Cloud and Identity Manager

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
The Manager, Cloud & Identity is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and governance of the organization’s Azure cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on cost management (FinOps), automation, and scalable cloud operations. This role leads the evolution of Azure as a self-service, secure, and cost-efficient platform, enabling application teams to rapidly consume cloud resources while maintaining enterprise controls. Identity services across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Silverfort serve as foundational capabilities that enable secure cloud access, automation, and Zero Trust enforcement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITES:

Azure Cloud Platform Management (Primary Focus)

• Own day-to-day operations and strategic improvement of enterprise Azure environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Lead Azure platform architecture, including landing zones, networking, shared services, and management group design.
• Establish and enforce Azure governance standards, including RBAC, Azure Policy, tagging, naming conventions, and security baselines.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to enable cloud migrations, refactoring, and modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for Azure platform incidents, driving root cause analysis and preventive improvements.

Cloud Financial Management (FinOps)

• Lead Azure FinOps practices, ensuring cloud spend transparency, accountability, and optimization.
• Define and enforce cost allocation models, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback mechanisms.
• Monitor Azure consumption and spend, proactively identifying opportunities for:
  • Rightsizing
  • Reserved Instances / Savings Plans
  • Storage and data lifecycle optimization
  • Idle and orphaned resource cleanup
• Partner with finance and business stakeholders to forecast cloud costs and align budgets to business demand.
• Produce regular cloud cost and optimization reports for leadership.

Cloud Automation & Self-Service Enablement

• Drive automation-first cloud operations, reducing manual effort and increasing deployment consistency.
• Lead development of standardized, reusable Azure blueprints/modules using:
  • Bicep / ARM templates
  • PowerShell
  • Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Enable self-service resource provisioning for application teams through approved templates and pipelines.
• Establish guardrails to ensure self-service deployments remain secure, compliant, and cost-controlled.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices across cloud teams.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence