Director - IT Infrastructure

StoneX Group Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

StoneX Group Inc. is seeking a leader in Bangalore to manage global infrastructure teams across Database Operations and Linux Engineering. With a focus on reliability and AI-driven automation, the role is critical for maintaining a performant 24/7 trading environment.

Ideal candidates will have over 12 years in IT infrastructure, including significant experience leading teams in a regulated financial services environment. A strong background in Linux and cloud platforms will be essential as the role supports StoneX's mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in IT infrastructure/systems engineering, with 5+ years leading teams.
• Proven track record in high-availability environments.
• Experience leading distributed, multi-region teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead globally distributed teams across Database Operations, Systems/Server Operations, and Linux Engineering.
• Own reliability and performance for mission-critical trading systems.
• Drive modernization and automation through infrastructure-as-code.

Skills

Linux engineering

Database operations

Team leadership

Cloud platforms

AI-driven automation

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

StoneX Group Inc. is a Fortune 100 global financial services firm connecting clients to markets across asset classes and geographies. Our technology underpins trading, clearing, and settlement at scale — where reliability, performance, and security are non-negotiable. Our Bangalore office is a strategic engineering and operations hub, and this role sits at the center of how we keep a global, follow-the-sun infrastructure running.

Responsibilities

• Lead globally distributed teams across Database Operations, Systems/Server Operations, and Linux Engineering — setting direction, developing managers, and building a high‑performing, accountable engineering culture.
• Own reliability and performance for mission‑critical, 24/7 trading and back‑office systems, with clear SLAs, error budgets, and measurable uptime targets.
• Drive modernization and automation — reduce toil through infrastructure‑as‑code and self‑healing systems; advance cloud and hybrid strategies.
• Lead Agentic AI adoption across infrastructure operations — implement AI‑driven agents and automation to streamline processes, reduce cost, and shorten incident detection‑to‑resolution (MTTR) on mission‑critical systems.
• Establish operational excellence — mature incident, problem, and change management; lead major‑incident response and blameless post‑incident reviews.
• Strengthen security and compliance with InfoSec — patching, hardening, access governance, and audit readiness in a regulated environment.
• Manage capacity, lifecycle, and cost across data centers and cloud — forecasting, OS/hardware refresh cycles, and right‑sizing for performance and spend.
• Grow the Bangalore hub — build regional capability, talent, and ownership within a seamless follow‑the‑sun global operating model.

Qualifications

Experience & Leadership

• 12+ years in IT infrastructure / systems engineering, with 5+ years leading teams — including leading managers.
• Proven track record running mission‑critical, high‑availability environments — ideally financial services, trading, or another regulated, low‑latency industry.
• Experience leading distributed, multi‑region teams in a follow‑the‑sun model.

Technical Depth

• Strong command of Linux engineering at enterprise scale (RHEL or equivalent).
• Solid grounding in database operations (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and systems/server operations across hybrid data‑center + cloud.
• Hands‑on with automation/IaC (Ansible, Terraform), observability, and modern incident management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Agentic AI / AI‑driven automation in production operations to streamline workflows, reduce cost, and lower incident resolution time.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure / AWS) and virtualization (Broadcomm, Nutanix).

Leadership Competencies

• A builder of people and teams who coaches managers and raises the hiring bar.
• Calm and decisive under pressure; outcomes‑driven and process‑anchored.
• Communicates fluidly from deep technical detail to executive stakeholders.

Preferred

• Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Relevant certifications (RHCE, cloud architect/engineer, ITIL) a plus.

Rationale for the Role

• Backfill of a critical leadership role — replaces the departing Director (leaving end of September) who leads Database Operations, Systems Operations, and Linux Engineering, the platforms running StoneX's 24/7 global trading infrastructure. Leaving it vacant risks reliability and incident governance on revenue‑critical systems.
• Strategically repositioned to Bangalore — the team is already distributed across London, Krakow, and New York, so Bangalore adds follow‑the‑sun coverage, taps deep senior infrastructure and AI talent, and delivers cost efficiency while growing our India engineering hub.
• Hire now to drive continuity and AI‑led modernization — an immediate start enables knowledge‑transfer overlap with the departing Director and accelerates Agentic AI adoption that streamlines operations, reduces cost, and cuts incident resolution time.