NexGen Cloud is a rapidly growing IaaS company focused on providing innovative cloud solutions and infrastructure services. Our GPU cloud infrastructure solutions accelerate development in industries such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, VFX & Rendering, Data Science & IoT, and Computer Aided Engineering & MDO.

We are dedicated to helping our clients navigate the complexities of the digital world and achieve success through cutting-edge, scalable, secure and affordable solutions.

We are seeking a Head of Infrastructure to lead NexGen Cloud’s global infrastructure ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role, guiding a highly technical team and driving innovation across our infrastructure landscape.

You will oversee a high-performing global engineering organization, advancing maturity in process design, incident management, capacity planning, and compliance programs.

The ideal candidate brings strategic clarity, process discipline, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure NexGen’s infrastructure remains robust, scalable, and enterprise-ready as the company continues its rapid global growth.

Provide Strategic Leadership

• Lead and develop a global infrastructure organization, setting clear direction, measurable objectives, and high standards of delivery.
• Build alignment, accountability, and operational discipline across distributed teams.

Define and Execute Strategy

• Own the global infrastructure roadmap to deliver scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Translate company objectives into actionable, measurable infrastructure outcomes.

Drive Operational Maturity

• Embed process discipline, documentation and evidence-based decision-making.
• Introduce scalable frameworks for delivery, prioritization and reporting.

Oversee Incident & Risk Management

• Lead critical incident response and recovery, ensuring RCA, transparency and preventative actions.
• Build resilient systems and risk controls that enable predictable operations.

Capacity Planning & Optimization

• Develop proactive capacity planning and forecasting for GPUs, data centers and networks.
• Balance performance, cost, and availability through data-driven scaling strategies.

Ensure Compliance, Security and Documentation Excellence

• Establish and enforce adherence to security policies, standards and regulatory requirements while maintaining comprehensive documentation, standard operating procedures and architectural records that underpin reliable, auditable infrastructure operations.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership teams to align infrastructure initiatives with business growth.
• Serve as the strategic voice for infrastructure in company-wide planning and execution.

Qualifications & Leadership Attributes

• 7+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 3+ years in senior leadership roles overseeing multi-disciplinary or global teams.
• Proven success building and /or scaling process-driven infrastructure organizations that balance reliability, cost efficiency and innovation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, setting vision, structure and accountability across technical and operational teams.
• Experience in incident management, capacity planning and compliance governance, with a focus on continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Understanding of datacentre operations, GPU/HPC environments and infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible) is a plus.
• Exceptional communicator who builds alignment across the team and simplifies complex technical concepts into actionable strategy.
• A strategic, process-oriented leader who balances innovation with operational discipline, nurturing a culture of clarity, evidence and execution.

This is a remote position, ideally based in the UK or Spain.

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion drives our success as a company and reflects our dedication to fostering a diverse and innovative workforce.

Join our team and become a part of the NexGen Cloud Team, where innovation, collaboration, and growth are at the heart of everything we do. If you are a passionate, talented, and motivated individual looking to make a difference, apply now!