Senior Director, Platform & AI Infrastructure

Fortive

Director of Platform & AI Infrastructure overseeing AI platform, incident management, and cloud infrastructure for Gordian. Leading global teams to optimize AI/ML performance and reliability.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudMongoDBOracleSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the AI/ML platform: GPU capacity strategy, model serving and inference latency, training and fine-tuning infrastructure, MLOps and evaluation pipelines, vector and feature stores, and the RAG and agentic patterns our product teams build on.
Build out the incident response program: on-call structure, severity definitions, incident command, communication standards, postmortems, and follow-through on systemic fixes.
Develop the observability stack across metrics, logs, traces, and synthetics. Set SLOs and report against them.
Operate the Azure and OCI footprint. Infrastructure-as-code, capacity planning, and reliability across CPU and GPU workloads.
Operations, performance, HA/DR, and roadmap for Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and similar.
Brief executives on reliability and risk. Lead internal communication during incidents. Speak to customers when major incidents affect them.
Lead a globally distributed team of managers and senior ICs. Maintain a strong culture and leadership bench.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or AI/ML infrastructure, with 5+ leading teams.
Production experience running ML/AI workloads at scale, including GPU infrastructure, model serving, MLOps, or LLM/inference platforms.
Familiarity with the modern AI stack: vector databases, RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, and the build-vs-buy tradeoffs across foundation model providers and open-source.
Built or rebuilt an incident response or observability program at scale.
Measurable reliability improvements (MTTR, availability, change failure rate) in a cloud environment.
Effective communicator with executives, the Board, customers, and the company during incidents.
Zero-trust and modern identity platforms.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, vision, life and LTD insurance
HSA
401(k) retirement plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

GPU Infrastructure ManagementMLOpsModel ServingIncident CommandCapacity PlanningReliability EngineeringZero-Trust SecurityObservability MetricsDatabase ManagementAI Stack Familiarity

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationLeadershipCrisis Management