Key Responsibilities:
Business impact
- Ensure operational and strategic excellence of enterprise hosting, cloud, identity, and hybrid infrastructure services.
- Strengthen the organization's security posture through effective architecture, governance, IAM, privileged access, policy management, and Zero Trust practices across Azure and GCP.
- Improve platform reliability and service continuity through high availability, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Optimize on-premises and cloud resources through Azure Cost Management, GCP Cloud Billing, budgeting, forecasting, and FinOps practices.
- Enable stronger service support through technical knowledge transfer, documentation, training, and structured operational procedures.
- Support compliance and operational control through standardized change procedures, configuration control, audit readiness, LGPD, and GDPR alignment.
Strategic Leadership & Road mapping
- Lead infrastructure and cloud technical teams, promoting continuous professional and technical development.
- Manage people with focus on performance, engagement, mentoring, training, and succession planning.
- Define and promote multi-cloud architecture, security, governance, resilience, and cost optimization standards.
- Coordinate global cloud migration, integration, modernization, and optimization programs with international stakeholders.
- Develop the enterprise hosting and cloud roadmap aligned with business priorities and technology strategy.
- Translate complex technical topics into clear operational and executive communication for regional and global stakeholders.
- Own and govern Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Google Cloud Platform, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud IAM, and integrated hybrid services.
- Govern Azure subscriptions, management groups, policies, RBAC, networking, compute, storage, backup, monitoring, and cost management capabilities.
- Govern GCP organizations, folders, projects, IAM roles, service accounts, organization policies, VPCs, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Operations, and billing controls.
- Oversee enterprise identity services including Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS, DHCP, PKI/Certificate Services, federation, Conditional Access, privileged access, and service identities.
- Maintain HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, configurations, inventories, operating procedures, recovery plans, and as-built documentation.
Enterprise Application Delivery, Operations & Governance
- Design, migrate, deploy, and optimize Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, and hybrid infrastructure services in complex enterprise environments.
- Define cloud landing zones, resource hierarchy, networking, identity boundaries, policy controls, operational standards, and guardrails.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM Templates and supported by DevOps and CI/CD practices.
- Monitor availability, performance, capacity, security, compliance, consumption, and service KPIs, reporting indicators to global leadership.
- Coordinate backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, incident response, problem management, and resilience testing.
- Act as focal point for audits, regulatory compliance, security reviews, vendors, and cloud service governance.
- Manage Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and relevant managed database services.
Provide leadership and develop talent.
- Lead, coach, and develop infrastructure and cloud teams with focus on performance, engagement, training, and technical growth.
- Develop onboarding plans, operational runbooks, and training materials for IT teams.
- Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions covering cloud architecture, IAM, governance, operations, security, automation, and cost management.
- Document technical knowledge for internal handover and long-term operational continuity.
- Support helpdesk and related support areas through structured escalation processes and knowledge transfer.
Required (skills and experience):
Technical & Business Expertise
- 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud computing, datacenter operations, virtualization, identity services, and enterprise platform services.
- Advanced hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Google Cloud Platform, and hybrid infrastructure integration.
- Deep understanding of Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud IAM, RBAC, Conditional Access, identity federation, service accounts, privileged access, and Zero Trust architecture.
- Experience with Azure and GCP networking including VNet/VPC, Shared VPC, VPN, Interconnect, load balancing, DNS, NAT, routing, and private connectivity.
- Experience with Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Armor, Security Command Center, Cloud KMS, and Secret Manager.
- Experience operating highly available, business-critical 24x7 environments with global presence.
- Cloud governance, security controls, policy management, backup, disaster recovery, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
- Azure Cost Management, GCP Cloud Billing, FinOps, budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, and cloud cost optimization.
- Automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Google Cloud CLI (gcloud), Terraform, and DevOps tools.
- Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and managed cloud databases.
Leadership & Delivery
- Proven ability to lead technical infrastructure and cloud teams and promote continuous professional development.
- Experience managing people with focus on performance, engagement, mentoring, training, and delivery accountability.
- Hands-on involvement across all phases of cloud migration, modernization, integration, security, and operational projects.
- Ability to coordinate global stakeholders, vendors, security, network, development, operations, and business teams.
- Ability to conduct structured knowledge transfer and develop technical and managerial documentation.
- Strong executive communication, analytical thinking, decision-making, and troubleshooting capabilities.
Other Requirements
- Experience in a mid-to-large organization or complex multinational enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with change management, configuration control, versioning, service management, and operational governance.
- Advanced English required. Spanish and other languages are desirable for interaction with global teams.
- Ability to operate as both a people leader and a hands-on technical reference.
- Availability to work in a hybrid model according to corporate policy and global operational demands.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other graduate degree in a related field is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
- ITIL, COBIT, FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certifications.
- Background in multi-cloud transformation, landing zones, IAM modernization, Zero Trust, cloud governance, FinOps, Kubernetes, SRE, or infrastructure automation.