Cloud & Compute SRE Lead (Governance & Operations Manager)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud & Compute SRE Lead to drive operational governance, reliability, and cloud infrastructure excellence across enterprise-scale environments. This leadership role is ideal for professionals who have extensive experience managing multi-cloud infrastructure, leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, implementing automation strategies, and ensuring operational resilience.

The successful candidate will oversee Business-As-Usual (BAU) operations while driving continuous improvement through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, automation, FinOps, and operational governance.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Operations & Governance

• Define, implement, and govern SLA, SLO, and SLI frameworks across enterprise cloud platforms.
• Lead cloud financial management (FinOps), including cost optimization and resource utilization.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security standards, governance policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships and operational tooling lifecycle.

Site Reliability & Incident Management

• Act as Incident Commander during critical production incidents.
• Lead Post Incident Reviews (PIRs) and drive corrective actions.
• Own Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, business continuity planning, and failover testing.
• Perform capacity planning and infrastructure forecasting.

Automation & Engineering Excellence

• Drive automation initiatives to eliminate manual operational tasks.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu/Ansible).
• Build governance guardrails using policy-as-code and automated compliance.
• Standardize enterprise observability using monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms.

Team Leadership

• Lead daily operations, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and Kanban execution.
• Manage 24x7 on-call rotations and follow-the-sun support models.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, or SRE teams.
• Strong experience managing enterprise-scale AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.
• Experience with enterprise operational governance and cloud service management.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) preferred.