About Rubrik and the team

Rubrik is on a mission to secure the worlds data. With our Zero Trust Data Security platform we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks malicious insiders and operational disruptions. Rubrik protects data wherever it livesacross enterprise cloud and SaaSand delivers data observability orchestration and recovery at scale.

The Information Technology team at Rubrik influences business processes employee experience and technologies to scale our organization to $1B. This team creates operational efficiency across the company by centralizing the management of Infrastructure Technology and Data. The IT team ensures all stages of the software development lifecycle in a secured environment and scrutinizes the deployment of proper processes along with governance. They champion Rubrik on Rubrik and are the first customers of the Engineering teams at Rubrik. Were transforming global infrastructure and were looking for bold thinkers and builders to join us. If youre passionate about making an impact and shaping the future of cloud and platform infrastructurewed love to hear from you.

About the Role

Rubrik is hiring a strategic and hands-on Director Global Infrastructure Services to lead and grow our infrastructure presence in Bangalore. This role is a key leadership position within the GIPS (Global Infrastructure & Platform Services) organization whose end-to-end responsibility spanning:
- Data Centers & Colocation
- Compute & Virtualization
- Storage Platforms (Block Object Backup)
- Networking (Enterprise Production)
- Cloud Operations (AWS GCP Azure OCI)

You will act as the senior lead for GIPS in India partnering with global leaders to drive delivery talent growth operational maturity and modernization across infrastructure domains. This is a high-impact role for a technology leader who thrives on execution innovation and cross-functional leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the India-based senior leader for the Global Infrastructure & Platform Services organization.
• Build lead and scale teams across compute storage networking and cloud operations aligned with global strategies.
• Drive execution of infrastructure programs ensuring high availability security and scalability of Rubriks global platform.
• Establish operational rigor across all infrastructure services including monitoring incident response capacity management and change control.
• Partner closely with global peers in the US to co-own delivery outcomes architectural planning and roadmap execution.
• Help lead network strategy including corp-location connectivity Data Center network and network security establishing Rubriks virtual backbone to address growing multi-cloud connectivity requirements.
• Define and drive platform modernization efforts: automation Infrastructure-as-Code observability and service reliability.
• Foster a DevOps-centric culture that breaks silos between operations and engineering.
• Mentor and develop senior managers architects and ICs across the infrastructure organization.
• Represent GIPS India in executive discussions planning cycles and leadership forums.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

Required

• 15 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or operations with at least 5 years in director-level or senior leadership roles.
• Proven track record managing multi-disciplinary infrastructure teams: compute storage networking cloud.
• Deep technical understanding of data center infrastructure cloud-native platforms/networking and enterprise systems.
• Strong operational background in incident management service reliability monitoring and performance tuning.
• Experience operating in hybrid cloud environments & networking capabilities across AWS GCP Azure and/or OCI.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a global matrixed organization.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with experience influencing at the executive level.

Preferred

• Experience leading India-based engineering or ops teams for global technology companies.
• Familiarity with modern tooling such as Terraform Ansible Kubernetes and observability platforms.
• Knowledge of network security and compliance standards.
• Background in SaaS platform engineering or enterprise-scale operations is a plus.

Day 1 Expectations

• Build strong partnerships with US-based GIPS leaders and align on team priorities and delivery goals.
• Perform a comprehensive assessment of the current Bangalore infrastructure org structure capabilities and roadmaps.
• Identify quick wins and establish near-term focus areas to drive operational impact.

Long-Term Ownership

• Evolve Bangalore into a center of excellence for global infrastructure delivery and operations.
• Build career pathways leadership pipelines and technical depth across GIPS teams in India.
• Drive infrastructure evolution aligned with Rubriks business growth cloud expansion and security posture.
• Shape the future of Rubriks global platform through proactive planning architecture reviews and innovation.

Why Join Us

• Take on a broad and strategic leadership role with high visibility across global teams.
• Help shape the infrastructure strategy for one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies.
• Join a culture that values trust boldness technical excellence and innovation.
• Be part of a leadership team that invests in people platform and long-term vision.