The Infrastructure Director leads the strategic planning, implementation, and management of enterprise-wide IT infrastructure. This includes overseeing cloud platforms, data centers, networks, storage, and security systems to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance. The role demands a visionary leader who can align infrastructure capabilities with business goals while driving innovation and operational excellence.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee daily operations of IT infrastructure including servers, storage, backup, network and M365.
- Ensure 24x7 operational readiness and incident response capabilities.
- Implement and maintain monitoring tools for proactive issue resolution.
- Ensure infrastructure services meet defined SLAs and KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement in service delivery and operational efficiency.
- Manage internal teams and external vendors to optimize resource allocation.
- Collaborate with security teams to enforce infrastructure security policies.
- Ensure compliance with ISO/IEC standards and data protection regulations.
Requirements
- Overall 15+ years of experience in IT Industry and Services.
- A minimum of 10+ years of technical Delivery and Implementation or technical consulting experience.
- Proven experience as an Azure Cloud Architect/Implementation Engineer or in a similar role, and large scale cloud migration projects (1000+ VMs).
- Knowledge in cloud architecture design principles, including scalability, availability, and security.
- Proven experience with Containerization solutions Implementation and Design including K8S, AKS, EKS, etc.
- Strong leadership and team-building capabilities.
