Managing Director-Delivery

About the Role

Lead the strategy, engineering, and operations of the enterprise cloud platform. Responsible for enabling secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, platform services, automation, developer productivity, and AI platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• AI Platform Enablement
  • Build and support enterprise AI platform capabilities including GenAI, LLM, and AI development services.
  • Enable secure access to platforms such as Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and similar services.
  • Establish governance, security, and cost controls for AI workloads.
  • Accelerate adoption of AI-assisted engineering and business solutions.
• Cloud Platform Leadership
  • Define and execute the cloud platform strategy and roadmap.
  • Establish cloud architecture standards, governance, and engineering best practices.
  • Lead modernization and adoption of cloud-native technologies.
• Platform Engineering & Automation
  • Build self-service platform capabilities for application teams.
  • Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and automation initiatives.
  • Improve developer experience through platform engineering and CI/CD capabilities.
• Cloud & Kubernetes Operations
  • Lead enterprise container and Kubernetes platform initiatives.
  • Ensure platform reliability, scalability, observability, and disaster recovery readiness.
  • Implement SRE practices and operational excellence frameworks.
• Security, Governance & FinOps
  • Implement cloud security, compliance, and governance controls.
  • Drive cloud and AI cost optimization through FinOps practices.
  • Establish operational metrics, SLOs, and platform performance KPIs.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management
  • Lead teams of cloud engineers, platform engineers, DevOps, and SRE professionals.
  • Partner with application, security, data, and product teams.
  • Communicate platform strategy and investment priorities to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 5+ years leading cloud/platform engineering teams.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or multi-cloud environments.
• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, cloud networking, observability, and security.
• Experience building and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience enabling AI/ML or Generative AI platforms within cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, OpenAI, or Anthropic.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and FinOps practices.
• Cloud certifications from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.