Title: Director of Cloud Platform Engineering Job Summary The Director of Cloud Platform Engineering will lead the architecture, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms supporting critical business and digital applications. This leader will be responsible for building scalable, resilient, secure, and highly automated cloud capabilities, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with multinational/tenant exposure. This is a hands-on technology leadership role requiring deep experience architecting cloud platforms for a large enterprise. The Director will establish cloud architecture and engineering standards, build reusable platform capabilities, and enable application teams to deploy and operate workloads efficiently on a scale. Responsibilities and Duties
• Lead the architecture, engineering, and evolution of the enterprise cloud platform, with a strong focus on GCP.
• Define current-state and target-state cloud architecture and develop multi-year roadmaps to achieve the target state.
• Build scalable platform capabilities that can support multiple business domains and application development teams.
• Establish enterprise standards and patterns for compute, networking, storage, containers, Kubernetes, APIs, security, observability, and cloud-native services.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automation using technologies such as Terraform, along with modern CI/CD practices.
• Build self-service platform capabilities and standardized deployment patterns that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead.
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Networking, SRE, Application Development, Data, and other technology teams.
• Ensure cloud platforms meet enterprise requirements for availability, resiliency, scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery.
• Establish cloud governance, including IAM, security controls, policy enforcement, standards, and compliance.




• Own cloud capacity planning and FinOps practices, including cost visibility, optimization, forecasting, and TCO.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and determine where they can provide meaningful business or engineering value.
• Lead complex cloud migrations and modernization initiatives from traditional infrastructure to cloud-native architectures.
• Establish engineering standards and architecture guardrails while enabling application teams to move quickly.
• Build and develop a high-performing Cloud Platform Engineering organization in Bangalore.
• Develop Principal Engineers, architects, engineering managers, and engineers while creating a strong engineering culture.
• Partner with U.
S. technology leadership to ensure the Bangalore organization operates as an integrated global engineering team rather than a support organization.
• Communicate cloud strategy, architecture decisions, risks, investments, and progress effectively to senior technology leadership. Required Qualifications
• Bachelor / Master's degree with equivalent experience
• 15+ years of technology experience, including significant experience in infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years of leadership experience building or leading enterprise cloud/platform engineering organizations.
• Proven experience architecting and operating cloud platforms at scale within a large enterprise.
• Deep hands-on understanding of Google Cloud Platform. Experience with Azure or other major public cloud platforms is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, IAM, security, compute,



storage, Kubernetes, containers, observability, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Terraform.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and modern developer platform capabilities.
• Experience establishing enterprise cloud standards, architecture patterns, governance, and security controls.
• Experience with cloud cost management, FinOps, capacity planning, and TCO analysis.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy infrastructure and applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, although this role is primarily focused on cloud architecture and platform engineering rather than production support or SRE operations.
• Proven ability to influence architecture and technology decisions across multiple engineering organizations.
• Experience building and developing engineering teams in a global enterprise environment.
• Solid executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building an Internal Developer Platform or enterprise developer platform.
• Experience with GKE/Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Apigee, Kafka, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing enterprise observability using OpenTelemetry and modern monitoring platforms.
• Experience supporting high-volume digital or retail platforms.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent certification. . Role Emphasis The ideal candidate will have personally led or played a significant architecture role in designing and building enterprise cloud platforms at scale. While SRE and production operations experience is valuable, the primary focus of this role is cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, governance, and enabling engineering teams through reusable enterprise platform capabilities.

📌 Director of Cloud Platform Engineering (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru