Director – Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

Umanist NA; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Umanist NA seeks an accomplished Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering to lead and scale our cloud platforms for a large-scale SaaS product. You will own the architecture, drive automation, and mentor senior engineers across networking, storage, compute, and virtualization.

The role requires deep hands-on cloud experience, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering reliable, secure, and highly available infrastructure in a product environment.

Qualifications

• 18+ years in Infrastructure/Cloud/Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years at Director level leading engineering teams.
• Experience in SaaS / cloud software companies.
• Deep AWS and VMware expertise.
• IaC and automation experience.
• Experience adopting AI tools to boost productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering teams supporting large-scale SaaS environments.
• Define and execute infrastructure and cloud strategy aligned with product and business growth.
• Architect and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure platforms.
• Drive AWS cloud architecture and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Lead VMware-based virtualization and integration with cloud infrastructure.
• Own infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead architecture and engineering decisions across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and distributed systems.
• Establish automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms and reduce manual operational dependencies.
• Partner closely with application/product engineering, security, DevOps, SRE, and other technical teams.
• Build engineering standards around monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Mentor and develop senior engineering managers and infrastructure engineers.
• Identify opportunities to use AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational processes.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-powered engineering tools across infrastructure and platform teams.

Skills

AWS

VMware

Infrastructure as Code

SaaS leadership

Hybrid cloud

Distributed systems

Networking

Storage

Observability

AI tools

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Job Title: Director – Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 18+ Years

Leadership Experience: 5+ Years in Director-level Engineering Leadership

Industry: SaaS / B2B Software / Cloud Product Company

Important Candidate Requirement

Candidates must have significant experience working for SaaS, cloud software, or technology product companies.

Role Overview

We are looking for a senior Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering leader to own and scale infrastructure platforms supporting a large-scale SaaS product environment.

The ideal candidate will bring deep hands‑on expertise in cloud infrastructure, AWS, VMware, hybrid cloud architectures, infrastructure automation, networking, virtualization, storage, and distributed systems, combined with strong engineering leadership experience.

This is a senior technical leadership position requiring experience building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure for a product/SaaS business, not a services delivery environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering teams supporting large-scale SaaS environments.
• Define and execute infrastructure and cloud strategy aligned with product and business growth.
• Architect and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure platforms.
• Drive AWS cloud architecture and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Lead VMware-based virtualization and integration with cloud infrastructure.
• Own infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead architecture and engineering decisions across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and distributed systems.
• Establish automation and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms and reduce manual operational dependencies.
• Partner closely with application/product engineering, security, DevOps, SRE, and other technical teams.
• Build engineering standards around monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Mentor and develop senior engineering managers and infrastructure engineers.
• Identify opportunities to use AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational processes.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI-powered engineering tools across infrastructure and platform teams.

Mandatory Requirements

• 18+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related areas.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience at Director level or equivalent, managing infrastructure/cloud/platform engineering teams.
• Strong experience working within SaaS / cloud software / technology product companies.
• Deep expertise with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with VMware and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Networking
  • Virtualization
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Distributed systems
  • High availability
  • Scalability
  • Disaster recovery
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
• Experience operating infrastructure platforms supporting large-scale SaaS products/environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a force multiplier for engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
• Ability to advocate and drive adoption of AI tools across engineering teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, architecture, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Experience

• AWS infrastructure at significant scale.
• Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
• Kubernetes/containerized infrastructure.
• CI/CD and DevOps/SRE practices.
• Observability and monitoring platforms.
• Multi-region / highly available SaaS infrastructure.
• Cloud migration and hybrid-cloud transformation.
• Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical SaaS platforms.

Skills: teams,automation,aws,virtualization,leadership,saas,cloud,infrastructure,architecture,platforms