Product Owner - Cloud & Compute

diageo; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Diageo is expanding its Digital & Technology function, seeking a senior cloud leader to guide architecture and deployment of scalable cloud platforms. You will drive migration, modernization, and governance while mentoring engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure infrastructure.

The role emphasizes enterprise cloud strategies, automation, and collaboration with security and DevOps teams to ensure high availability and cost effectiveness across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Led architecture and deployment of enterprise cloud environments.
• Implemented automation and IaC using Terraform and other tools.
• Managed cloud migration, modernization and hybrid compute strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud architecture, deployment, and management of enterprise-scale cloud environments.
• Drive cloud migration and modernization initiatives across apps and infra.
• Develop, review and enforce cloud governance, standards and security controls.
• Mentor cloud and infrastructure engineering teams and manage SLAs/SLOs.

Skills

Cloud Leadership

Cloud Architecture

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

VMware

Azure

AWS

Security & Compliance

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Stack HCI

Job description

Job Description

About us:With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world's most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life's moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.Join us and play your part in making life's moments mean a little more

About the Function:Digital & Technology (D&T) is transforming how Diageo works, from how we source ingredients to how we connect with customers and consumers around the world.

This is where data, technology and creativity come together to solve real business challenges and unlock new opportunities. Whether it's building platforms, using data to drive decisions or shaping digital experiences, the work here has tangible impact across every part of our business.

You'll be part of a team that's constantly learning, experimenting and pushing boundaries, with the freedom to explore new ideas and the support to turn them into reality.

About the role

The role requires a combination of technical leadership, architecture, hands-on engineering, operational excellence, security, automation, and stakeholder management. The candidate will be responsible for driving cloud transformation initiatives, improving infrastructure reliability and scalability, and mentoring cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud & Compute Leadership
  • Lead the architecture, deployment, and management of enterprise-scale cloud and compute environments.
  • Manage cloud compute services, virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and associated infrastructure.
  • Drive cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives across applications and infrastructure.
  • Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of cloud platforms.
  • Establish cloud governance, standards, best practices, and operational processes.
  • Manage and optimize enterprise on-premises and hybrid compute environments, including physical and virtual server infrastructure.
  • Lead and manage server and virtualization platforms including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, and Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI).
• Cloud Architecture & Engineering
  • Design secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
  • Evaluate and implement cloud services across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
  • Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, including virtualization, containerization, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Review technical designs and provide architectural guidance to engineering teams.
  • Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Automation & DevOps
  • Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
  • Implement and improve CI/CD processes for infrastructure and application deployments.
  • Promote automation for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, patching, and operational tasks.
  • Work closely with DevOps, SRE, application, and security teams to improve deployment and operational processes.
  • Support container and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure Operations
  • Provide technical leadership for cloud infrastructure operations and production environments.
  • Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, availability, capacity, and performance metrics.
  • Lead incident, problem, and change management for critical cloud infrastructure.Participate in root-cause analysis and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions.
  • Develop disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high-availability strategies and responsible to execute Annual DR activities.
  • Ensure infrastructure lifecycle management, patching, vulnerability management, upgrades, and capacity planning.
  • Manage enterprise cloud and on-premises Windows/Linux server environments.
  • Manage enterprise virtualization environments across VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix/AHV, and Azure Local.
  • Manage enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure using Azure and Commvault
  • Experience with SCOM and enterprise infrastructure monitoring, including health, availability, and performance monitoring.
• Security & Compliance
  • Partner with security teams to implement cloud security controls and best practices.
  • Ensure appropriate identity and access management, encryption, network security, and security monitoring.
  • Support compliance requirements and cloud security assessments.
  • Implement least-privilege access and secure configuration standards.
  • Identify and mitigate infrastructure and cloud security risks.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management
  • Lead and mentor cloud, compute, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams.
  • Provide tec