Director IT Infrastructure

StoneX Group Inc. is a Fortune 100 global financial services firm connecting clients to markets across asset classes and geographies. Our technology underpins trading clearing and settlement at scale where reliability performance and security are non-negotiable. Our Bangalore office is a strategic engineering and operations hub and this role sits at the center of how we keep a global follow-the-sun infrastructure running.

Were hiring a Director of Infrastructure Management to lead the teams responsible for the core compute operating systems and database platforms that power StoneX globally. Based in Bangalore youll own the reliability performance and resilience of infrastructure that spans multiple regions and runs 24/7 in a demanding low-latency financial environment leading a distributed group of managers and engineers and partnering closely with security networking and application teams. This is a senior leadership role with global scope high visibility and a foundation of deep technical credibility.

The Director of Infrastructure Operations is accountable for the stability scalability and security of StoneXs global infrastructure platforms. Key responsibilities 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.

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

Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related field.

Relevant certifications (RHCE cloud architect/engineer ITIL) a plus.

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 StoneXs 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.