Head - Cloud CoE - GCP/AWS Azure & Hybrid

- Contribute to overall IT strategy and roadmap formulation by evaluating ideas and providing inputs from Cloud perspective

- Define the strategic objectives, road map and goals for the Cloud CoE function keeping in mind the present/ future requirements of the group and business

- Envision the future of Cloud Technology adoption for the organization and champion strategic projects / initiatives that can create business value consistent with the organizations requirements and expectations

- Develop and structure the best practices and standards in tune with the latest industry needs and emerging thought streams (develop templates, blueprints, standard processes & and methodologies and scale with time)

- Collaborate with Business CIOs and assist in formulating the Cloud strategy for individual businesses in alignment with the requirement

- Define budget for the technology function basis established guidelines and ensure adherence; Monitor budgeting for technology initiatives and projects

Educational Qualification:

- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; Masters Degree in IT management field

Experiences:

- Minimum of 15-18 years of experience and at least 5+ years of proven experience in cloud infrastructure projects on cloud assessments and cloud migrations

- AWS Architecture / Azure Architecture experience ideally with the appropriate vendor certification

- Understanding of hybrid cloud solutions and experience of integrating public cloud into tradition hosting/delivery models

- Strong understanding of cloud migration techniques (on premise to Cloud Platforms

- Experience in development and deployment in three or more of the following:

a. AWS apps technologies such as RDS, Elastic Beanstalk

b. Azure or AWS IaaS & PaaS Technologies

c. Deployed applications with Web UI frontends

d. Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces

e. Experience building private AMIs on VPCs

f. High Availability and Disaster recovery implementations

- Experience of designing and implementing application and infrastructure monitoring solutions

- Experience architecting & deploying multi-tiered applications, security architectures across infra and applications

- Experience building and deploying multi-tier, scalable, and highly available applications using Java, Microsoft and Database technologies

- Experience in performance tuning (load balancing, web servers, content delivery Networks, Caching (Content and API))

- Appreciation of cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions

- Sound exposure to IT research & technologies tools and techniques and knowledge sharing

- Exposure of managing large scale transformation projects & seasoned understanding of change management

- Experience of managing complex stakeholder interactions and leading discussions with top management

- Experience of managing technical teams and working in cross functional set up; Ability to coach and guide teams