Practice Head Cloud Chennai

TECEZE; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TECEZE is seeking a Practice Head Cloud & Infrastructure Services to lead and scale its cloud services business in Public Cloud, Private Cloud and SRE/Automation. You will own P&L, drive revenue growth, margin and delivery excellence across GTM, solutioning and delivery.

You will build a high-performance team, architect end‑to‑end cloud journeys, oversee partnerships with AWS/Azure/GCP and VMware/OpenStack, and shape the roadmap for managed services, modernization, and platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading cloud infrastructure services with full P&L responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own practice P&L;: revenue, cost, GM%, utilization, bench, subcontractor spend, tool/licensing costs.

Skills

P&L ownership

Cloud strategy

Leadership

GTM

Automation

SRE

Platform engineering

Partnerships

Pre-sales

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

VMware

OpenStack

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Job Title

Practice Head Cloud & Infrastructure Services (Public Cloud | Private Cloud | SRE/Automation)

Department / Tower

Cloud & Infra Services (CIS)

Reporting To

CEO / COO / EVP Technology Services (as per org structure)

Role Purpose

The Practice Head will build, lead, and scale Tecezes Cloud & Infrastructure Services business with full ownership of P&L;, revenue growth, gross margin, and delivery excellence across:

Public Cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP)

Private Cloud: VMware, OpenStack (implementation + managed services)

SRE / Platform Engineering: automation, reliability, observability, CI/CD, IaC, FinOps enablement

This role requires a leader who has been hands-on earlier in their career, understands architecture and operations deeply, and can drive GTM + solutions + delivery + practice capability end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Own practice P&L;: revenue, cost, GM%, utilization, bench, subcontractor spend, tool/licensing costs.
  Define annual operating plan, quarterly targets, pricing strategy, margin guardrails, and delivery model.
  Establish a scalable structure for pre-sales, projects, managed services, and CoE.
  Drive predictable growth through pipeline governance and recurring revenue expansion.
• Own the sales number for the tower (direct + supported sales).
  Partner with Sales/Account teams to build account plans, white-space analysis, and conversion plays.
  Lead deal shaping: discovery, solution positioning, commercials, staffing, and risk assumptions.
  Engage CXO/IT leadership in customers for cloud strategy, modernization roadmap, managed services transformation.
  Build and maintain a solid partner ecosystem (AWS/Azure/GCP/VMware/OEMs).
  Typical offerings to drive:
  Cloud assessment & roadmap, landing zone, migration factory, modernization, container/Kubernetes platform
  Managed cloud operations (24x7), SRE transformation, FinOps optimization
  DR/BCP, security & co .