Senior Infrastructure Leader

Grant Thornton Bharat Llp; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton Bharat Llp in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Leader to design and operate a secure, scalable corporate IT, cloud, identity and AI‑ready foundation for a rapidly growing AI company. You will own cloud foundations, IAM, and governance while guiding a hands‑on leadership team to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will implement infrastructure-as-code, establish security baselines, and oversee AI platform integrations with tools like Claude/OpenAI and others.

Qualifications

• 1012+ years of experience across infrastructure, IT and cloud operations.
• Hands-on depth in AWS/Azure/GCP, Google Workspace/M365, Okta/Entra, VDI, GitHub, Terraform, CI/CD.
• Experience building technology infrastructure in early-stage or rapidly scaling organizations.
• Ability to document and codify foundations so nothing depends on tribal knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and establish the corporate IT environment including email, collaboration tools and endpoint management.
• Build automated employee onboarding and offboarding processes.
• Establish laptop provisioning, endpoint security, patching and device-management standards.
• Own identity and access management including SSO, MFA, RBAC and privileged access.
• Govern AI platforms rollout, ensuring secure and governed deployment.
• Build and maintain cloud orgs, accounts, networking, IAM; implement IaC standards.
• Lead GitHub administration and developer tooling in collaboration with engineering.
• Establish centralized logging, monitoring, alerting and observability; ensure disaster recovery.
• Manage SaaS procurement, license management and FinOps controls as the company scales.
• Build and mentor the infra team as scale justifies.

Skills

Infra design

Cloud platforms

IAM & SSO

Security posture

FinOps

Documentation

Vendor mgmt

Leadership

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Okta/Entra

SSO/OIDC

CI/CD

OpenTofu

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Leader

Mission

Build and operate the company's corporate IT, cloud, identity and technology infrastructure from the ground up, creating a secure and scalable foundation for a rapidly growing AI company.

Your Impact

Corporate IT & Employee Technology

• Design and establish the company's corporate IT environment, including email, collaboration tools, endpoint management and employee technology provisioning.
• Build automated employee onboarding and offboarding processes that scale with headcount growth.
• Establish laptop provisioning, endpoint security, patching and device-management standards across the company.

Identity, Access & AI Platforms

• Own company-wide identity and access management, including SSO, MFA, RBAC and privileged access administration.
• Establish and administer enterprise AI platforms including Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other approved AI tools, ensuring secure and governed rollout across the org.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Build and maintain AWS/Azure/GCP cloud organizations, accounts, networking, IAM and foundational infrastructure.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform/OpenTofu or equivalent, so infrastructure is versioned, reviewable and repeatable rather than click-ops.
• Own GitHub organization administration and foundational developer tooling in partnership with engineering.
• Implement secure management of credentials, API keys, certificates and secrets.
• Establish centralized logging, monitoring, alerting and infrastructure observability.
• Implement backup, disaster-recovery and business-continuity capabilities.

Governance, Spend & Security

• Establish SaaS procurement, license management and technology inventory processes.
• Manage cloud and SaaS spend, budgets and FinOps controls as the company scales.
• Establish baseline security controls and support SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness as compliance requirements emerge.
• Develop policies, standards and documentation so infrastructure doesn't depend on tribal knowledge.

Team Building

• Build the infrastructure/IT team as company requirements grow, hiring and mentoring engineers once scale justifies it not before.

What We'd Look For

We’d favor a builder/operator over someone who spent the last ten years administering a mature Fortune 500 environment. This role is for someone who is energized by greenfield problems, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to be hands‑on with the keyboard well past the point most leaders at this level stop being.

You’re Our Senior Infrastructure Leader If

• You have 1012+ years of experience across infrastructure, IT and cloud operations, with hands‑on depth in several of: AWS/Azure/GCP, Google Workspace/M365, Okta/Entra, VDI, GitHub, Terraform, endpoint management, SSO/OIDC/SAML, networking/DNS, secrets management, CI/CD, observability and security controls.
• You have demonstrated experience building technology infrastructure in an early‑stage or rapidly scaling organization not just operating infrastructure someone else designed.
• You think in terms of secure, scalable foundations, and you document and codify as you go so nothing depends on tribal knowledge.
• You're comfortable owning a wide surface area IT, identity, cloud, security posture and vendor/spend management before there's a team to delegate to.
• You have a bias for action and are willing to make pragmatic tradeoffs to unblock a fast‑moving company, while still building toward compliance‑ready standards (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) as the company matures.
• You can operate independently with minimal existing process, and you're motivated by building the process rather than waiting for someone else to define it.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience standing up governance and access controls for enterprise AI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot).
• Prior experience taking a company through SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 readiness.
• Experience building out an infrastructure/IT function and hiring its first engineers.
• FinOps experience managing multi‑cloud and SaaS spend at a growing company.