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IT Director - AI Infrastructure and Platform

Hays Hong Kong
Posted 2 days ago Permanent Competitive

IT Director - AI Infrastructure and Platform

Hays Hong Kong
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Our client is a forward-thinking organisation seeking an experienced IT Director, AI Infrastructure & Platform, to lead the strategy, architecture, and operations of its next-generation AI technology environment. This role will be responsible for defining and executing the organisation's AI infrastructure and platform strategy, ensuring a scalable, secure, and high-performing technology foundation to support AI model training, deployment, and enterprise-wide AI operations.

Your new role
  • Define and drive the overall AI Infrastructure and AI Platform strategy aligned with business objectives.
  • Lead the design, deployment, and operation of large-scale AI compute environments, including CPU, GPU, TPU, and accelerator-based clusters.
  • Establish scalable platforms to support AI model training, inference, LLM workloads, and emerging GenAI use cases.
  • Oversee AI platform engineering, container orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure capabilities.
  • Drive MLOps and platform automation initiatives to improve model deployment, monitoring, governance, and life cycle management.
  • Lead infrastructure architecture across networking, storage, compute, and high-performance computing environments.
  • Ensure platform reliability, performance, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Partner closely with Emerging Technology, AI Engineering, Data Centre, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams on strategic technology initiatives.
  • Oversee internal infrastructure and platform teams while managing the performance and delivery of external vendors across software, hardware, cloud, and managed service providers.
  • Establish operational governance, technology standards, capacity planning, and performance management frameworks for enterprise AI platforms.

What you'll need to succeed
  • Bachelor's Degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology, AI, Data Science, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related discipline.
  • 15+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform Engineering, Data Centre, or Enterprise Technology leadership roles.
  • Strong understanding of AI Infrastructure, High Performance Computing (HPC), and enterprise-scale AI platforms.
  • Solid experience with CPU/GPU/TPU cluster architecture, capacity planning, workload scheduling, resource orchestration, and infrastructure optimisation.
  • Experience managing distributed computing environments supporting machine learning, GenAI, and large-scale AI workloads.
  • Strong knowledge of AI model life cycle management, MLOps, LLMOps, and AI platform engineering practices.
  • Hands-on exposure to Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native platform technologies.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise networking, high-speed data transport, storage platforms, cybersecurity, and modern data centre infrastructure.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Alibaba Cloud.
  • Familiarity with AI training environments, model serving, inference platforms, vector databases, and enterprise AI deployment architectures.
  • Strong stakeholder management and leadership experience, with the ability to influence technology strategy and investment decisions at senior executive levels.
  • Fluent in English and Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin). Candidates should currently be based in Hong Kong and possess valid working rights.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this exciting opportunity, please don't delay and click APPLY NOW. For more information, please contact Kelvin Chu at kelvin.chu@hays.com.hk .
Job ID  1287798
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