• Responsible for defining, implementing, and managing the organization’s enterprise technology infrastructure strategy, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, resilience, and performance of technology platforms supporting the insurance business.
• Work along with the CTO for a multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business growth, digital transformation, cybersecurity, regulatory, and resilience objectives.
• Specific skills around OCI and Azure cloud for workload transformation, network modernization, platform engineering, disaster recovery, infrastructure automation, and cloud cost governance.
• Establish infrastructure architecture principles, governance standards, technology policies, operating models, and lifecycle management practices.
• Drive infrastructure modernization, simplification, standardization, automation, and reduction of technical debt.
• Own infrastructure budgets, capacity planning, strategic sourcing, vendor relationships, licensing, and technology investments.
• Establish measurable infrastructure KPIs covering availability, reliability, performance, security, cost efficiency, automation, and service quality.
• Drive infrastructure automation across provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, backup, compliance,



and remediation.
• Own and conduct regular assessments and audits of infrastructure to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of CSP frameworks and standards, such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001:2017, and CSA Cloud Controls Matrix.
• Solid Understanding of cloud security tools and technologies, such as identity and access management (IAM), encryption, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, Zero Trust etc.
• Collaborate with teams to enable CI/CD, DevSecOps, Cloud-native architecture, and platform engineering.
• Ensure infrastructure architecture and operations comply with applicable IRDAI requirements, cybersecurity frameworks, information security standards, internal risk policies, and audit requirements.
• Establish governance for outsourced and managed infrastructure services to ensure accountability and service performance.
• Build and lead high-performing teams covering infrastructure, cloud engineering, database infrastructure, network, platform engineering, automation, DevOps, workplace technologies, and AI infrastructure.

📌 Head - IT Infrastructure (Mumbai)
🏢 Magma General Insurance
📍 Mumbai