Director, Corporate Infrastructure

Nscale•Seattle, WA

20h•$160,000 - $270,000

About The Position

We're hiring a Director of Corporate Infrastructure to define and lead Nscale's global corporate infrastructure capability as we scale across offices, data-centre locations, cloud environments and remote teams. You'll own the strategy, architecture, standards and operational performance of our corporate infrastructure estate, spanning corporate networks, WAN connectivity, office infrastructure, corporate cloud services, monitoring and observability. You'll establish a secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure model, with clear boundaries between corporate infrastructure, cloud, production networks and operational technology environments. You'll work closely with Information Security, Data Centre Operations, Cloud, Engineering and external service providers, building the corporate infrastructure capability as Nscale grows.

Requirements

Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, corporate networks or infrastructure platform strategy and operations.
Strong expertise across WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, routing, switching, firewalls, remote access and internet connectivity.
Experience designing secure, resilient infrastructure across multiple countries and locations, with a strong understanding of SD-WAN, segmentation, zero-trust access, infrastructure security and operational resilience.
Understanding of data-centre networks, production network boundaries and operational technology networks.
Experience managing monitoring, observability, configuration management and infrastructure tooling.
Strong leadership, stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a rapidly scaling international technology, cloud, infrastructure or AI organisation.
Experience with corporate infrastructure in large data-centre environments.
Experience integrating infrastructure following acquisitions.
Familiarity with SASE, zero-trust network access, identity-based access or cloud connectivity.
Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus or similar compliance frameworks.
Experience establishing a global infrastructure capability, operating model and technical standards.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver our global corporate infrastructure strategy, architecture and roadmap.
Establish standards for resilience, segmentation, security, monitoring, observability and lifecycle management.
Design infrastructure models that support new offices, acquisitions, data-centre locations and international growth.
Maintain clear ownership boundaries across infrastructure environments, and govern technical designs, exceptions and significant changes.
Own the corporate WAN connecting offices, data-centre locations, cloud services and remote users.
Define standards for internet connectivity, SD-WAN, private connectivity, routing and resilience.
Own corporate LAN, Wi-Fi, guest networks and office internet services, with secure segmentation across corporate, guest and operational networks.
Manage carriers, managed-service providers and network contracts.
Own corporate cloud infrastructure standards and operating models for internal technology services, including cloud connectivity, landing zones, access, resilience and cost governance.
Own infrastructure monitoring, observability, configuration management and diagnostic tooling.
Define availability, performance, capacity and service-health metrics, and improve automation, alerting, reporting and operational workflows.
Define secure remote-access and connectivity patterns for employees, contractors and third parties, and own or govern VPN, zero-trust network access and network authentication services.
Partner with Information Security on segmentation, access control, logging and infrastructure-security requirements.
Ensure firewalls, infrastructure configurations and administrative access are securely governed, and support security investigations, audits and remediation.
Own infrastructure standards for offices, admin buildings and corporate spaces within data-centre locations.
Provide technical oversight for office openings, moves, expansions and fit-outs.
Work with Data Centre Operations to define support boundaries for corporate, production and operational technology networks.
Ensure local infrastructure is resilient, secure, supportable and aligned to global standards.
Build and lead the corporate infrastructure capability, providing technical direction to internal teams, regional support engineers and delivery partners.
Manage infrastructure suppliers, service providers and commercial relationships.
Develop investment plans, budgets and business cases for infrastructure improvements.
Communicate infrastructure risks, priorities and dependencies clearly to senior stakeholders.