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 the APAC virtualization platform strategy & roadmap (VMware, RedHat Open Shift, Hyper-V, VCF, hybrid cloud integration).

• Support the Regional Virtualization Team Lead in maintaining the regional Product Owner model across design, build, operate, and risk activities.

• Drive regional standardization and simplification of hosting and virtualization platforms.

• Drive automation to reduce toil and enhance controls

• Align platform roadmap with business, regulatory, and transformation priorities (e.g., regionalization programs).

Engineering and SRE

• Own the enterprise engineering standards for virtualization and hosting platforms (compute, hypervisor, storage integration).

• Establish and govern reference architecture, design standards, and engineering controls.

• Lead modernization initiatives (VMware upgrades, cloud integration, automation, VCF adoption).

• Ensure platforms meet HA/DR, performance, and security design requirements.

Operations and Service Management

• Provide executive oversight for 24x7 platform operations across APAC.

• Ensure stability, availability, capacity, patching, and lifecycle management of virtualization environments. 1

• Lead major incident management, escalations, and cross-tower coordination. 2

• Drive automation-first operations (Ansible, PowerShell, IaC).

Observability & SRE Enablement

• Establish an observability-first operating model (metrics, logging, tracing).

• Drive adoption of SRE practices (SLO/SLA, error budgets, resilience engineering).

• Improve operational visibility using platforms such as Dynatrace / Splunk / equivalent.

Risk, Security and Audit

• Ensure platforms are secure and compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g., MAS, internal audit).

• Own vulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and security posture.

• Lead audit engagements and ensure audit-ready evidence and controls.

• Govern privileged access and platform identity controls.

Regionalization and Transformation

• Drive migration of branch workloads to regional platforms (hosting consolidation).

• Lead capacity optimization and cost discipline (CAPEX/OPEX governance).

• Standardize operating models across APAC branches (patching, monitoring, DR, automation).

Stakeholder and Governance Management

• Act as senior escalation point for virtualization and hosting domains.

• Partner with application, middleware, network, security, and cloud teams.

• Present platform health, risks, roadmap, and investment proposals to EXCO / SteerCo.

• Ensure alignment with enterprise 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 in infrastructure / virtualization platforms, with 5 years in leadership roles.

• Experience in VMware ecosystem, Hyper-V, hybrid cloud integration.

• Experience in virtualization infrastructure, DR/BCP, and automation frameworks.

• Understanding regulated 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 and platform product leadership

• Strong governance, risk, and compliance orientation

• Executive communication & stakeholder influence

• Data-driven decision-making & cost optimization

• Operational resilience and crisis leadership

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.