About the Role

Designation - VP-IT-Cloud Management Location - Pune Experience - 15 years

Responsibilities

- Cloud Strategy & Leadership

Define and execute enterprise cloud strategy aligned with business objectives.

Lead cloud transformation initiatives, including migration of applications, infrastructure, and data to AWS.

Establish governance frameworks, operating models, and cloud adoption standards.

Drive innovation through adoption of emerging AWS services and cloud-native architectures.

Collaborate with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams.

- AWS Architecture & Engineering

Design and oversee enterprise-scale AWS environments.

Lead cloud architecture reviews and approve solution designs.

Define standards for

- Multi-account AWS environments
- Landing zones
- Network architecture
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Containerized and serverless architectures

- AWS Services Expertise

Must demonstrate extensive knowledge and practical experience across AWS services including

- Compute
- EC2
- Auto Scaling
- Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB)
- Lambda
- ECS
- EKS
- Fargate
- Batch
- - Storage
- S3
- EFS
- FSx
- Glacier
- Storage Gateway
- - Database & Analytics
- RDS
- Aurora
- DynamoDB
- Redshift
- ElasticCache
- Athena
- EMR
- - Networking
- VPC
- Transit Gateway
- Direct Connect
- Route 53
- CloudFront
- Global Accelerator
- VPN Services
- - Security & Identity
- IAM
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower
- KMS
- Secrets Manager
- Security Hub
- GuardDuty
- Inspector
- Macie
- WAF
- Shield




- - Observability & Operations
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- Systems Manager
- AWS Config
- Trusted Advisor
- EventBridge
- - DevOps & Automation
- CloudFormation
- CDK
- CodePipeline
- CodeBuild
- CodeDeploy
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins

- - Cloud Security & Risk Management

Ensure adherence to security, privacy, and compliance requirements.

Implement Zero Trust principles within cloud platforms.

Oversee

- Security architecture reviews
- Vulnerability management
- Cloud security posture management
- Penetration testing remediation
- Incident response

- Financial Management (FinOps)

Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Establish chargeback/showback models.

Monitor AWS spend and utilization.

Optimize reserved instances, savings plans, and resource consumption.

- Operations & Reliability

Ensure 24x7 availability of cloud services.

Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and cloud operations teams.

Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs.

Establish disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.

- Team Leadership

Build and lead high-performing cloud engineering teams.

Mentor architects, engineers, and operations managers.

Manage vendors, cloud partners, and third-party service providers.

Required Skills

Technical Expertise

Expert-level AWS architecture and operations experience.

Robust understanding of

- Cloud-native architecture
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- Serverless computing
- DevOps and CI/CD
- Enterprise networking
- IAM and cybersecurity controls
- Infrastructure as Code

📌 VP-IT- Cloud Management (Pune)
🏢 CRIF India
📍 Pune