Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Operations

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Leads operations for public and private cloud infrastructure, ensuring services remain secure, resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and consistently managed. This working manager role requires cloud architect-level judgment and hands‑on capability across hybrid architecture, landing zones, identity, networking, compute, storage, security, data protection, automation, and recovery.

· Manage and develop engineers responsible for public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating systems, and related infrastructure services.

· Mature hybrid cloud operations strategy, service catalog, reference architectures, landing‑zone standards, support model, capacity plan, lifecycle roadmap, and improvement backlog.

· Oversee day‑to‑day service health, incident response, problem management, change execution, patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration, capacity, backup, recovery, and operational readiness.

· Provide hands‑on architecture review and escalation support for complex cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating system, identity, network, automation, security, and recovery issues.

· Ensure cloud and infrastructure services meet availability, performance, security, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery requirements.

· Implement consistent landing‑zone, identity, network, tagging, policy, logging, monitoring, backup, and configuration standards across public and private cloud estates.

· Serve as the cloud architecture authority for workload placement, platform guardrails, resilience, connectivity, identity integration, cost optimization, and production readiness.

· Drive infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, self‑service provisioning, configuration compliance, and standardized hybrid cloud deployment patterns.

· Define and report service‑level objectives, reliability indicators, capacity trends, risk, technical debt, asset lifecycle, cloud consumption, and unit‑cost metrics.

· Lead major incident response and root‑cause analysis for infrastructure events, ensuring corrective actions are assigned, tracked, and validated.

· Partner across teams to deliver secure, supportable, cost‑effective cloud infrastructure solutions.

· Manage strategic vendors, managed service providers, licensing, contracts, budgets, forecasts, and optimization commitments.

· Maintain tested recovery plans, operational documentation, runbooks, escalation paths, and audit‑ready evidence.

· Strong people leadership and operational management skills, including prioritization, performance management, service ownership, and executive communication.

· Cloud architect‑level understanding of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualization;
Windows and Linux; compute, storage, backup,…