Urgent opening for Head Cloud Infra

Job Description

Dear Candidates,Greeting of the day!We have an urgent opening forHead Cloud InfraJob Purpose: Head Cloud Infra is responsible to lead the design, implementation, and management of cloud systems for the consumer finance business in order to improve scalability, efficiency, flexibility and security.Dimensions: Business Workforce NumberUnit Workforce NumberFunction Workforce NumberDepartment Workforce Number3Other Quantitative and Important Parameters for the job: Budgets/ Volumes/No. of Products/Geography/ Markets/ Customers or any other parameterBudgets-2 CrNo. of projects-2 Large AutomationsVolume of Infrastructure being maintained-2 Virtual Pvt CloudsGeography-IndiaCustomers- Load Balanced infra for ~20,000 hits/ secJob Context & Major Challenges:Head of Infrastructure will be responsible to build the infrastructure in cloud for a scalable, flexible, secure and agile system.Challenges of the role:-

• Manage hybrid on data services
• Keep up with info security changes almost of daily basis
• Manage up-time of more than 99.99%
• Reduction of costs year on year

Key Result Areas: Key Result Areas Supporting Actions

• Requirement Gathering- Understand business requirements to deliver right cloud solutions

• Ensure that there is a thorough understanding of product cloud deployments
• Propose Cloud designs for new clients and new offerings
• Provide design analysis and cost estimation to support sales efforts
• Take a sign off from product team on the requirement specifications
• Develop the strategic roadmap for all next generation service infrastructures

• Cloud Infra Design -Design cloud infra solutions to meet requirements

• Ensure design of cloud solution, technical review and technical documentation
• Review and approve Cloud architecture
• Define the roadmap, step by step breakdown for implementation of the finalized design
• Design, implement, and manage highly scalable operating practices and deployment strategies
• Collaborate with software engineering to define and develop DevOps processes to scale with Consumer Business ever-growing operations
• Undertake Innovation and new technologies design and PoC

• Product team -Manage relationship with business to ensure client satisfaction

• Interact with the clients/product team and provide them regular progress updates
• Provide progress update on various projects and suggestions on improvements to Management
• Manage Containerization of the infrastructure
• Manage deployments of systems
• Do Cost Management of existing cloud infrastructure

• ProjectManagement/Implementation-Ensure quality & timelines are adhered to for all projects

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously with variable team size
• Develop detailed Project plans
• Monitor adherence to plans to ensure timeliness of projects
• Guide the team technically to deliver timely and quality output
• Adhere to company and project standards and guidelines

• Infrastructure Managed Services-Effectively manage Infrastructure managed services to provide stability

• Ensure the availability and accessibility of mission critical software/services & systems
• Ensure the management of the daily operations of the consumer finance business cloud infrastructure
• Maintain infrastructure through reusable code and tooling
• Use metrics and monitoring systems to ensure performance, scalability, and stability
• Interact with other teams to ensure the uptime and reliability of infrastructure, improve integration & release process

• Process & Knowledge improvement -Contribute to the company knowledge base and process improvements.

• Work with the processes and tools to ensure best practices are adhered to on every project
• Put in place knowledge management processes
• Expand, maintain & establish new best practices for infrastructure management
• Create and maintain tools to help automate provisioning and upkeep of AWS resources

• Team Management Recruit, train, & motivating team members

• Build capability in ABC for cloud deployment
• Mentor junior team members and conduct periodical trainings to meet the market standards
• Guide the team technically to deliver timely and quality output
• Conduct & ensure regular performance reviews and feedback
• Keep the team motivated

• Vendor Management-Effectively manage vendors to get the desired output/service from them

• Identify & work with high quality & reliable vendors
• Monitor & manage performance of vendors as per the performance metrics defined
• Manage relationships with 3rd party infrastructure and security partners

Job Purpose of Direct Reports:

• Cloud Engineer is responsible for managing & supporting infrastructures along with monitoring operations to ensure smooth operations
• Deployment Lead is responsible for deploying applications on the infrastructure requirement for Devops to ensure friction less deployments of new systems

Keyskills :
hybrid cloudcost managementknowledge managementmanaged servicesdesign analysisarchitectureproject plansdata servicessoftware engineeringcloudtechnical documentationinfrastructurebusiness requirementsagiledevopsdeployment strategiesengineer