Cloud Strategy & Operations Head

Cloud Strategy & Operations Head Location: Bangalore Experience Required: 12 16 Years Employment Type: Full-Time ________________________________________________________________________________________ About Zybisys Zybisys is a technology company that helps banks, financial institutions, and FinTech businesses build and run secure, reliable, and high-performance technology platforms. We work closely with some of India's leading stock brokers to manage their cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, platform operations, and observability. With deep expertise in the Capital Markets domain, we focus on simplifying complex technology, improving operational resilience, and helping our customers innovate with confidence. Job Description The Cloud Strategy & Operations Head is a senior hands-on technical leadership role within the Zybisys Managed Cloud Services practice. The role owns the architecture, build, automation, and ongoing operations of a complex multi-region Azure cloud environment integrated with an on-premises datacenter in a hybrid model serving both business-critical application workloads and enterprise employee services. This is not a purely governance or managerial position. The ideal candidate is an experienced cloud architect and MSSP practitioner who leads from the front capable of designing infrastructure, building automation pipelines, deploying and managing enterprise platforms, defining observability strategy, and governing managed services delivery while engaging directly with the client as Zybisys's primary technical owner. Key Responsibilities Platform Architecture & Build Architect and lead the build of multi-region Azure cloud infrastructure integrated with on-premises datacenter environments in a hybrid topology. Design end-to-end infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, identity (Azure AD, ADFS, hybrid directory), and connectivity layers for both business and employee workloads. Define platform standards, configuration baselines, and architecture blueprints; own Azure build planning and environment design from inception through steady-state operations. Plan and oversee Azure landing zone design, subscription governance, management groups, and policy frameworks aligned with enterprise requirements. Lead capacity planning, infrastructure right-sizing, and ongoing resource optimisation across cloud and on-premises layers. Networking, Security & Traffic Management Design and manage hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN network topologies spanning multi-region Azure and hybrid datacenter connectivity (ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site VPN). Deploy and manage Azure-native and marketplace-based firewall solutions, Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Application Gateways, Azure Load Balancers, and Azure Front Door for traffic management and application delivery. Implement and govern Azure API Gateway and API Management for application exposure and traffic control. Deploy and manage Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) for clean, filtered internet egress and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) for secure internal application connectivity. Configure and manage Palo Alto NGFW, Trend Micro EDR, and CyberArk PAM implementing security baselines and change configurations per client infosec policy directives. Observability, Monitoring & APM Design and implement a comprehensive observability strategy covering infrastructure, application, network, and security telemetry layers across all managed environments. Deploy and manage Prometheus and Grafana stacks for real-time metrics collection, dashboard visualization, and alerting across cloud and hybrid environments. Implement sFlow and NetFlow monitoring for network traffic analysis, bandwidth utilization, and anomaly detection across datacenter and Azure network paths. Evaluate, recommend, and deploy Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions; integrate APM data into the unified observability framework for application-layer visibility. Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and custom KQL alert rules; establish noise-reduced alerting, correlation rules, and escalation matrices. Define and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and incident playbooks for all priority categories; own SLA adherence and drive RCA discipline for major incidents. Automation, DevOps & CI/CD Readiness Champion an automation-first operations culture auto-remediation workflows, self-healing runbooks, scheduled maintenance automation, and event-driven provisioning. Implement IaC practices using Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates, or Bicep for all infrastructure provisioning and configuration management workf .