Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud

Sr. Director of Infrastructure, Data Center, Cloud

Description -

Reports To

VP, Employee & Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)

Position Summary

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

Infrastructure & Data Center Strategy

• 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.

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