Vice President - IT Cloud Management

About the Role

CRIF India is looking for a Vice President - IT Cloud Management to be based in Pune. The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of experience managing cloud environments, primarily on AWS, to drive enterprise cloud strategies and lead cloud transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an enterprise-wide cloud strategy that aligns with business goals.
• Spearhead migration of applications, infrastructure, and data to AWS cloud platforms.
• Establish governance frameworks, operational models, and adoption standards for cloud technologies.
• Promote innovation by integrating emerging AWS services and cloud-native architecture principles.
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, business units, and IT teams.
• Architect and oversee large-scale AWS environments ensuring scalability and security.
• Lead architectural reviews and approve cloud solution designs across multi-account AWS setups.
• Set standards relating to landing zones, network topology, high availability, disaster recovery, Infrastructure as Code, containerized and serverless architectures.
• Demonstrate extensive hands-on experience with a wide range of AWS services including compute (EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch), storage (S3, EFS, FSx, Glacier, Storage Gateway), databases and analytics (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, ElasticCache, Athena, EMR), networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, VPN), security and identity management (IAM, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, WAF, Shield), observability and operations (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, AWS Config, Trusted Advisor, EventBridge), and DevOps automation tools (CloudFormation, CDK, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Manage cloud security and risk by enforcing compliance, zero trust principles, performing security architecture reviews, vulnerability and posture management, penetration testing mitigation, and incident response.
• Oversee financial operations by optimizing cloud spending, establishing chargeback models, monitoring AWS utilization, and maximizing reserved instance and savings plan efficiency.
• Ensure continuous availability of cloud services by leading site reliability engineering and cloud operations teams; define and track SLAs, SLOs and KPIs; and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Lead and mentor teams of cloud architects, engineers, and operations managers; manage cloud vendors and third-party partners.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Expertise in AWS architecture and cloud operations at an enterprise scale.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and serverless computing.
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in enterprise networking, identity and access management, and cybersecurity controls.
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code methodologies.