Director, Cloud Infra & AI Platform

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Convene Hospitality Group is seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead cloud, AI-ready platforms, and observability across venues. This hands-on leadership role focuses on AWS, IaC, and end-to-end CI/CD, enabling secure, governed deployments while supporting AI-enabled experiences for our global venues.

You will drive cost forecasting, tooling decisions, and platform migration, while maintaining high agency and cross‑team collaboration to ship reliably at scale.

Qualifications

• 9+ years building and running production cloud infrastructure.
• Deep AWS experience: multi-account structure, networking, IAM, and container orchestration on EKS/ECS.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Built or rebuilt CI/CD pipelines used by teams.
• Security and governance as design inputs.
• Experience with AI systems in production (MLOps a plus).
• Ability to estimate costs and defend numbers.
• High agency and ownership of migrations.
• Problem solver across architecture and operations.
• Open and share knowledge with runbooks and backups.

Responsibilities

• Rebuild the deployment path; own CI/CD end-to-end from build to rollback.
• Ensure safety, security, governance; manage access, audits, environments.
• Define platform tooling; migrate tooling choices and document trade-offs.
• Run the AI gateway and observability; manage provider routing and cost attribution.
• Enable AI-first, spec-driven development with guardrails and environments.
• Forecast cloud and AI costs; partner with Finance on budgeting.
• Support in-venue networking applications and visibility for monitoring.
• Build observability layer with logging, metrics and alerts.
• Disseminate knowledge; write runbooks and ensure cross-team handoff.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AWS expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Security & governance

MLOps awareness

Cost estimation

Proactive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation & runbooks

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Kubernetes

Job description

Convene Hospitality Group is seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead cloud, AI-ready platforms, and observability across venues. This hands-on leadership role focuses on AWS, IaC, and end-to-end CI/CD, enabling secure, governed deployments while supporting AI-enabled experiences for our global venues.

You will drive cost forecasting, tooling decisions, and platform migration, while maintaining high agency and cross‑team collaboration to ship reliably at scale.