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Practice Overview
Skill / Operating Group
Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory
Level
Manager
Location
Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata
Travel
Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100%
Why Technology Consulting
The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:
Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.
Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.
Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Overview
Lead hybrid and multi-cloud architecture workstreams within large advisory and transformation programs, owning the design and delivery of architecture outcomes across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud environments. Act as the primary day-to-day architecture advisor to client VP and Director-level technology stakeholders — running architecture design sessions, facilitating platform trade-off decisions, and maintaining the architecture decision log. Own the detailed design of hybrid cloud reference architectures including private cloud platform configurations (VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix), hyperscaler extension patterns (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, Google Distributed Cloud), and hybrid connectivity designs.
Lead the design of hybrid security architecture for client engagements — developing Zero Trust designs that span on-premises and cloud, IAM and identity federation models, network segmentation across SD-WAN and dedicated interconnects, and encryption frameworks that apply consistently across the full hybrid estate.
Lead multi-cloud FinOps workstreams — building financial governance frameworks that span infrastructure lifecycle and cloud consumption, designing chargeback and showback models across hybrid environments, and identifying cost optimisation opportunities using CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and hyperscaler billing platforms.
Own the IaC and platform engineering architecture across the hybrid estate — defining standards and patterns using Terraform, Ansible, and platform-specific tooling (vRealize Automation, Nutanix Calm), and designing the governance model that ensures consistent infrastructure delivery. Lead the design of unified observability architectures using Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and VMware Aria Operations.
Contribute across adjacent areas — designing hybrid AI infrastructure covering on-premises GPU environments and hyperscaler AI services; providing cloud architecture inputs to Tech Modernization engagements including Kubernetes on hybrid and GitOps patterns; applying resilience architecture patterns to Technology Resiliency workstreams; and advising on ecosystem decisions covering on-premises vendor selection, build-buy-partner choices, and hyperscaler commercial models.
Support business development through proposal contributions, hybrid cloud architecture solutioning, and client presentations. Identify and shape follow-on engagement opportunities. Contribute to reusable assets, reference architectures, and points of view that strengthen the practice's hybrid cloud advisory capability.
Qualifications
Educational Background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline. A Master's degree (MBA, MSc in Cloud Computing, or equivalent) is preferred.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) OR Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) OR Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (at least one)
Other Certifications — Good-to-have
- VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
- Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud
- Red Hat OpenShift Administration
9–14 years of relevant experience in consulting, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology organisations. At least 4 years leading hybrid and multi-cloud architecture workstreams within enterprise advisory or transformation programs, with direct ownership of architecture design and client stakeholder management at VP and Director level.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering hybrid cloud architectures — private cloud platform configurations (VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix), hyperscaler extension patterns (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, Google Distributed Cloud), hybrid connectivity designs (SD-WAN, dedicated interconnects), and workload placement strategies across on-premises and cloud tiers.
Strong experience designing security architecture across hybrid estates — developing Zero Trust designs, IAM and identity federation models (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta), network segmentation across SD-WAN and interconnects, and encryption frameworks that apply consistently across the full hybrid environment.
Experience leading multi-cloud FinOps workstreams — building financial governance frameworks spanning infrastructure lifecycle and cloud consumption, designing chargeback and showback models, and identifying cost optimisation opportunities using CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and hyperscaler billing platforms.
Experience contributing hybrid cloud architecture inputs to adjacent workstreams — designing hybrid AI infrastructure covering on-premises GPU environments and hyperscaler AI services; supporting Tech Modernization engagements with hybrid Kubernetes and GitOps patterns; applying resilience architecture to Technology Resiliency workstreams.
Experience supporting business development — contributing to proposals, solutioning, and client presentations; identifying and shaping follow-on opportunities.
Key Competencies & Skills
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Strong communication and synthesis — able to engage VP and Director-level technology leaders on cloud architecture strategy, design trade-offs, and transformation roadmaps.
Cloud architecture strategy and roadmap development — able to assess current-state cloud estates, identify architecture gaps, define target-state designs, and build pragmatic transformation roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
Structured problem-solving under ambiguity — able to frame cloud architecture challenges, evaluate trade-offs across cost, performance, security, and resilience dimensions, and produce actionable recommendations.
Financial and commercial acumen — able to build cloud business cases, evaluate hyperscaler commercial models, quantify FinOps value levers, and support investment decisions across cloud platform choices.
Business development support — experience contributing to proposals, solutioning, and client presentations; able to identify and shape follow-on opportunities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture — strong working knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and at least one hyperscaler extension pattern (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, or Google Distributed Cloud). Able to own detailed hybrid architecture design and lead design sessions with client technical stakeholders. Working knowledge of at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Cloud security architecture — strong ability to design Zero Trust architectures spanning on-premises and cloud, IAM and identity federation models, network segmentation across SD-WAN and dedicated interconnects, and encryption frameworks applicable across heterogeneous environments.
Cloud FinOps — strong ability to build financial governance frameworks spanning infrastructure lifecycle and cloud consumption, design chargeback and showback models, and identify cost optimisation opportunities using CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and hyperscaler billing platforms.
Infrastructure as code and platform engineering — strong working knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, and at least one platform-specific IaC tool (vRealize Automation or Nutanix Calm); able to define standards and governance patterns across hybrid environments.
Observability architecture — strong ability to design unified observability architectures using Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and VMware Aria Operations across on-premises and cloud layers.
Containers and cloud-native patterns — working knowledge of Kubernetes on hybrid environments (OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE), GitOps patterns, microservices architecture, and cloud-native developer platform design.
AI and agentic AI infrastructure — working knowledge of hybrid AI infrastructure patterns — on-premises GPU environments and hyperscaler AI services; able to design the infrastructure layer that enables AI workloads across hybrid estates and advise on workload placement decisions.
Ecosystem advisory — working knowledge of VMware/Broadcom, Nutanix, Dell, HPE, and hyperscaler partner ecosystems; able to advise on vendor selection, build-buy-partner trade-offs, and commercial model evaluation.
Additional Information
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