HYDERABAD · FULLTIME
Director Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering
Umanist NA
Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 5d ago
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About this role
Job Title: Director – Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering
Location: Hyderabad
Experience: 18+ Years
Leadership Experience: 5+ Years in Director-level Engineering Leadership
Industry: SaaS / B2B Software / Cloud Product Company
Important Candidate Requirement
Candidates must have significant experience working for SaaS, cloud software, or technology product companies.
Role Overview
We are looking for a senior Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering leader to own and scale infrastructure platforms supporting a large-scale SaaS product environment.
The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, AWS, VMware, hybrid cloud architectures, infrastructure automation, networking, virtualization, storage, and distributed systems, combined with strong engineering leadership experience.
This is a senior technical leadership position requiring experience building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure for a product/SaaS business, not a services delivery environment.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Hyderabad
Experience: 18+ Years
Leadership Experience: 5+ Years in Director-level Engineering Leadership
Industry: SaaS / B2B Software / Cloud Product Company
Important Candidate Requirement
Candidates must have significant experience working for SaaS, cloud software, or technology product companies.
Role Overview
We are looking for a senior Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering leader to own and scale infrastructure platforms supporting a large-scale SaaS product environment.
The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, AWS, VMware, hybrid cloud architectures, infrastructure automation, networking, virtualization, storage, and distributed systems, combined with strong engineering leadership experience.
This is a senior technical leadership position requiring experience building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure for a product/SaaS business, not a services delivery environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering teams supporting large-scale SaaS environments.
- Define and execute infrastructure and cloud strategy aligned with product and business growth.
- Architect and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure platforms.
- Drive AWS cloud architecture and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Lead VMware-based virtualization and integration with cloud infrastructure.
- Own infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
- Lead architecture and engineering decisions across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and distributed systems.
- Establish automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms and reduce manual operational dependencies.
- Partner closely with application/product engineering, security, DevOps, SRE, and other technical teams.
- Build engineering standards around monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Mentor and develop senior engineering managers and infrastructure engineers.
- Identify opportunities to use AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational processes.
- Champion responsible adoption of AI-powered engineering tools across infrastructure and platform teams.
- 18+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related areas.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience at Director level or equivalent, managing infrastructure/cloud/platform engineering teams.
- Strong experience working within SaaS / cloud software / technology product companies.
- Deep expertise with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong experience with VMware and hybrid-cloud architectures.
- Strong understanding of:
- Networking
- Virtualization
- Compute
- Storage
- Distributed systems
- High availability
- Scalability
- Disaster recovery
- Proven experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
- Experience operating infrastructure platforms supporting large-scale SaaS products/environments.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a force multiplier for engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
- Ability to advocate and drive adoption of AI tools across engineering teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, architecture, and technical leadership skills.
- AWS infrastructure at significant scale.
- Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Kubernetes/containerized infrastructure.
- CI/CD and DevOps/SRE practices.
- Observability and monitoring platforms.
- Multi-region / highly available SaaS infrastructure.
- Cloud migration and hybrid-cloud transformation.
- Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical SaaS platforms.
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Skills
observabilityDevopsTerraformKubernetesHybrid-cloud transformationVMwareDistributed SystemsDisaster recoveryhigh availabilityamazon web servicesinfrastructure as codesrescalabilityInfrastructure AutomationStoragecomputeVirtualizationComputer Networksmonitoring platformsHybrid cloud architecturescontainerized infrastructureCloud MigrationCi/Cd