Director - IT Infrastructure

Position Purpose The Director of Infrastructure Operations is accountable for the stability, scalability, and security of StoneX's global infrastructure platforms. Primary duties will include: Lead globally distributed teams across Database Operations, Systems/Server Operations, and Linux Engineering setting direction, developing managers, and building a high-performing, accountable engineering culture. Own reliability and performance for mission-critical, 24/7 trading and back-office systems, with clear SLAs, error budgets, and measurable uptime targets.Drive modernization and automation reduce toil through infrastructure-as-code and self-healing systems; advance cloud and hybrid strategies.Lead Agentic AI adoption across infrastructure operations implement AI-driven agents and automation to streamline processes, reduce cost, and shorten incident detection-to-resolution (MTTR) on mission-critical systems.Establish operational excellence mature incident, problem, and change management; lead major-incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.Strengthen security and compliance with InfoSec patching, hardening, access governance, and audit readiness in a regulated environment.Manage capacity, lifecycle, and cost across data centers and cloud forecasting, OS/hardware refresh cycles, and right-sizing for performance and spend.Grow the Bangalore hub build regional capability, talent, and ownership within a seamless follow-the-sun global operating model. Qualifications: To land this role you will need: Experience & Leadership 12+ years in IT infrastructure / systems engineering, with 5+ years leading teams including leading managers.Proven track record running mission-critical, high-availability environments ideally financial services, trading, or another regulated, low-latency industry.Experience leading distributed, multi-region teams in a follow-the-sun model. Technical Depth Strong command of Linux engineering at enterprise scale (RHEL or equivalent).Solid grounding in database operations (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and systems/server operations across hybrid data-center + cloud.Hands-on with automation/IaC (Ansible, Terraform), observability, and modern incident management.Demonstrated experience implementing Agentic AI / AI-driven automation in production operations to streamline workflows, reduce cost, and lower incident resolution time.Working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure / AWS) and virtualization (Broadcomm, Nutanix). Leadership Competencies A builder of people and teams who coaches managers and raises the hiring bar.Calm and decisive under pressure; outcomes-driven and process-anchored.Communicates fluidly from deep technical detail to executive stakeholders. Preferred Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.Relevant certifications (RHCE, cloud architect/engineer, ITIL) a plus. RATIONALE FOR THE ROLE Backfill of a critical leadership role replaces the departing Director (leaving end of September) who leads Database Operations, Systems Operations, and Linux Engineering, the platforms running StoneX's 24/7 global trading infrastructure. Leaving it vacant risks reliability and incident governance on revenue-critical systems.Strategically repositioned to Bangalore the team is already distributed across London, Krakow, and New York, so Bangalore adds follow-the-sun coverage, taps deep senior infrastructure and AI talent, and delivers cost efficiency while growing our India engineering hub.Hire now to drive continuity and AI-led modernization an immediate start enables knowledge-transfer overlap with the departing Director and accelerates Agentic AI adoption that streamlines operations, reduces cost, and cuts incident resolution time. .