Hybrid Cloud Automation & Governance Lead

Nutanix; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutanix in San Jose, CA is seeking a Lead Cloud Automation & Governance Engineer to shape our cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will own governance, FinOps, and automation, acting as a senior IC and technical lead within the G&A – IT Cloud Ops organization.

You will design and operate reusable cloud platforms, implement GitOps, IaC with Terraform, and enforce security guardrails with InfoSec. The role emphasizes cross-account management, multi-region deployments, and continuous

Qualifications

• Professional experience operating or engineering cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Hands-on AWS IAM, Organizations, EC2, S3 and related services.
• GitOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and production change management.
• Terraform experience; multi-cloud familiarity (GCP/Azure).
• Automation scripting in Python or Go; strong security posture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reusable cloud platforms and self-service workflows.
• Lead AWS governance, security guardrails, and cross-account access models.
• Implement auditable GitOps pipelines with security and testing integrated.
• Lead IaC efforts using Terraform across multi-account/multi-cloud environments.
• Drive unified governance and FinOps across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Skills

AWS IAM

Governance

GitOps

IaC Terraform

Python/Go

Multi-Cloud basics

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

EventBridge

Job description

Nutanix in San Jose, CA is seeking a Lead Cloud Automation & Governance Engineer to shape our cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will own governance, FinOps, and automation, acting as a senior IC and technical lead within the G&A – IT Cloud Ops organization.

You will design and operate reusable cloud platforms, implement GitOps, IaC with Terraform, and enforce security guardrails with InfoSec. The role emphasizes cross-account management, multi-region deployments, and continuous