Cloud Platform Executive: Secure, Scalable Migrations & FinOps

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center, establishing production environments, patterns, and operational capabilities for cloud migrations at scale. Drive secure, cost-efficient outcomes across security, resiliency, automation, and FinOps while coordinating with architecture, cyber, and risk teams.

The role centers on creating cloud-first standards, reusable blueprints, and migration playbooks, with accountability to senior stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive leadership experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering within a regulated enterprise.
• Deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, cloud networking, identity, security, containers, infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
• Strong knowledge of multi-region resiliency, active-active architecture, disaster recovery, cloud edge technologies, private connectivity, and traffic management.
• Demonstrated experience with managed identity, zero-trust controls, FinOps, large-scale migrations, and complex production change.
• Executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions into business, client, and risk outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud Nerve Center roadmap and translate modernization priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
• Lead traffic management, web application protection, private connectivity, and zero-trust controls for WSP cloud applications.
• Establish multi-region, active-active, recovery, observability, capacity, and incident-readiness standards for critical services.
• Deliver reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, migration playbooks, and operational-readiness standards.
• Improve cost transparency and savings through autoscaling, rightsizing, allocation, forecasting, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• Ensure cloud capabilities meet cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, data-protection, and operational-control requirements.
• Align senior stakeholders, mentor technical leaders, and foster accountability, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Executive communication

Cloud platform expertise

SRE & production

Multi-region resiliency

FinOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

Akamai

Cloud security

Job description

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center, establishing production environments, patterns, and operational capabilities for cloud migrations at scale. Drive secure, cost-efficient outcomes across security, resiliency, automation, and FinOps while coordinating with architecture, cyber, and risk teams.

The role centers on creating cloud-first standards, reusable blueprints, and migration playbooks, with accountability to senior stakeholders and