Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud

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VP Employee & Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)

HP is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Sr. Director of Infrastructure Data Center Cloud & FinOps to lead the modernization operational excellence financial governance and lifecycle management of enterprise infrastructure platforms and services. This role is responsible for driving enterprise-wide infrastructure strategy across on-premises data centers cloud platforms hosting environments core infrastructure engineering and cloud financial operations (FinOps).

The Sr. Director will lead globally distributed teams responsible for infrastructure reliability scalability automation optimization and operational efficiency while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology priorities cybersecurity requirements and financial targets. This leader will partner closely with architecture security application engineering finance procurement and business stakeholders to enable resilient cost-effective and scalable infrastructure services.

This role requires a strong combination of technical depth operational leadership financial acumen vendor management expertise and transformational leadership.

Key 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.

Cloud Platform Leadership

• 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.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• 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.

Operational Excellence

• 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.

Leadership & Talent Development

• 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.

Vendor & Partner Management

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Business or related field.

• 12 years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure cloud operations data center management or platform engineering.

• 7 years leading global technical teams and large-scale enterprise infrastructure operations.

• Deep expertise across enterprise infrastructure domains including compute storage virtualization networking cloud platforms and operational tooling.

• Strong experience leading hybrid cloud environments and cloud transformation programs.

• Proven experience building or leading FinOps cloud optimization or infrastructure financial governance programs.

• Experience managing large operational budgets technology vendors and strategic sourcing initiatives.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure security governance compliance and resiliency frameworks.

• Demonstrated success driving operational transformation automation and service modernization initiatives.

• Excellent executive communication stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Technology Engineering Business Administration or related discipline.

• Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Azure Solutions Architect Google Cloud Professional Architect ITIL FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent.

• Experience operating within large global enterprise environments.

• Experience implementing AIOps observability infrastructure automation or platform engineering practices.

• Knowledge of DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.

• Experience supporting regulated or highly secure enterprise environments.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinking and enterprise mindset

• Operational excellence and execution discipline

• Financial and business acumen

• Transformational leadership

• Collaboration and influence

• Customer and employee focus

• Data-driven decision making

• Change leadership and organizational development

Success Metrics

• Infrastructure availability and service reliability

• Cloud cost optimization and FinOps maturity

• Operational efficiency and automation adoption

• SLA/SLO achievement and incident reduction

• Infrastructure modernization progress

• Employee engagement and talent retention

• Vendor performance and cost management

• Security and compliance adherence

Why HP

At HP we are redefining how infrastructure cloud platforms and employee technology services enable innovation and business transformation globally. This role provides an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise infrastructure strategy while leading large-scale modernization operational excellence and financial optimization initiatives across a global organization.

Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties skills responsibilities knowledge etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is$200150to$280250USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location job-related knowledge skills and experience.

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