Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xformics Inc. is a global product and strategic consulting company with a strong presence across the USA, Canada, Europe, and India. The Manager, Hybrid Cloud Engineering leads the engineering and operational lifecycle of enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and cost-effective services that support critical business applications while driving modernization through automation and standardization.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a distributed team of senior infrastructure engineers responsible for hybrid cloud engineering and operations
- Own engineering and operational accountability for Azure infrastructure, private cloud, virtualization platforms, Linux server infrastructure, storage, backup and related infrastructure services
- Drive infrastructure modernization through automation, standardization, repeatable patterns and infrastructure as code, including Terraform where appropriate
- Maintain operational excellence across availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, incident response, lifecycle management and disaster recovery readiness
- Support strategic migration and modernization efforts from legacy on-premises infrastructure to Azure and modern private cloud platforms where technically and financially justified
- Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure infrastructure services align to security, compliance, vulnerability management and least-privilege operating practices
- Partner with Finance, Procurement and vendors to manage budget, renewals, licensing, hardware lifecycle, cloud consumption and cost optimization opportunities
- Establish practical operating metrics, KPIs and service health reporting for infrastructure reliability, cost, risk, lifecycle and delivery performance
- Lead prioritization across production support, project delivery, technical debt reduction, lifecycle remediation and business-driven infrastructure requests
- Guide root cause analysis, post-incident reviews and corrective action planning for major infrastructure incidents
- Ensure infrastructure designs are supportable, observable, recoverable, secure and aligned with enterprise architecture and operational standards
- Represent Hybrid Cloud Engineering in cross-functional planning, change governance, budget discussions and executive-level infrastructure updates
Skills
- Proven people leadership experience managing high-performing infrastructure engineers, including prioritization, coaching, performance management and career development
- Strong hands-on background in enterprise infrastructure engineering or operations across hybrid cloud and private cloud environments
- Deep working knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, identity integration, monitoring, governance and cost management concepts
- Experience managing virtualization or hyperconverged infrastructure such as VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, VxRail, or comparable private cloud platforms
- Experience operating Linux platforms at enterprise scale, preferably including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Working knowledge of enterprise storage, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity patterns
- Strong infrastructure as code and automation knowledge, including Terraform, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, Ansible, ARM or Bicep
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as SCOM, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or comparable tools
- Strong understanding of information security fundamentals, including vulnerability remediation, privileged access, segmentation, secure administration and audit readiness
- Ability to manage vendors, contracts, renewals, licensing, hardware lifecycle and financial planning for infrastructure services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk, cost and service impact into clear business language
- Ability to work across business, application, database, cybersecurity and operations teams to resolve complex issues and deliver infrastructure outcomes
- Willingness to support occasional early, late, or off-hours work for major incidents, maintenance windows, disaster recovery activities, or critical business events
- 3 or more years of management experience leading engineers, infrastructure programs, vendors and budgets
- 8 or more years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, architecture, consulting, or infrastructure operations
- Demonstrated experience supporting production environments with strong change, incident, problem and lifecycle management practices
- Experience with Dell, HPE, IBM Power, Nutanix, VMware, Dell EMC or IBM storage technologies
- Experience supporting infrastructure for critical enterprise workloads such as SAP, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, middleware, ecommerce, warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing systems
- Experience with Azure reservations, savings plans, tagging standards, cost allocation, FinOps practices and consumption forecasting
- Experience building operational dashboards, KPI reporting, capacity plans and executive-ready infrastructure status updates
- Familiarity with DNS, public cloud connectivity, load balancing, certificate lifecycle, private endpoint patterns and hybrid network dependencies
- Experience with backup and recovery platforms such as Rubrik, including restore readiness, ransomware recovery principles and disaster recovery testing
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
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