Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud

Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud Description – Reports To VP, Employee & Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)

HP is seeking a strategic, execution-oriented Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud & Fin Ops to lead modernization, operational excellence, financial governance, and lifecycle management of enterprise infrastructure platforms and services. The role drives enterprise-wide infrastructure strategy across on‑premises data centers, public cloud platforms, hosting environments, core infrastructure engineering, and cloud financial operations (Fin Ops). The Sr. Director leads globally distributed teams responsible for infrastructure reliability, scalability, automation, optimization, and operational efficiency while ensuring alignment with technology priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and financial targets.

• 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 Fin Ops 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, Fin Ops, 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…