Hybrid Infrastructure Architect Governance Lead

Job Summary The Hybrid Infrastructure Architect Governance Lead provides strategic leadership, governance, architecture, and Level 3 / Level 4 technical support across the organization's hybrid infrastructure landscape, including Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware, and on-premises datacenter environments.

The role ensures that cloud and on-premises infrastructure are secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective while driving governance, architecture, cloud financial management (FinOps), security, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. The position works closely with Infrastructure Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Application teams, and managed service providers to define technology standards, oversee solution architecture, optimize operational performance, and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Your Responsibilities

- Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure governance, architecture standards, policies, and best practices across Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware, and on-premises environments.

- Design and approve secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions for new and existing workloads.

- Establish and govern Azure Landing Zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, and enterprise cloud operating standards.

- Develop OCI governance frameworks and review architecture designs across networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, high availability, and disaster recovery.

- Own the architecture and technical governance of VMware, VxRail, Hyper-V, and core datacenter platforms.

- Define standards for virtualization, compute, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery.

- Lead datacenter modernization, hardware refresh, capacity planning, performance management,



and infrastructure lifecycle roadmaps.

- Provide Level 3/Level 4 technical escalation support for complex cloud, OCI, and datacenter infrastructure incidents.

- Coordinate with Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, managed service providers, and other vendors during critical technical incidents and service issues.

- Lead cloud FinOps initiatives across Azure and OCI, including cost visibility, forecasting, budgeting, rightsizing, tagging, reserved capacity, and showback/chargeback models.

- Build and maintain reporting dashboards to monitor cloud consumption, financial performance, capacity, and optimization opportunities.

- Define and govern enterprise cloud security architecture aligned with Zero Trust principles.

- Oversee security services including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, and OCI security capabilities.

- Govern identity and access management, privileged access, MFA, conditional access, endpoint security, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security posture.

- Partner with Security Operations, Finance, application teams, and business stakeholders to improve security, operational resilience, and cost efficiency.

- Lead Architecture Review Board discussions and maintain enterprise reference architectures and technical documentation.

- Review managed service provider deliverables to ensure compliance with architecture, security, operational, and documentation standards.

- Drive automation,



infrastructure-as-code, operational standardization, and continuous improvement across cloud and on-premises platforms.

- Ensure all infrastructure services meet enterprise security, compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery, and audit requirements.

You bring

Technical Skills

- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

- Virtualization Datacenter: VMware vSphere VMware vCenter VMware ESXi Dell VxRail Hyper-V SAN / NAS Storage Backup Recovery Platforms Disaster Recovery Solutions

- Infrastructure: Windows Server Linux Active Directory Microsoft Entra ID DNS / DHCP Enterprise Networking Load Balancers Firewalls

- Security: Microsoft Defender Suite Microsoft Sentinel Azure Policy Defender for Cloud Endpoint Security Vulnerability Management Zero Trust Architecture Identity Access Management

- FinOps: Azure Cost Management OCI Cost Analysis Cost Optimization Budget Forecasting Chargeback / Showback Resource Tagging

- Automation: PowerShell Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Azure Automation Scripting

- 18+ years of Infrastructure and Cloud experience.

- 10+ years designing enterprise Azure environments.

- 10+ years working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

- Robust VMware and enterprise datacenter architecture experience.

- Experience designing hybrid cloud solutions.

- Strong background in cloud governance, infrastructure governance, and security.

- Experience leading managed service providers and global infrastructure operations.

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