Cloud Delivery Manager

Epam Systems; Pune District, Chennai, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Pune, India seeks a Technical Cloud Delivery Manager to lead complex enterprise migrations and modernization programmes to AWS, balancing delivery leadership with technical depth to influence solution choices.

You will own end-to-end delivery from discovery to operations, coordinate cross-functional teams, govern risks, and translate technical constraints into clear business outcomes for clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 14+ years in IT delivery with cloud transformation leadership.
• 7+ years leading large cloud transformation, migration programs and managing multiple workstreams.
• AWS Cloud Acumen: core services and migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor).
• Security, resilience governance: identity, networking, key management, backup/DR, regulatory needs.
• Delivery methods: RAID, financial governance, change control, executive reporting; Jira/Confluence/ADO usage.
• Engineering fluency: DevOps/CI-CD, IaC (Terraform, Bicep or ARM), Kubernetes, APIs.
• Communication: ability to explain trade-offs and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end programme delivery from discovery to operations, including governance.
• Lead cross-functional, distributed teams; manage scope, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks and exec governance.
• Review architectures and migration strategies; validate dependencies, security, resilience and cost assumptions.
• Chair migration readiness and governance forums; lead Go/No-Go, cutover, rollback and warranty activities.
• Partner with client business, security, infrastructure, data and operations leaders to translate constraints to business impact.
• Establish delivery metrics: throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability and cost.
• Drive cloud governance and FinOps adoption, including tagging, budget controls and optimization backlogs.
• Support presales, estimates, delivery assurance, account growth; coach delivery managers and leads.
• Use GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis and stakeholder communication.

Skills

IT delivery leadership

Cloud transformation

Program management

Stakeholder management

Agile & Hybrid delivery

Governance & risk management

GenAI for delivery management

Financial governance

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps / ADO

GenAI tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

Cloud Delivery Manager – Cloud Migrations (AWS)

We are seeking an experienced Technical Cloud Delivery Manager to lead complex enterprise migration and modernization programmes to AWS. The role combines accountable delivery leadership with sufficient technical depth to challenge solution decisions, govern risks, and earn client trust through the full migration lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

Own end-to-end programme delivery across discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations. Overall responsible for Project/People/Account Management.

Lead multiple cross-functional and distributed teams; manage scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance. Awareness of Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities

Review solution architectures and migration strategies; validate application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions.

Chair migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR etc.; lead Go/No-Go decisions, coordinate cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance.

Partner with client business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations leaders to translate technical constraints into clear business impacts and decisions.

Establish delivery metrics including migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization.

Drive adoption of cloud governance and FinOps practices, including policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs.

Support presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development; coach delivery managers and technical leads.

Use approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while protecting data and intellectual property.

Required qualifications and skills

Experience: 14+ years in IT delivery, including 7+ years leading large cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes; experience managing multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders and program execution using Agile & Hybrid methodologies

AWS Cloud Acumen: Functional understanding of core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM) and migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor etc.). Familiarity on core services such as AWS - MGN, AWS DMS will be essential. Knowledge of AWS landing zone and governance would be essential.

Security and resilience: Ability to govern identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements.

Delivery methods: RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting. Working knowledge of project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) & usage of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management

Engineering fluency: Understanding of DevOps/CI-CD, IaC (Terraform, Bicep or ARM), Kubernetes, APIs.

Communication: Ability to facilitate architecture reviews and explain technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences.