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

- 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.

Mandatory Requirements
- 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.

- Solid 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.

Preferred Experience

- 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.

Skills: teams,automation,aws,virtualization,leadership,saas,cloud,infrastructure,architecture,platforms

📌 Director – Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 Umanist NA
📍 Hyderabad