Lead WD鈥檚 enterprise compute strategy and operations across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. Own the architecture, delivery, and optimization of servers, virtualization platforms, data storage platforms, and all IaaS cloud services supporting WD's global operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute compute infrastructure roadmap aligned to business needs, Drive cloud adoption for IaaS and related workloads while optimizing hybrid infrastructure costs
- Technical Ownership: Oversee physical/virtual server estates, VMware/Hyper-V environments, data storage platforms (object, block, file systems), and cloud compute (AWS EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine, etc.)
- Cloud Governance: Establish standards for IaaS/PaaS consumption, FinOps practices, security controls, and architectural patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP plus next-tier providers
- Automation & AI Operations: Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration, implement Agentic AI for predictive maintenance, automated remediation, and intelligent workload optimization
- Observability & Resilience: Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems enabling service self-healing, automated incident response, and sub-30-minute MTTR for critical outages
- Operational Excellence: Ensure always-on availability for mission-critical systems, Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance optimization
- Business Partnership: Serve as trusted technology advisor to business unit leaders, Translate technical capabilities into business value, Align infrastructure investments to revenue and operational objectives
- Colocation & Facilities Management: Oversee relationships with colocation providers, Optimize rack space, power, and connectivity, Manage contract negotiations and SLA compliance
- Team Development: Build and mentor a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers, cloud architects, storage administrators, and expert operations analysts
- Vendor Management: Negotiate enterprise agreements with hyperscalers, colocation providers, and hardware vendors
- Modernization: Drive containerization, hyperconverged infrastructure implementation and adoption, and AI/ML infrastructure initiatives