VP Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Job Description

This position will lead the transition toward a cloud-first infrastructure model, manage internal engineers and external vendors, and maintain reliable infrastructure services in a highly regulated, 24x7 financial-services environment.

The VP will also establish the infrastructure foundation for near-term initiatives involving AI-driven development, modern data platforms, enterprise data lake capabilities, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

Responsibilities

Cloud Strategy and AWS Architecture

• Define and execute the cloud infrastructure strategy, roadmap, architecture standards, and operating model.

• Own the design of enterprise AWS environments, including Landing Zones, multi-account structures, VPC and connectivity, IAM, security controls, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Lead cloud migration, modernization, re-platforming, and infrastructure transformation programs.

• Remain hands-on in architecture reviews, technical design decisions, proofs of concept, critical incidents, and engineering standards.

Infrastructure Operations and Governance

• Lead infrastructure operations supporting mission-critical services in a 24x7 environment.

• Establish governance for cloud security, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, monitoring, incident management, change management, and operational documentation.

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for major infrastructure and cloud incidents.

• Own cloud cost management, forecasting, optimization, tagging, and show back / chargeback practices.

Vendor and Team Leadership

• Lead and develop cloud, infrastructure, platform, and operations personnel while maintaining clear engineering accountability.

• Manage cloud providers, MSPs, systems integrators, consultants, and strategic technology partners.

• Own vendor performance through contracts, statements of work, SLAs, KPIs, service reviews, financial controls, risk management, and escalations.

• Require vendors to comply with enterprise architecture, information security, regulatory, documentation, and operational standards.

Azure Virtual Desktop and End-User Computing

• Provide architecture and operational oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop and related enterprise VDI services.

• Guide design decisions involving Entra ID / Active Directory integration, network and security architecture, FSLogix profile management, golden images, application delivery, capacity, performance, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Manage vendors or MSPs supporting virtual desktop and end-user computing services.

AI and Data Platform Enablement

• Partner with application, data, security, and architecture teams to define cloud infrastructure foundations for AI-driven development.

• Support infrastructure architecture for data lake, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI use cases.

• Evaluate cloud services and engineering patterns that enable secure, scalable, and governed innovation.

• Based on changes in the business work environment, job responsibilities can change, and removed accordingly. Additionally, this position will perform other duties as required, and participate in special projects as deemed necessary and appropriate by Management.

Minimum Skills & Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree.

Experience : 8-10 years of enterprise infrastructure, cloud engineering, or architecture experience, including significant leadership responsibility.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale AWS environments and serving as an architecture or technical design authority.

• Deep expertise in AWS Landing Zones, multi-account design, networking, IAM, security, monitoring, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.

• Proven experience leading cloud migration, modernization, or infrastructure transformation programs.

• Proven ability to manage infrastructure or cloud engineering teams while remaining actively involved in technical design and escalation.

• Proven vendor-management results involving MSPs, cloud providers, systems integrators, or consulting partners, including SLA/KPI oversight, service reviews, delivery governance, escalation, contract or SOW management, and financial accountability.

• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in a 24x7 production environment.

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, technical judgment, and documentation skills.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $160K- $185K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. Additionally, our Employee Benefit Program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement and savings plan, educational assistance and training programs, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation New York Branch ("MUTB-NY") is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

If you are interested in applying, please provide your resume to: View email address on ziprecruiter.com.