IT Cloud Planning Expert

Position Objective Lead the strategic planning, capacity forecasting, and continuous evolution of enterprise IT cloud infrastructure across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Translate business and application requirements into scalable infrastructure plans, technology roadmaps, CAPEX/OPEX budgets, and investment strategies. Drive cloud modernization, workload migration, infrastructure optimization, and AI infrastructure planning while ensuring technology decisions align with business objectives, operational resilience, lifecycle requirements, and long-term cost efficiency. Job Description & Responsibilities: • Multi-Cloud Capacity Planning: Lead short-, medium-, and long-term capacity planning across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, aligning infrastructure resources with business demand and application growth. • Technology Roadmap & Lifecycle Management: Develop cloud infrastructure roadmaps covering platform modernization, technology refresh, consolidation, standardization, and end-of-life management across VMware, Red Hat, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms. • Infrastructure Budgeting & Investment Planning: Own CAPEX/OPEX forecasting, annual budgeting, multi-year investment planning, and business-case development, including total cost of ownership (TCO), cost-benefit analysis, and infrastructure optimization. • Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Assessment: Evaluate compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, automation, and cloud management platforms to ensure scalability, performance, resilience, and technical feasibility. • Hyperscaler Integration & Migration Strategy: Define workload placement, cloud adoption, migration, and repatriation strategies across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, private cloud, and edge environments, considering security, connectivity, data sovereignty, latency, and cost. • AI Infrastructure Planning: Assess infrastructure requirements for AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI workloads, including GPU capacity, high-performance networking, storage, power, deployment models, and associated cost economics. • Cloud Financial Management & Optimization: Drive FinOps practices, cloud consumption analysis, resource utilization optimization, unit-cost modelling, and chargeback/showback mechanisms to improve infrastructure efficiency and financial accountability. • Strategic Transformation & Modernization: Lead initiatives involving cloud modernization, infrastructure consolidation, platform standardization, automation, sustainability, and technology simplification to improve operational efficiency and long-term scalability. • Vendor & Commercial Management: Lead technical and commercial evaluations, RFI/RFP processes, proof-of-concept assessments, infrastructure sizing reviews, licensing evaluations, and vendor negotiations to ensure optimal technology selection and investment value. • Risk, Resilience & Lifecycle Planning: Assess infrastructure dependencies, capacity risks, technology obsolescence, performance constraints, disaster recovery requirements, and platform lifecycle risks to maintain service continuity and support future growth. • Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Management: Prepare strategic recommendations, investment proposals, capacity forecasts, benchmarking reports, and management presentations, translating complex technical requirements into actionable business decisions. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with enterprise architecture, infrastructure operations, application, cybersecurity, finance, procurement, and business teams to align cloud strategy, capacity plans, investment priorities, and transformation initiatives. Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. A master’s degree or relevant professional certifications in cloud computing, infrastructure, or enterprise architecture is an advantage. • 15+ years of experience in IT cloud infrastructure, data center infrastructure, virtualization, capacity planning, or enterprise infrastructure strategy. • Multi-Cloud Expertise: Strong knowledge of private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. • Cloud & Virtualization Platforms: Expertise in VMware, Red Hat OpenShift/OpenStack/Virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud management platforms. • Infrastructure Capacity Planning: Proven experience in demand forecasting, capacity modelling, resource utilization analysis, infrastructure sizing, and long-term capacity expansion planning. • Budgeting & Financial Planning: Strong experience in CAPEX/OPEX budgeting, multi-year investment forecasting, TCO analysis, unit economics, business-case development, and FinOps. • Cloud Migration & Modernization: Experience in workload placement, cloud migration strategies, infrastructure consolidation, platform modernization, and technology lifecycle management. • AI Infrastructure Planning: Understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI infrastructure requirements, including GPUs, high-performance networking, storage, and AI infrastructure economics. • Vendor & Commercial Management: Experience in RFI/RFP processes, vendor evaluations, licensing models, procurement, infrastructure sizing reviews, and commercial negotiations. • Strategic Leadership & Communication: Strong analytical, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and presentation skills, with the ability to develop technology roadmaps, assess infrastructure risks, and translate technical requirements into executive-level investment recommendations. 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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. A master’s degree or relevant professional certifications in cloud computing, infrastructure, or enterprise architecture is an advantage. 15+ years of experience in IT cloud infrastructure, data center infrastructure, virtualization, capacity planning, or enterprise infrastructure strategy.

Multi-Cloud Capacity Planning: Lead short-, medium-, and long-term capacity planning across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, aligning infrastructure resources with business demand and application growth. Technology Roadmap & Lifecycle Management: Develop cloud infrastructure roadmaps covering platform modernization, technology refresh, consolidation, standardization, and end-of-life management across VMware, Red Hat, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms. Infrastructure Budgeting & Investment Planning: Own CAPEX/OPEX forecasting, annual budgeting, multi-year investment planning, and business-case development, including total cost of ownership (TCO), cost-benefit analysis, and infrastructure optimization. Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Assessment: Evaluate compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, automation, and cloud management platforms to ensure scalability, performance, resilience, and technical feasibility. Hyperscaler Integration & Migration Strategy: Define workload placement, cloud adoption, migration, and repatriation strategies across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, private cloud, and edge environments, considering security, connectivity, data sovereignty, latency, and cost. AI Infrastructure Planning: Assess infrastructure requirements for AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI workloads, including GPU capacity, high-performance networking, storage, power, deployment models, and associated cost economics. Cloud Financial Management & Optimization: Drive FinOps practices, cloud consumption analysis, resource utilization optimization, unit-cost modelling, and chargeback/showback mechanisms to improve infrastructure efficiency and financial accountability. Strategic Transformation & Modernization: Lead initiatives involving cloud modernization, infrastructure consolidation, platform standardization, automation, sustainability, and technology simplification to improve operational efficiency and long-term scalability. Vendor & Commercial Management: Lead technical and commercial evaluations, RFI/RFP processes, proof-of-concept assessments, infrastructure sizing reviews, licensing evaluations, and vendor negotiations to ensure optimal technology selection and investment value. Risk, Resilience & Lifecycle Planning: Assess infrastructure dependencies, capacity risks, technology obsolescence, performance constraints, disaster recovery requirements, and platform lifecycle risks to maintain service continuity and support future growth. Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Management: Prepare strategic recommendations, investment proposals, capacity forecasts, benchmarking reports, and management presentations, translating complex technical requirements into actionable business decisions. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with enterprise architecture, infrastructure operations, application, cybersecurity, finance, procurement, and business teams to align cloud strategy, capacity plans, investment priorities, and transformation initiatives.