Vice President, Cloud Engineering & Operations

Vice President, Cloud Engineering & Operations

• Vice President, Cloud Engineering & Operations

Salary : based on experience plus bonus

• Do you enjoy translating enterprise technology strategy into secure, resilient, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure and cloud environments?
• Are you energized by leading large-scale cloud transformation and modernization initiatives while balancing innovation, operational excellence, financial discipline, and risk management?
• Do you thrive in highly collaborative, regulated environments where technology reliability, resilience, and serve delivery are critical to organizational success?
• Are you a hands-on technology leader who can engage credibly with engineers and technical leaders while also serving as a strategic partner to executive leadership?

Our client is a highly respected financial services organization committed to delivering exceptional service, operational excellence, and long-term stewardship. The organization operates within a sophisticated and highly regulated environment where technology resilience, security, reliability, and disciplined risk management are critical to its continued success.

Guided by a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and service, the organization is investing significantly in its technology capabilities to modernize infrastructure, expand cloud adoption, strengthen operational resilience, and build scalable technology platforms for the future.

This is an opportunity to play a critical role in shaping how infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform engineering, and technology operations evolve. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a meaningful enterprise-wide impact while leading a talented team through a period of continued modernization and transformation.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Vice President, Cloud Engineering & Operations serves as the senior leader responsible for the strategy, delivery, reliability, security, and operation of the organization’s infrastructure platforms and technology operations services.

The Vice President will lead an integrated organization spanning Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability, Service Delivery, and Technology Operations. This executive will balance strategic planning with operational accountability, providing leadership for cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, operational resilience, service delivery, and continuous improvement.

The Vice President serves as the principal leader for cloud transformation initiatives, including migration of enterprise workloads from traditional infrastructure and colocation-hosted environments to modern cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure while ensuring appropriate governance, reliability, risk management, and cost optimization.

Cloud Engineering & Technology Operations Strategy

• Partner with the Chief Technology Officer to develop and execute an enterprise cloud engineering and operations strategy aligned with the organization’s technology roadmap, business priorities, risk appetite, and financial objectives.
• Establish clear priorities, governance practices, performance expectations, and accountability across Cloud Engineering & Operations.
• Develop technology roadmaps that balance near‑term operational stability with long‑term modernization.
• Ensure infrastructure, cloud, and operational capabilities support the organization’s current and future business needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and technology leadership on cloud, infrastructure, operations, resilience, and technology investment decisions.
• Translate complex technology considerations into clear business implications, alternatives, recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the organization’s cloud adoption strategy and enterprise workload migration initiatives.
• Oversee the migration, optimization, and ongoing operation of enterprise workloads utilizing cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or similar platforms.
• Establish cloud governance,…