Director, Corporate Infrastructure

New York; San Francisco; Seattle

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture

• 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.

Corporate Networks and Connectivity

• 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.

Cloud, Monitoring, and Tooling

• 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.

Remote Access and Infrastructure Security

• 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.

Office and Data-Centre Site Infrastructure

• 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 with global standards.

Leadership and Supplier Management

• 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.

KPIs

• Infrastructure availability
• Infrastructure performance
• Infrastructure capacity
• Infrastructure service health

About You

• 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.

Highly Desirable

• Experience supporting a rapidly scaling international technology, cloud, infrastructure, or AI organization.
• 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.

We Offer

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.
• Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies - your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed.
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy - always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

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Salary Range

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

$160,000 - $270,000 USD

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