Infra & AI Systems Lead - Cloud, Automation & Growth

OP2 Labs, LLC; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Company computer

Wellness stipend

Employee recognition program

Discounts on products

Job summary

OP2 Labs in Fort Worth, TX is seeking an experienced Manager of Technology Infrastructure & AI Systems to own strategy, operations, and modernization of our IT landscape. You will lead a hands-on team and collaborate with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to align technology with growth objectives.

The role emphasizes cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, responsible AI governance, incident response, and cost optimization, with a focus on AI tool integration (LLMs like

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of IT infrastructure (cloud, on-premises, hybrid, networking, identity, endpoint, and core services) and enterprise applications.
• Deploy internally developed advanced AI applications into production.
• Define and execute the technology roadmap for infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, cost optimization, and observability.
• Lead the evaluation, integration, and operationalization of advanced AI tools and platforms (including Grok and Claude) to enhance internal operations, automation, support, and decision-making.
• Establish governance, security, and responsible-use policies for AI systems while ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Manage infrastructure and application vendors, contracts, SLAs, and performance; drive continuous improvement and cost efficiency.
• Build, mentor, and lead a small high-performing team.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure and AI capabilities with organizational priorities.
• Maintain hands-on technical credibility: review architectures, contribute to automation and tooling, and stay current with emerging infrastructure and AI technologies.
• Drive incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD for infrastructure, monitoring, and AI-assisted operations.

Job description

OP2 Labs in Fort Worth, TX is seeking an experienced Manager of Technology Infrastructure & AI Systems to own strategy, operations, and modernization of our IT landscape. You will lead a hands-on team and collaborate with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to align technology with growth objectives.

The role emphasizes cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, responsible AI governance, incident response, and cost optimization, with a focus on AI tool integration (LLMs like