Senior Director – Cloud and Infrastructure Platforms

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the enterprise reference architecture for cloud platforms, networking, databases, and compute services, including the design of target-state for hybrid infrastructure, landing zones, subscription and management group strategy, tenant governance, platform segmentation, identity integration, and operational guardrails.

• Spearhead the technical architecture and migration engineering strategy for transitioning from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms, involving application and infrastructure dependency mapping, workload suitability analysis, migration wave design, refactoring decision frameworks, cutover architecture, rollback strategy, and post-migration stabilization.

• Act as the senior design authority for enterprise compute across virtual environments, with responsibility for compute topology, virtualization standards, guest operating system strategy, performance engineering, resiliency design, high availability patterns, and lifecycle modernization.

• Establish and govern enterprise networking architecture standards across WAN, LAN, wireless, cloud, and data center environments, including network segmentation, routing strategy, connectivity patterns, resiliency design, performance optimization, and integration with security controls.

• Provide architectural and operational stewardship for Azure and related Microsoft tenant services, ensuring secure configuration, scalable service design, platform policy enforcement, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

• Develop enterprise database architecture and engineering standards for Oracle & SQL Server, Azure database platforms, and associated database services, including availability design, performance optimization, lifecycle management, backup and recovery strategies, data platform modernization, and operational governance.

• Define engineering standards for infrastructure as code, automation, image management, configuration baselines, drift control, and repeatable platform deployments across cloud and virtualized environments.

• Lead enterprise vulnerability management, patch engineering, and operating system currency programs for all compute assets, including patch orchestration strategies, exception governance, remediation prioritization, unsupported OS retirement planning, and measurable reduction of platform risk exposure.

• Establish hardening patterns, privileged access architecture, monitoring telemetry requirements, logging standards, recovery controls, and platform security baselines in collaboration with cybersecurity and risk teams.

• Provide technical oversight for core infrastructure services including networking, directory services, storage platforms, database environments, backup and recovery architecture, capacity forecasting, and platform observability.

• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex platform issues involving Azure infrastructure, Microsoft tenant services, enterprise networking, database platforms, virtualized compute, platform incidents, systemic defects, and engineering tradeoff decisions.

• Oversee relationships with Microsoft and other strategic infrastructure technology partners from both an architectural and commercial perspective, including roadmap alignment, support escalation, technical design reviews, licensing implications, and coordination for major platform initiatives.

• Drive platform rationalization and standardization efforts, reducing technical debt, minimizing platform sprawl, and enhancing consistency across infrastructure services, operating system versions, database platforms, management tooling, network architectures, and cloud service consumption patterns.

• Define and report on engineering and control metrics such as migration velocity, workload stability, compute availability, network reliability, database performance, policy compliance, patch adherence, vulnerability aging, operating system currency, automation coverage, and mean time to recover.

⛳️ Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, platform operations, networking, database services, or enterprise infrastructure leadership, with accountability for large-scale production environments.

• A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field is preferred; an advanced degree and certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, CCNP, CISSP, Microsoft Certified Database certifications, or similar credentials are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and certifications.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.