Director – Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

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.

• Strong 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.