases over time without sacrificing reliability or performance.\nInfrastructure is secure and compliant; compliance audits and certifications proceed smoothly, and security posture is strong.\nAI infrastructure scales efficiently; agents deploy rapidly, inference latency meets targets, and cost per inference is optimized.\nEngineering teams view infrastructure team as trusted partners and enablers, not as a bottleneck or overhead.\nRequired skills and experience\nProven software engineering or infrastructure experience with 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering.\nDeep hands-on expertise designing and operating cloud platforms; extensive experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).\nProven track record leading infrastructure transformation initiatives at scale; 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