Cloud Practice Head
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About the Role
Lead cloud infrastructure services, manage delivery teams, engage clients, and drive cloud transformation with expertise in public, private, and hybrid environments.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the Cloud Infrastructure Services practice, including strategy, delivery, service quality, and team performance
- Own the design, delivery, and optimisation of cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise clients
- Work closely with customers to understand business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, and cost effective cloud solutions
- Lead cloud migration and transformation programmes from legacy/on premise environments to public, private, or hybrid cloud platforms
- Manage and develop teams across cloud architecture, engineering, operations, and support
- Oversee service delivery performance, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to client expectations
- Provide strategic guidance to clients around cloud adoption, infrastructure modernisation, cost optimisation, security, and operational resilience
- Ensure cloud environments follow best practice across availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Support the development of cloud service offerings, pricing models, proposals, and go to market initiatives
- Partner with sales and account teams to identify growth opportunities within existing and new client accounts
- Manage practice level budgets, utilisation, profitability, and operational reporting
- Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, automation, governance, and service quality
Requirements
- Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure services, including public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
- Proven leadership in managing cloud delivery teams and enterprise client engagements
- Experience leading large scale cloud transformation and migration programs
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to manage practice level budgets and profitability
- Excellent strategic thinking and client advisory skills
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Job Overview
- We are supporting a leading technology services organisation with the appointment of a Practice Head Cloud Infrastructure Services to lead the growth and delivery of its cloud and infrastructure business in Riyadh.
- This is a senior leadership role for an experienced cloud infrastructure professional who can combine technical depth, service delivery leadership, client engagement and commercial awareness.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for shaping cloud infrastructure offerings, leading delivery teams, managing enterprise client engagements and ensuring the successful execution of large scale cloud transformation programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Cloud Infrastructure Services practice, including strategy, delivery, service quality and team performance.
- Own the design, delivery and optimisation of cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise clients.
- Work closely with customers to understand business and technical requirements, then translate these into secure, scalable and cost effective cloud solutions.
- Lead cloud migration and transformation programmes from legacy/on premise environments to public, private or hybrid cloud platforms.
- Manage and develop teams across cloud architecture, engineering, operations and support.
- Oversee service delivery performance, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to client expectations.
- Provide strategic guidance to clients around cloud adoption, infrastructure modernisation, cost optimisation, security and operational resilience.
- Ensure cloud environments follow best practice across availability, performance, security, disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Support the development of cloud service offerings, pricing models, proposals and go to market initiatives.
- Partner with sales and account teams to identify growth opportunities within existing and new client accounts.
- Manage practice level budgets, utilisation, profitability and operational reporting.
- Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, automation, governance and service quality.
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