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Practice Overview
Skill / Operating Group
Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory
Level
Senior 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
Own and lead large-scale hybrid and multi-cloud architecture advisory programs for enterprise clients — setting the overall hybrid architecture vision, platform strategy, and governance approach across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environments. Serve as the executive trusted advisor to CTO, CIO, and senior technology leaders on hybrid cloud strategy, platform choices (VMware Cloud Foundation vs Nutanix vs hyperscaler-managed), and workload placement decisions. Define the target-state hybrid architecture including private cloud platform design, hyperscaler extension patterns, and unified governance frameworks.
Shape the hybrid security architecture stance for client engagements — setting Zero Trust principles across the full hybrid estate, defining hybrid IAM and identity federation models (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta), network segmentation strategy spanning SD-WAN, ZTNA, and dedicated interconnects, and encryption frameworks that apply consistently across on-premises and cloud environments.
Define the multi-cloud FinOps strategy for client hybrid estates — setting financial governance models that span on-premises infrastructure lifecycle costs and cloud consumption, using tooling such as VMware CloudHealth and Apptio Cloudability alongside hyperscaler-native billing platforms. Own the investment decision framework for platform refresh, cloud migration, and hybrid extension choices.
Set the IaC and platform engineering standards across the hybrid estate — defining governance and tooling choices (Terraform, Ansible, vRealize Automation, Nutanix Calm), and architectural patterns that work consistently across VMware, Nutanix, and hyperscaler environments. Own the observability architecture strategy, defining unified monitoring frameworks using Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and VMware Aria Operations.
Beyond core hybrid architecture, shape how the practice engages across adjacent areas — defining the hybrid AI infrastructure strategy covering on-premises GPU environments, private cloud AI stacks, and hyperscaler AI services (SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI); setting the hybrid cloud substrate that Tech Modernization and Technology Resiliency colleagues build upon; and leading ecosystem advisory covering VMware/Broadcom, Nutanix, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and hyperscaler partner landscape.
Lead business development activities including RFP and RFI responses, solutioning for large hybrid cloud architecture and transformation programs, client presentations at CTO/CIO level. Shape and evolve hybrid cloud architecture advisory offerings, reference architectures, and methodologies that strengthen the practice.
Build practice capability through asset development, methodologies, and points of view.
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, particularly when paired with deep experience in cloud architecture advisory and enterprise technology strategy.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – 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
14+ years of relevant experience in consulting, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology organisations. At least 6 years leading hybrid and multi-cloud architecture strategy and advisory engagements for enterprise clients, with a demonstrated track record of executive-level advisory, program leadership, and practice development.
Proven experience owning the end-to-end hybrid architecture vision for large transformation programs — setting target-state designs spanning on-premises private cloud (VMware, Nutanix), colocation, and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and governing architecture quality across delivery teams.
Deep experience shaping security posture across hybrid estates — defining Zero Trust frameworks that span on-premises and cloud, hybrid IAM and identity federation strategies, SD-WAN and ZTNA network segmentation models, and encryption frameworks that apply consistently across heterogeneous environments.
Experience defining and owning multi-cloud FinOps strategy — building financial governance models that span infrastructure lifecycle costs and cloud consumption using CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and hyperscaler billing platforms; owning the investment decision framework for platform refresh, migration, and hybrid extension choices.
Experience leading cross-capability hybrid cloud programs spanning AI infrastructure (on-premises GPU environments and hyperscaler AI services), application modernisation on hybrid Kubernetes platforms, and technology resiliency across heterogeneous estates.
Demonstrated experience advising clients on hybrid AI infrastructure strategy — defining workload placement decisions for AI training and inference across on-premises GPU environments, private cloud stacks, and hyperscaler AI services (SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI).
Demonstrated track record leading business development — shaping RFPs, building commercial relationships with hyperscaler and on-premises vendor ecosystems, driving account growth, and developing hybrid cloud advisory offerings that differentiate the practice.
Key Competencies & Skills
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Executive presence, storytelling, and synthesis — able to advise CTO, CIO, and CFO-level stakeholders on cloud architecture strategy, platform choices, and investment decisions, translating technical complexity into clear strategic narratives.
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 and solutioning leadership — experience shaping RFP responses, leading large solutioning efforts, and building cloud advisory propositions that differentiate the practice in the market.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture — expert-level mastery of VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T), Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV, Prism, Flow), Red Hat OpenShift, and hyperscaler extension patterns (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, Azure Stack HCI, Google Distributed Cloud). Able to define hybrid architecture standards, govern platform choice decisions, and set the target-state design for complex heterogeneous estates. Working knowledge across all three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Cloud security architecture — expert ability to define Zero Trust frameworks that span on-premises and cloud, hybrid IAM and identity federation strategies (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, CyberArk), SD-WAN and ZTNA network segmentation models, and encryption frameworks applicable across heterogeneous environments.
Cloud FinOps — expert ability to define multi-cloud FinOps strategies spanning infrastructure lifecycle costs and cloud consumption, set financial governance models, and own investment decision frameworks for platform refresh, migration, and hybrid extension choices using CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, and hyperscaler billing platforms.
Infrastructure as code and platform engineering — expert advisory fluency across Terraform, Ansible, vRealize Automation, Nutanix Calm, and hyperscaler-native IaC tooling; able to set IaC governance standards across heterogeneous environments.
Observability architecture — expert ability to define unified observability strategies across hybrid estates using Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and VMware Aria Operations alongside hyperscaler-native monitoring tools.
Containers and cloud-native patterns — deep knowledge of Kubernetes across hybrid (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, RKE2), GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), microservices architecture, and cloud-native developer platform design; able to advise on hybrid platform engineering strategy.
AI and agentic AI infrastructure — expert advisory knowledge of hybrid AI infrastructure design — on-premises GPU environment strategy, private cloud AI stacks, and hyperscaler AI services (SageMaker, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI); able to define workload placement frameworks for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference across hybrid estates.
Ecosystem advisory — deep knowledge of VMware/Broadcom, Nutanix, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and hyperscaler partner ecosystems; able to advise clients on build-buy-partner decisions, vendor rationalisation, and commercial model evaluation across on-premises and cloud landscapes.
Additional Information
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