Director of Infrastructure

Job Description:

Overview

Rogue Fitness is accelerating AI across manufacturing, warehousing, and e‑commerce and needs a hands-on leader to build the MLOps platform, enhance SRE, and keep our hybrid infrastructure state‑of‑the‑art. You’ll own everything from GPU clusters and data pipelines to uptime, security, and factory networks, partnering with Technology and Solutions Directors to deploy AI at speed. Your mandate: deliver measurable gains in throughput, cost savings, and customer experience to keep Rogue ahead of the pack.

Responsibilities

• AI Infrastructure:

  • Build and lead the cross‑functional team that designs, scales, and operates Rogue’s production MLOps platform—covering data pipelines, model versioning, automated deployments, and real‑time monitoring across on‑prem and cloud GPU clusters

  • Own reliability, performance, and cost management for all AI compute and storage—capacity planning, incident response, and continuous optimization to meet SLA/SLO targets

• Site Reliability:

  • Direct the SRE organization that safeguards roguefitness.com and all internal apps—defining SLIs/SLOs, automating CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring release velocity without sacrificing stability

  • Drive proactive reliability engineering: establish unified observability, conduct capacity and chaos testing, and lead rapid incident response to keep MTTR low and uptime above targets

  • Own continuous improvement of performance, scalability, and cost efficiency—partnering with product and infrastructure teams to embed reliability best practices from design through deployment

• Traditional Infrastructure:

  • Oversee end‑to‑end operations of on‑premises and cloud infrastructure—Windows/Linux servers, storage, backups, DR, networks, and collaboration platforms—managed through infrastructure‑as‑code and real‑time dashboards

  • Lead lifecycle planning and execution for upgrades, migrations, and capacity expansions, enforcing disciplined change control, budget stewardship, and clear communication to stakeholders

  • Establish and monitor service performance and security standards (availability, latency, compliance) while mentoring engineering staff and aligning roadmaps with business objectives

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field

• 10+ yrs experience in hybrid infrastructure with 3+ yrs as a manager

• 4+ years running production MLOps pipelines

• 4+ years leading SRE/DevOps practices: CI/CD, metrics, rapid rollbacks

• Hands-on with Azure/GCP, Windows/AD, Google Workspace, virtualization, Terraform/Bicep, modern observability

• Networking & security team lead: VLANs, firewalls, Zero‑Trust, incident response

Preferred Qualifications

• Managed ML Ops and SRE teams for highly dynamic companies

• Experience in online retail, manufacturing, and/or warehousing companies

• OT experience: Modbus, segmented VLANs, factory networks

• Tuned edge‑security services like Cloudflare, Google Cloud Armor, or AWS WAF

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