Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Technology is seeking an experienced Technology Engineering Manager to lead a team of infrastructure engineers and drive secure, scalable cloud solutions. You will translate business needs into technical priorities, oversee risk and governance, and mentor leaders across distributed teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership during incidents and continuous improvement. You will partner with architecture and engineering leaders to shape cloud roadmaps, implement IaC practices, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience leading cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or cloud operations teams in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, operating, or modernizing cloud infrastructure and platform services at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading critical incidents, operational reviews, service improvements, migrations, and cross‑functional delivery.
• Strong understanding of cloud reliability, security, resilience, capacity, performance, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to coach and develop technical professionals and first‑line leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical issues to senior and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with distributed teams, external partners, and global operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery and operational performance across cloud infrastructure and AI platform capabilities.
• Liaise and coordinate with Nationwide US leadership team and frontline staff.
• Establish clear priorities, service expectations, ownership models, and escalation paths across participating teams.
• Maintain a strong focus on availability, resilience, performance, scalability, recoverability, security, and compliance.
• Provide hands‑on leadership during complex cloud incidents, problem investigations, major changes, migrations, and service‑improvement initiatives.
• Drive standardization, automation, infrastructure as code, platform enablement, lifecycle management, and reduction of operational toil.
• Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to shape practical, scalable cloud road maps and adoption patterns.
• Build disciplined practices for monitoring, observability, configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, landing‑zone governance, and technical debt reduction.
• Strengthen FinOps practices by improving cloud cost transparency, forecasting, demand management, utilization, tagging, chargeback or showback, and accountability across cloud services.
• Promote secure‑by‑default, resilient‑by‑design, and repeatable cloud engineering patterns.
• Coordinate dependencies across Cloud, Core Infrastructure, Security, Network, Data, Applications, and enterprise architecture to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Develop trusted relationships with internal partners, cloud providers, vendors, and service providers.
• Translate business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, risks, and decisions for senior leadership.
• Ensure cloud processes and technical solutions support Nationwide’s risk‑management, governance, and audit expectations.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Incident management

Security & compliance

Vendor & budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Equivalent experience

Job description

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Position overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery and operational performance across cloud infrastructure and AI platform capabilities.
• Liaise and coordinate with Nationwide US leadership team and frontline staff.
• Establish clear priorities, service expectations, ownership models, and escalation paths across participating teams.
• Maintain a strong focus on availability, resilience, performance, scalability, recoverability, security, and compliance.
• Provide hands‑on leadership during complex cloud incidents, problem investigations, major changes, migrations, and service‑improvement initiatives.
• Drive standardization, automation, infrastructure as code, platform enablement, lifecycle management, and reduction of operational toil.
• Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to shape practical, scalable cloud road maps and adoption patterns.
• Build disciplined practices for monitoring, observability, configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, landing‑zone governance, and technical debt reduction.
• Strengthen FinOps practices by improving cloud cost transparency, forecasting, demand management, utilization, tagging, chargeback or showback, and accountability across cloud services.
• Promote secure‑by‑default, resilient‑by‑design, and repeatable cloud engineering patterns.
• Coordinate dependencies across Cloud, Core Infrastructure, Security, Network, Data, Applications, and enterprise architecture to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Develop trusted relationships with internal partners, cloud providers, vendors, and service providers.
• Translate business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, risks, and decisions for senior leadership.
• Ensure cloud processes and technical solutions support Nationwide’s risk‑management, governance, and audit expectations.

People leadership expectations

• Create a positive, inclusive, and accountable team environment.
• Coach individuals through regular feedback, career conversations, mentoring, and meaningful development opportunities.
• Build a strong bench of cloud and platform talent through delegation, stretch assignments, knowledge sharing, and succession planning.
• Recognize contributions and reinforce behaviors that improve customer outcomes, teamwork, and reliability.
• Lead through change with transparency, empathy, consistency, and a bias toward constructive problem solving.
• Encourage healthy challenge, learning from incidents, and continuous improvement without blame.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience leading cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or cloud operations teams in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, operating, or modernizing cloud infrastructure and platform services at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading critical incidents, operational reviews, service improvements, migrations, and cross‑functional delivery.
• Strong understanding of cloud reliability, security, resilience, capacity, performance, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to coach and develop technical professionals and first‑line leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical issues to senior and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with distributed teams, external partners, and global operating models.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in a regulated, highly available, or financial‑services environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, containers, platform engineering, observability, DevSecOps, and modern operational practices.
• Experience with cloud landing zones, identity and access management, network architecture, resiliency patterns, and disaster recovery.
• Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, cloud‑provider relationships, service providers, and technology road maps.
• Experience establishing or improving FinOps, IT service management, or reliability engineering practices.

Leadership profile

We are seeking a leader who is technically credible, calm under pressure, optimistic, collaborative, and committed to making the people and the platform better every day. The right candidate brings energy to difficult problems, stays close enough to the work to understand reality, and creates an environment where people can do their best work.

Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technological solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! The Technology Engineering Manager manages a team of infrastructure engineers who analyse, design, develop and implement hardware/software. You’ll determine hardware/software systems requirements; lead systems hardware/software design; plan projects; and establish priorities. You’ll also coordinate with other managers to integrate projects with other systems hardware/software. As a people leader, you have responsibility for project deployment, career development, performance management and pay determination. You also may have the opportunity to mentor associates on other teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages a team that delivers on build and operational components for the product(s) aligned to a technology area, such as but not limited to, consulting, managing and development of new products, upgrade/patching efforts, annual budgeting, efficiency efforts, etc. and the function responsible for driving a competitive unit cost through efficient product lifecycle.
• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Leads a team accountable for product delivery and the first line of defense for risk and security management.
• Assigns and allocates roles, in partnership with the Technology Product Executive, based on capacity and demand (finance, marketing, etc.).
• Responsible for the design, development, modification and implementation of products and processes to aid in the overall product lifecycle and operational metrics.
• Manages a team who is accountable for product management across platforms (on-premises, off-premises and across premises) by providing engineering support for products/processes to improve productivity and reduce cost.
• Demonstrates user empathy by partnering with user advocates to understand and incorporate user sentiment.
• Understands and manages team skill maturity in context of effective product management.
• Oversee vendor management/relationships and sourcing, in collaboration with Technology Product Manager.
• Drives release cadence and business feature alignment leveraging automation to drive speed and actively drives continuous process improvement activities including Lean, process/product innovation, quality, cost reduction and other initiatives.
• Leads people through guidance and support on the execution of work; management of associates including but not limited to performance management, salary planning, training, development, workforce planning, hiring, and disciplinary actions; and attracts, hires, engages and develops the team through impactful recruitment, coaching and feedback.
• Participates in strategic initiatives/planning for core products including products that cross Technologies.
• Develops and manages project budgets and deployment, including training and development of personnel.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics, or related field is strongly preferred.

Experience

• Eight years knowledge of operational management concepts and techniques.
• Experience leading multiple teams and assets across various technology platforms.
• Three years of management experience is preferred.
• Experience with concepts and solutions: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and package solutions.

Technical Skills

• Business Acumen
• Business Strategies
• Computer Science
• Financial Management
• IT Infrastructure
• Technical Acumen
• Vendor Management
• Technology Strategies

Soft Skills & Attributes

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to influence, negotiate, and set priorities
• Mentoring and coaching abilities to guide associates
• Identifying and removing blockers to progress
• Ability to work in agile and global environments
• Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus
• Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence

Additional Information

Reporting Structure: Reports to Technology Executive – India

Working Hours: Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.

Location Flexibility: [Hybrid/Remote/In-office] with periodic in-office collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged.