Manager- Hybrid Cloud & Virtualization (VMware)

Overview

• Seeking a hands-on Hybrid Cloud & Virtualization Manager to lead enterprise compute across Azure AWS and on-prem VMware environments
• Role focused on secure compliant and cost-optimized infrastructure supporting payer-grade workloads (highly regulated business-critical systems)
• Owns hybrid cloud operations VMware virtualization and enterprise FinOps / consumption governance
• Ideal for environments balancing legacy on-prem investments with modern data/cloud platforms (including Databricks)
• Structured as a contract-to-hire with long-term leadership potential

What Youll Do

• Lead operations across hybrid infrastructure (Azure AWS VMware-based on-prem environments)
• Manage and optimize VMware environments (vSphere ESXi vCenter clusters storage networking)
• Ensure availability performance and resilience of enterprise compute platforms
• Oversee infrastructure spanning on-prem private cloud and public cloud environments
• Establish and enforce compute governance standards and controls across cloud and on-prem
• Drive security compliance and audit readiness aligned to regulated payer environments (PHI HIPAA-type controls)
• Oversee identity access and secure compute posture across hybrid environments
• Own end-to-end FinOps and consumption management across:
  • Azure and AWS cloud usage
  • Databricks / data & analytics workloads
  • VMware on-prem compute (cost per VM cluster application or business unit)
• Leverage tools such as Finout (and native cloud tooling) to:
  • Drive cost visibility and allocation (showback / chargeback)
  • Identify optimization opportunities (right-sizing workload placement)
  • Partner with finance on budget tracking and forecasting
• Support hybrid cloud strategy balancing workloads across environments for cost compliance and performance
• Lead initiatives for automation monitoring and infrastructure standardization
• Partner with application data and security teams on platform reliability and modernization initiatives
• Manage and mentor infrastructure and virtualization engineering teams

What You Bring

• 8 12 years of experience in infrastructure cloud and virtualization leadership roles
• Deep expertise in VMware (vSphere ESXi vCenter)
• Strong experience across hybrid cloud environments (Azure and/or AWS)
• Proven experience managing enterprise compute across on-prem and cloud platforms
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Cloud cost management / FinOps practices
  • Managing consumption for data platforms (Databricks or similar)
  • Building cost attribution models across infra and application layers
• Strong understanding of:
  • Virtualization compute storage and networking
  • Infrastructure security and access controls
  • Backup disaster recovery and high availability
• Experience in regulated industries (healthcare / payer preferred)
• Proven ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally with engineering security and finance

Nice to Have

• VMware certifications (VCP VCAP)
• Cloud certifications (AWS Azure)
• Experience in payer organizations or large healthcare enterprises
• Exposure to automation (Terraform scripting DevOps tooling)
• Familiarity with enterprise cost governance platforms (Finout Apptio CloudHealth etc.)