Senior Director, Cloud & Data Center Infra & FinOps

Houston; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HP is seeking a Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud & FinOps to lead modernization, governance, and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms across on-prem and cloud.

You will manage global teams, partner with architecture, security, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders to enable cost-effective, scalable services. Ideal candidates bring deep technical depth, transformational leadership, and strong financial acumen to drive cloud adoption, automation, and reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure and cloud operations.
• 7+ years leading global technical teams and large-scale enterprise infrastructure.
• Deep expertise across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud platforms, and tooling.
• Strong experience with hybrid cloud environments and cloud transformation programs.
• Proven FinOps, cloud optimization, or infrastructure governance leadership.
• Experience managing large budgets, technology vendors, and strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Excellent executive communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise infrastructure and hosting strategy aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Lead modernization initiatives across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup/recovery, and data center operations.
• Oversee hybrid infrastructure environments including enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, and public cloud platforms.
• Drive infrastructure lifecycle management, capacity planning, resiliency, and availability improvements.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet enterprise requirements for performance, scalability, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Establish operational standards, governance models, and engineering best practices across infrastructure domains.
• Lead enterprise cloud operations and engineering across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Drive cloud adoption, migration, optimization, and modernization programs.
• Establish cloud governance frameworks covering security, architecture standards, automation, tagging, compliance, and operational controls.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity teams to ensure secure and compliant cloud operations.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, and self-service platform capabilities.
• Enable scalable cloud platform operations supporting enterprise applications and services globally.
• Establish and lead enterprise FinOps governance, reporting, and optimization programs.
• Drive cloud cost transparency, accountability, forecasting, budgeting, and optimization initiatives.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards for infrastructure utilization, cloud consumption, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Technology leaders to optimize infrastructure spend and vendor contracts.
• Identify opportunities for automation, rightsizing, reserved instances, storage optimization, and operational efficiencies.
• Lead financial planning activities related to infrastructure and cloud investments.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and operational performance of enterprise infrastructure services.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Establish SLAs, SLOs, operational metrics, and service health reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across operations, engineering, and service delivery.
• Implement automation and AI-enabled operational efficiencies where appropriate.
• Support enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Lead and develop high-performing global infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Build organizational capability in cloud engineering, automation, FinOps, and modern infrastructure practices.
• Manage workforce planning, succession planning, vendor resources, and strategic hiring.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for senior technology and business leaders.
• Manage strategic relationships with cloud providers, infrastructure vendors, managed service providers, and colocation partners.
• Lead vendor negotiations, contract governance, performance management, and service reviews.
• Ensure vendor services align with enterprise expectations for cost, reliability, security, and operational performance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Global team leadership

Cloud platforms

FinOps

Budget & cost governance

Vendor management

Automation & IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Business

Master's degree in Technology/Business

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

HP is seeking a Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud & FinOps to lead modernization, governance, and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms across on-prem and cloud.

You will manage global teams, partner with architecture, security, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders to enable cost-effective, scalable services. Ideal candidates bring deep technical depth, transformational leadership, and strong financial acumen to drive cloud adoption, automation, and reliability