Infrastructure Services Director

About This Role

Lead the establishment and operation of a high-performance AI R&D Lab/Data Center (TALON), delivering high-quality, self-service infrastructure for AI R&D teams. This role involves strategic planning, deep technical expertise, and an unyielding commitment to CMMC compliance and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Center Hardware and Software Acquisition, finalizing labor needs and coordinating with OEMs, VARs, Software Vendors, and partners to build compute and transport infrastructure in TALON lab
• Operationalize Data Center, overseeing delivery, receipt, installation, racking/stacking, configuration, integration, and making infrastructure available for service
• Manage TALON Data Center in Dulles, VA, applying DevOps principles in operating and managing configurations for all assets within the TALON on-premise data center, remote nodes, and cloud environments
• Attain CMMC Accreditation for TALON environments, establishing and driving the plan for CMMC accreditation while future-proofing the infrastructure strategy
• Design, implement, and operate network segments and associated infrastructure to securely meet the unique needs of TALON AI cyber projects
• Serve as Technical Lead and administrator for TALON Data Center and TALON lab IT infrastructure
• Maintain data center, audio visual, wifi, software, and all lab IT infrastructure
• Plan, provision, and optimize AWS/Azure/GCP (compute, networking, IAM, cost control); enforce guardrails and landing zones
• Design and secure LAN/WAN/SD-WAN/Wi-Fi, firewalls, with experience managing NIPR and SIPR, and high-level knowledge of JWICS networks
• Implement zero-trust controls, patching, identity, logging/SIEM, and audit readiness (NIST/ISO), and CMMC standards
• Own the service catalog, SLAs, capacity planning, vendor contracts, and budget
• Coordinate with facilities on power, cooling, UPS/generators, and physical security for server rooms

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with core infrastructure operations (Windows/Linux, virtualization, storage, backups, and disaster recovery)
• HPC cluster system administration, preferably in rapid AI and cyber solution prototyping environments
• Experience with state of the art GPU technologies and their integration into HPC environments (driver management, software stack tools, monitoring, workload scheduling)
• Experience with Infiniband, NVLink, NVQLink, Spectrum-X (driver management, software stack tools, monitoring)
• Experience with Container platforms (ex Apptainer, docker, openshift, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Familiarity and prior work experience with technologies such as Ansible, GIT, Slurm, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana and Docker
• Slurm or other cluster schedulers, configuration and management solutions
• NFS, SMB, and distributed object, file, and block storage management and configuration
• High-performance parallel filesystem management and configuration
• Experience installing and repairing servers and associated cluster hardware
• Experience in devising a CMMC strategy and the successful attainment of a CMMC Level 3 accreditation for an AI powered R&D lab serving a government contractor

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with core infrastructure operations and HPC cluster system administration.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits