Vice President - Cloud Operations

Role Overview :

Seasoned Engineering Leader with 18+ years of expertise in infrastructure, cloud engineering, and platform operations across product SaaS companies. Proven track record of building and scaling infrastructure teams, driving hybrid cloud transformations, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate productivity and reliability in large-scale SaaS environments.

Core Competencies :

- Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership: 5+ years as Director, managing infrastructure teams and aligning strategy with business goals.

- Hybrid Cloud Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with AWS services, VMware, and hybrid cloud architectures.

- Distributed Systems & Networking: Strong foundation in virtualization, storage, networking, and distributed systems.

- Automation & IaC: Skilled in implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and driving automation at scale.

- SaaS Scale Operations: Demonstrated success operating infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical SaaS environments with thousands of global customers.

- AI Adoption: Advocate and practitioner of AI-driven engineering productivity, integrating AI tools as force multipliers for infrastructure teams.

Career Highlights :

- Directed infrastructure strategy for a global SaaS platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance across hybrid cloud environments.

- Spearheaded VMware + AWS hybrid deployments, optimizing cost efficiency and performance.

- Built and mentored high-performing infrastructure teams, fostering leadership pipelines and cross-functional collaboration.

- Implemented IaC frameworks that reduced deployment times by 40% and improved reliability across distributed systems.

- Championed AI-assisted operations, boosting team productivity and accelerating incident resolution.

Skills

Cloud Operations, AWS, VMware, IAC Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, SaaS, IT Infrastructure, IT Head, DevOps