Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise infrastructure and hosting strategy aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Lead modernization initiatives across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup/recovery, and data center operations.
• Oversee hybrid infrastructure environments including enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, and public cloud platforms.
• Drive infrastructure lifecycle management, capacity planning, resiliency, and availability improvements.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet enterprise requirements for performance, scalability, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Establish operational standards, governance models, and engineering best practices across infrastructure domains.
• Lead enterprise cloud operations and engineering across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Drive cloud adoption, migration, optimization, and modernization programs.
• Establish cloud governance frameworks covering security, architecture standards, automation, tagging, compliance, and operational controls.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity teams to ensure secure and compliant cloud operations.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, and self-service platform capabilities.
• Enable scalable cloud platform operations supporting enterprise applications and services globally.
• Establish and lead enterprise FinOps governance, reporting, and optimization programs.
• Drive cloud cost transparency, accountability, forecasting, budgeting, and optimization initiatives.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards for infrastructure utilization, cloud consumption, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Technology leaders to optimize infrastructure spend and vendor contracts.
• Identify opportunities for automation, rightsizing, reserved instances, storage optimization, and operational efficiencies.
• Lead financial planning activities related to infrastructure and cloud investments.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and operational performance of enterprise infrastructure services.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Establish SLAs, SLOs, operational metrics, and service health reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across operations, engineering, and service delivery.
• Implement automation and AI-enabled operational efficiencies where appropriate.
• Support enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Lead and develop high-performing global infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Build organizational capability in cloud engineering, automation, FinOps, and modern infrastructure practices.
• Manage workforce planning, succession planning, vendor resources, and strategic hiring.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for senior technology and business leaders.
• Manage strategic relationships with cloud providers, infrastructure vendors, managed service providers, and colocation partners.
• Lead vendor negotiations, contract governance, performance management, and service reviews.
• Ensure vendor services align with enterprise expectations for cost, reliability, security, and operational performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud operations, data center management, or platform engineering.
• 7+ years leading global technical teams and large-scale enterprise infrastructure operations.
• Deep expertise across enterprise infrastructure domains including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud platforms, and operational tooling.
• Strong experience leading hybrid cloud environments and cloud transformation programs.
• Proven experience building or leading FinOps, cloud optimization, or infrastructure financial governance programs.
• Experience managing large operational budgets, technology vendors, and strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, governance, compliance, and resiliency frameworks.
• Demonstrated success driving operational transformation, automation, and service modernization initiatives.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or related discipline.
• Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect, ITIL, FinOps Certified Practitioner, or equivalent.
• Experience operating within large global enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing AIOps, observability, infrastructure automation, or platform engineering practices.
• Experience supporting regulated or highly secure enterprise environments.