Vice President, Virtualization Engineering & SRE

The Vice President (VP), Regional Virtualization Architect&Operations is responsible for supporting the Regional Virtualization Team Lead in the architecture, engineering governance and operational oversight of virtualization and hosting platforms across APAC.

The role contributes to platform strategy, modernization, resiliency, audit readiness and operational excellence, ensuring that regional virtualization platforms remain secure, scalable, stable and aligned with ASO–TIS standards and business priorities.

The role works closely with infrastructure, application, middleware, network, security, cloud and branch technology teams to support regional standardization, transformation and service improvement initiatives.

Job Responsibilities Platform Strategy and Governance

• Execute theAPAC virtualization platform strategy & roadmap(VMware, RedHat Open Shift, Hyper-V, VCF, hybrid cloud integration).
• Support the Regional Virtualization Team Lead inmaintainingtheregional Product Owner modelacross design, build, operate, and risk activities.
• Driveregional standardization and simplificationof hosting and virtualization platforms.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and enhance controls
• Align platform roadmap withbusiness, regulatory, and transformation priorities(e.g., regionalization programs).

Engineeringand SRE

• Own theenterprise engineering standards for virtualization and hosting platforms(compute, hypervisor, storage integration).
• Establish and governreference architecture, design standards, and engineering controls.
• Leadmodernization initiatives(VMware upgrades, cloud integration, automation, VCFadoption).
• Ensure platforms meetHA/DR, performance, and security design requirements.

Operations and Service Management

• Provide executive oversight for24x7 platform operations across APAC.
• Ensurestability, availability, capacity, patching, and lifecycle managementof virtualization environments.
• Leadmajor incident management, escalations, and cross-tower coordination.
• Driveautomation-first operations(Ansible, PowerShell,IaC).

Observability & SRE Enablement

• Establish anobservability-first operating model(metrics, logging, tracing).
• Drive adoption ofSRE practices(SLO/SLA, error budgets, resilience engineering).
• Improve operational visibility using platforms such asDynatrace / Splunk / equivalent.

Risk, Security and Audit

• Ensure platforms aresecure and compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g., MAS, internal audit).
• Ownvulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and security posture.
• Leadaudit engagements and ensure audit-ready evidence and controls.
• Governprivileged access and platform identity controls.

Regionalization and Transformation

• Drivemigration of branch workloads to regional platforms(hosting consolidation).
• Leadcapacity optimization and cost discipline (CAPEX/OPEX governance).
• Standardizeoperating models across APAC branches(patching, monitoring, DR, automation).

Stakeholder and Governance Management

• Act asseniorescalationpointfor virtualization and hosting domains.
• Partner withapplication, middleware, network, security, and cloud teams.
• Presentplatform health, risks, roadmap, and investment proposalsto EXCO /SteerCo.
• Ensure alignment withenterprise architecture and risk governance forums.

Platform Coverage

• Virtualization:VMware (vSphere,ESXi, VCF), Hyper-V
• Hosting:On-prem compute, converged / hyperconverged infrastructure/Power-store
• Cloud Integration:Azure / AWS hybrid workloads
• Supporting Layers:Storage, backup, DR, automation, observability

Job Requirements

• 12 years of experience ininfrastructure / virtualization platforms, with 5 years in leadership roles.
• ExperienceinVMware ecosystem, Hyper‑V, hybrid cloud integration.
• Experience invirtualization infrastructure, DR/BCP, and automation frameworks.
• Understandingregulated financial environments (security, compliance, audit).
• Certifications relevant to virtualization platforms (VMWARE, Azure, etc.)
• Must know automation frameworks like Ansible and must know CI/CD
• Advanced Automation skills via Terraform, PowerShell etc,. are a must
• Strategic thinking andplatform product leadership
• Stronggovernance, risk, and compliance orientation
• Executive communication & stakeholder influence
• Data-driven decision-making & cost optimization
• Operational resilience and crisis leadership

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