Cloud Platform Development Director

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and drive the engineering, delivery, and optimization of secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services while building a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The role ensures alignment of platform strategies with business objectives, leveraging AI and automation to streamline operations and simplify day-to-day tasks.

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of cloud engineers to deliver best-in-class cloud solutions using DevOps and Agile methodologies while fostering continuous professional growth and innovation.
• Guide the team in designing and delivering cloud capabilities that are cost-efficient, user-friendly, secure, and compliant with organizational requirements.
• Work closely with cloud architects to continually enhance the platform's security, compliance, and governance processes and drive improvements to ensure adherence to organizational standards.
• Explore and implement AI-driven solutions to simplify and enhance day-to-day engineering and operational responsibilities and drive efficiency and scalability across the cloud platform.
• Proactively collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify and implement necessary controls and guardrails on the cloud platform to ensure it remains secure, compliant, and audit-ready.
• Drive innovation by exploring, piloting, and implementing new solutions that simplify cloud deployments and improve customer experience.
• Ensure strong documentation practices for all solutions developed and implemented by the cloud engineering team.
• Maintain and oversee compliance to organizational cloud security, governance, and audit standards in all aspects of engineering work.
• Build and maintain a highly skilled and diverse cloud engineering team by driving the hiring process and encouraging an environment of continuous development.
• Participate in performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and assist in creating individualized development plans to promote career growth.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• MS-Azure Certification(s) and DevOps & AI Certification(s).
• 10+ years of experience working in IT infrastructure domain, delivering infrastructure and platform services across geographic and business boundaries.
• Minimum 5+ years experience working in MS-Azure Cloud Administration, IaC Implementations following Agile/DevOps methodologies in large enterprises.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Networking, Landing Zone Concepts, Azure Policies, App Services, Microsoft Entra.
• Proficiency in Azure AI, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Services.
• Experienced in DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring solutions.
• Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts for infrastructure.
• Familiar with agile methodologies and comfortable with working as part of an agile team.
• Excellent skills in collaborating with business users, Operationalizing the delivered products, working closely with Security for implementing compliance.

• Deliver a stable, secure, compliant, and cost-efficient platform engineering environment, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Enhance responsiveness and recovery speed in addressing critical business incidents and issues.
• Build learning agility by rapidly evaluating and implementing new services and capabilities at scale.
• Drive productivity improvements and reduce defects through ongoing process enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Enable automation-led, programmable infrastructure and platform services to streamline operations and increase efficiency.
• Establish a strong technical vision with a clear strategy and ensure consistent execution of plans.