Director of Infrastructure Engineering

RemoteJobsOne; Dubai; Remote; AED 845,000 - 955,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Remote-first workforce

Health insurance premium reimbursement

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

RemoteJobsOne is seeking a Director of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the multi-cloud platform that powers production AI systems. You will own strategy, architecture and reliability practices across AWS and GCP, while mentoring engineers and shaping a strong ownership culture.

You will define incident response, SLOs, disaster recovery, and cost-conscious design, partnering with Security and Engineering leaders to maintain compliance in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 8 years building and operating production infrastructure and platform engineering.
• 3 years leading engineering teams in high-growth settings.
• Deep expertise with AWS, GCP or multi-cloud environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, containers and modern CI/CD.
• Proven experience building highly available, observable and resilient systems.
• Security, compliance and risk management are well understood.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations in fast-moving startups.
• Excellent communication with executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and evolution of multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure/Platform team with strong culture.
• Build infrastructure as code with Terraform ensuring reproducible environments.
• Design and improve CI/CD systems for fast, secure software delivery.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, traces and alerting.
• Define reliability practices: incident response, SLOs, disaster recovery.
• Partner with Security and Engineering to ensure security by default and compliance.
• Improve developer experience via automation and tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Ownership

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Job description

This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in United Arab Emirates.

Pay: $350000$500000/yr

Job Title: Director of Infrastructure Engineering

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

The Role

Were looking for a Director of Infrastructure Engineering to build and scale the platform that powers production AI systems. Youll own the strategy and execution behind our cloud infrastructure developer platform and reliability practices ensuring our systems remain secure observable and resilient as we grow.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys operating at every levelfrom defining long-term infrastructure strategy to solving production incidents and mentoring high-performing engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Own the architecture and evolution of our multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP optimizing for scalability reliability security and cost.
• Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure/Platform Engineering team while establishing a strong engineering culture centered on ownership operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Build infrastructure as code using Terraform (or equivalent) ensuring reproducible version-controlled and auditable environments.
• Design and improve CI/CD systems that enable fast reliable and secure software delivery.
• Build world-class observability across metrics logs traces and alerting to proactively detect and resolve production issues.
• Define and drive reliability practices including incident response on-call operations SLOs error budgets disaster recovery and blameless postmortems.
• Partner closely with Security and Engineering leadership to embed security by default and maintain compliance with frameworks such as ISO 27001 SOC 2 and CMMC.
• Continuously improve the developer experience by reducing operational friction through automation and platform tooling.

What Were Looking For

• 8 years building and operating production infrastructure platform engineering DevOps or SRE systems.
• 3 years leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Deep expertise with AWS GCP or multi-cloud production environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform Kubernetes containers and modern CI/CD platforms.
• Proven experience building highly available observable and resilient production systems.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security compliance and operational risk management.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations and infrastructure in fast-moving startup environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical strategy across engineering and executive stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure or large-scale data platforms.
• Familiarity with model training inference evaluation or data pipeline infrastructure.
• Experience operating regulated cloud environments such as FedRAMP GovCloud or CMMC Level 2.
• Contributions to platform engineering open-source infrastructure or developer productivity initiatives.

Compensation & Benefits Notice

The national pay range for this full-time position is base salary of $230000 $260000. All employees are eligible for equity compensation and employees may also receive performance-based bonuses dependent on role and subject to company policies. The company provides a comprehensive benefits package including up to 100% reimbursement for health-insurance premiums paid time off a 401(K) plan with a company match and additional benefits designed to support a high-performing remote-first workforce.

the company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity) national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation during the application process reach out to us by replying to our email.

Our hiring process utilizes artificial intelligence tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement not replace human decision-making.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this job posting including but not limited to role responsibilities qualifications compensation and benefits is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a binding offer of employment. the company reserves the right to amend modify or withdraw any portion of this posting at its sole discretion and without prior notice. All employment decisions are made in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.