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

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Lead infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering teams supporting large-scale SaaS environments.

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Define and execute infrastructure and cloud strategy aligned with product and business growth.

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Architect and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure platforms.

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Drive AWS cloud architecture and hybrid-cloud environments.

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Lead VMware-based virtualization and integration with cloud infrastructure.

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Own infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering initiatives.

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Improve reliability, scalability, performance,



availability, and operational efficiency.

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Lead architecture and engineering decisions across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and distributed systems.

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Establish automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.

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Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms and reduce manual operational dependencies.

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Partner closely with application/product engineering, security, DevOps, SRE, and other technical teams.

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Build engineering standards around monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

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Mentor and develop senior engineering managers and infrastructure engineers.

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Identify opportunities to use AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational processes.

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Champion responsible adoption of AI-powered engineering tools across infrastructure and platform teams.

Mandatory Requirements

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18+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related areas.

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5+ years of engineering leadership experience at Director level or equivalent,



managing infrastructure/cloud/platform engineering teams.

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Strong experience working within SaaS / cloud software / technology product companies.

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Deep expertise with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.

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Strong experience with VMware and hybrid-cloud architectures.

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Robust understanding of:

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Networking

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Virtualization

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Compute

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Storage

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Distributed systems

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High availability

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Scalability

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Disaster recovery

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Proven experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.

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Experience operating infrastructure platforms supporting large-scale SaaS products/environments.

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Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, performance, security, and operational excellence.

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Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a force multiplier for engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

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Ability to advocate and drive adoption of AI tools across engineering teams.

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Strong communication, stakeholder management, architecture, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Experience

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AWS infrastructure at significant scale.

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Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.

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Kubernetes/containerized infrastructure.

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CI/CD and DevOps/SRE practices.

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Observability and monitoring platforms.

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Multi-region / highly available SaaS infrastructure.

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Cloud migration and hybrid-cloud transformation.

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Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical SaaS platforms.

📌 Director Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering (Madhavaram)
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📍 Madhavaram