Remote Director, Cloud Infra & AI Platform

Convene Hospitality Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Time Off & Balance

Financial Growth

Development & Recognition

Community & Impact

Job summary

Convene Hospitality Group is seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our AWS-based platform across venues and products. This is a hands-on role with significant autonomy, focusing on scalable, secure, and AI-enabled infrastructure.

You will own CI/CD, IaC, cost governance, and the AI gateway, collaborating with product and corporate engineering to push toward an AI-first, spec-driven development culture.

Qualifications

• 9+ years building and running production cloud infrastructure.
• Deep AWS expertise including multi-account, IAM, networking.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform or equivalent.
• Built or rebuilt a CI/CD pipeline used by teams.
• Security and governance as design inputs, with least privilege and audit trails.
• Experience with AI systems in production and ML ops is a plus.
• Ability to estimate and defend cloud spend against budgets.
• High agency to drive platform decisions and migrations.
• Collaborates with application/data teams on architecture and handoffs.
• Communicates decisions and trade-offs clearly to engineers and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Rebuild the deployment path with end-to-end CI/CD including release and rollback.
• Make deployments safe, secure, governed, with access control and audit trails.
• Define platform calls: source control, CI tooling, orchestration, and IaC patterns.
• Run the AI gateway: provider routing, key management, rate limits, and logging.
• Enable AI-first, spec-driven development with guardrails and automated verification.
• Forecast cloud and AI costs, providing Finance with actionable numbers.
• Support in-venue networking applications with visibility for the networking team.
• Build observability layer: logging, metrics, and alerting across systems.
• Document runbooks and ensure knowledge is shared across teams.

Skills

9+ years of experience

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Security & governance

MLOps

Cost modeling

High agency

Architecture collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools

EKS/ECS

Job description

Convene Hospitality Group is seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our AWS-based platform across venues and products. This is a hands-on role with significant autonomy, focusing on scalable, secure, and AI-enabled infrastructure.

You will own CI/CD, IaC, cost governance, and the AI gateway, collaborating with product and corporate engineering to push toward an AI-first, spec-driven development culture.