Senior Director Cloud and Infrastructure Platforms

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About The Position

The Senior Director Cloud and Infrastructure Platforms owns the technical direction of enterprise infrastructure platform architecture across cloud, data center, networking, database, and compute domains. The role establishes target-state architecture, engineering standards, migration patterns, operational controls, and a modernization roadmap for the company’s hybrid infrastructure ecosystem. Its scope includes Azure infrastructure, enterprise networking, database services, virtualized compute estates, and the architectural control planes needed to operate them at scale. Working closely with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, application teams, service operations, vendors, and executive leadership, the role ensures infrastructure platforms remain secure, resilient, supportable, cost-effective, and aligned with long-term business strategy. It serves as the senior design authority and escalation point for infrastructure platforms, while leading teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and advancing enterprise-wide adoption of architecture standards.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, platform operations, networking, database services, or enterprise infrastructure leadership, including responsibility for large-scale production environments.
Demonstrated success designing and leading complex migrations from on-premises infrastructure to cloud or hybrid platforms, including architecture definition, dependency analysis, migration engineering governance, and operational transition.
Deep technical expertise in Azure infrastructure services, Microsoft tenant governance, identity and access integration, virtual infrastructure, enterprise networking, Windows and Linux server architecture, database platforms, and vulnerability remediation.
Strong command of cloud landing zone design, WAN and LAN architecture, wireless networking, cloud networking patterns, network security integration, infrastructure automation, configuration management, observability, and resilience engineering.
Experience architecting and governing enterprise database platforms, including high-availability designs, disaster recovery, performance optimization, operational controls, and modernization initiatives.
Experience establishing platform standards for infrastructure as code, automation pipelines, policy enforcement, system hardening, operational engineering controls, and infrastructure governance across distributed environments.
Proven ability to serve as the highest-level technical authority for infrastructure platforms while leading teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving enterprise-wide adoption of architecture standards.
Experience managing strategic vendor relationships, especially with Microsoft and key infrastructure partners, including executive engagement, support escalation, product roadmap alignment, and technical-commercial decision support.
Strong understanding of risk management, cybersecurity principles, operational governance, compliance expectations, and audit-defensible infrastructure controls.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
An advanced degree is a plus.
Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, CCNP, CISSP, Microsoft Certified Database certifications, or similar credentials are a plus.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise reference architecture for cloud platform, networking, database, and compute services, including hybrid infrastructure target-state design, landing zones, subscription and management group strategy, tenant governance, platform segmentation, identity integration, and operational guardrails.
Lead technical architecture and migration engineering strategy for moving from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms, including dependency mapping, workload suitability analysis, migration wave design, refactoring decision frameworks, cutover architecture, rollback strategy, and post-migration stabilization.
Serve as senior design authority for enterprise compute across virtual environments, covering compute topology, virtualization standards, guest operating system strategy, performance engineering, resiliency, high availability, and lifecycle modernization.
Define and govern enterprise networking architecture standards across WAN, LAN, wireless, cloud, and data center environments, including segmentation, routing, connectivity, resiliency, performance optimization, and security integration.
Provide architectural and operational ownership for Azure and related Microsoft tenant services, ensuring secure configuration, scalable service design, platform policy enforcement, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Establish enterprise database architecture and engineering standards for Oracle, SQL Server, Azure database platforms, and related services, including availability, performance, lifecycle management, backup and recovery, modernization, and operational governance.
Define engineering standards for infrastructure as code, automation, image management, configuration baselines, drift control, and repeatable platform deployments across cloud and virtualized environments.
Lead enterprise vulnerability management, patch engineering, and operating system currency programs across compute assets, including patch orchestration, exception governance, remediation prioritization, unsupported OS retirement planning, and measurable risk reduction.
Establish hardening patterns, privileged access architecture, monitoring telemetry requirements, logging standards, recovery controls, and platform security baselines with cybersecurity and risk teams.
Provide technical oversight for core infrastructure services, including networking, directory services, storage, databases, backup and recovery architecture, capacity forecasting, and platform observability.
Act as the senior escalation point for complex platform issues involving Azure infrastructure, Microsoft tenant services, enterprise networking, database platforms, virtualized compute, platform incidents, systemic defects, and engineering tradeoffs.
Oversee Microsoft and other strategic infrastructure technology partners from architectural and commercial perspectives, including roadmap alignment, support escalation, technical design reviews, licensing implications, and coordination of major initiatives.
Drive platform rationalization and standardization to reduce technical debt and platform sprawl and improve consistency across infrastructure services, operating system versions, database platforms, management tooling, network architectures, and cloud consumption patterns.
Define and report engineering and control metrics, including migration velocity, workload stability, compute availability, network reliability, database performance, policy compliance, patch adherence, vulnerability aging, operating system currency, automation coverage, and mean time to recover.