Cloud and Identity Manager

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
The Manager, Cloud & Identity is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and governance of the organization’s Azure cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on cost management (Fin Ops), automation, and scalable cloud operations. This role leads the evolution of Azure as a self-service, secure, and cost-efficient platform, enabling application teams to rapidly consume cloud resources while maintaining enterprise controls. Identity services across Active Directory, Entra , and Silverfort serve as foundational capabilities that enable secure cloud access, automation, and Zero Trust enforcement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITES:

Azure Cloud Platform Management (Primary Focus)

• Own day-to-day operations and strategic improvement of enterprise Azure environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Lead Azure platform architecture, including landing zones, networking, shared services, and management group design.
• Establish and enforce Azure governance standards, including RBAC, Azure Policy, tagging, naming conventions, and security baselines.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to enable cloud migrations, refactoring, and modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for Azure platform incidents, driving root cause analysis and preventive improvements.

Cloud Financial Management (Fin Ops)

• Lead Azure Fin Ops practices, ensuring cloud spend transparency, accountability, and optimization.
• Define and enforce cost allocation models, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback mechanisms.
• Monitor Azure consumption and spend, proactively identifying opportunities for:
  • Rightsizing
  • Reserved Instances / Savings Plans
  • Storage and data lifecycle optimization
  • Idle and orphaned resource cleanup
• Partner with finance and business stakeholders to forecast cloud costs and align budgets to business demand.
• Produce regular cloud cost and optimization reports for leadership.

Cloud Automation & Self-Service Enablement

• Drive automation-first cloud operations, reducing manual effort and increasing deployment consistency.
• Lead development of standardized, reusable Azure blueprints/modules using:
  • Bicep / ARM templates
  • Power Shell
  • Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions
• Enable self-service resource provisioning for application teams through approved templates and pipelines.
• Establish guardrails to ensure self-service deployments remain secure, compliant, and cost-controlled.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git Ops practices across cloud teams.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Define and manage cloud operational KPIs, including availability, performance, cost efficiency, and deployment success rates.
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and health dashboards using Azure-native tools.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on:
  • Reducing incidents
  • Improving mean time to resolution (MTTR)
  • Increasing automation coverage
• Ensure backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency patterns are implemented and tested across Azure workloads.
• Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.

Identity & Access Management (Supporting Focus)

• Oversee enterprise identity services across Active Directory, Entra , and hybrid identity.
• Ensure stable operation of Conditional Access, MFA, directory synchronization, and identity lifecycle processes.
• Support Silverfort-based identity protection, adaptive authentication, and access control enforcement.
• Ensure identity services align with cloud automation, RBAC, and Zero Trust architecture.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams on identity risk management and response.

M&A Cloud & Identity Integration

• Support cloud and identity onboarding during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Participate in discovery and assessment of acquired Azure environments, AD forests, and identity posture.
• Execute standardized onboarding into enterprise Azure landing zones and identity services.
• Apply established integration playbooks to ensure secure, consistent cloud adoption.

People & Vendor Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of cloud and identity engineers.
• Define priorities, manage capacity, and ensure…