Director Cloud and Platform Manager

Job Description

 Appealing Points

• Be at the forefront of transforming hosting platforms across both public cloud and on-premises environments. You will drive a highly visible program to migrate existing Azure public cloud workloads and improve the security control framework, in partnership with global teams.
• Enable AI-enabled operations by using AI to generate and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automate quality assurance, and speed up incident resolution through intelligent correlation of alerts, incidents, and change records. This helps reduce MTTR, improve root-cause analysis, and recommend remediation actions.
• Shape the future of infrastructure operations by combining platform engineering, automation, AI, and operational excellence to deliver a scalable, resilient, and developer-centric platform.

Annual Salary: 12 Million Yen and above

Job Description

The Cloud and Platforms Manager is accountable for the operational stability, resilience, security, and performance of Microsoft Azure based public cloud and on-premises application hosting platforms. The role also provides the platform strategic roadmap, financial governance, and people leadership. This ensures reliable platform services, technology currency, robust risk management, and continuous improvement. The role partners closely with other IT groups, including global security teams, to maintain secure, well-governed platforms aligned with the firm's standards and policies.

The role is expected to drive radical standardization and automate the end-to-end lifecycle of the platform. The goals are to reduce manual effort and operational errors, improve agility in platform delivery, and achieve more consistent and auditable outcomes across platforms.

Job Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project delivery and BAU operations for the Microsoft Azure public cloud and the application hosting platform in on-prem datacenters.
• Manage the team's operating budget, including capacity planning, cost forecasting, vendor/license spend, and identifying cost optimization opportunities across cloud and on-prem estates.
• Standardize end-to-end lifecycle automation for provisioning, post-build configuration, software package deployment, patching, restarts, and decommissioning across public cloud and on-prem servers.
• Own people management for the team, including hiring, performance management, career development, coaching, and workload/resourcing across the former Azure and server sub-teams.
• Ensure 24x7 L2/L3 operational coverage for the hybrid cloud platform, partnering with the Command Center (L1) on incident triage, escalation, and communications to stakeholders.
• Define and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and automation guardrails to reduce manual toil and improve consistency, reliability, and security posture across the hybrid estate.
• Partner with application, security, and enterprise architecture teams to align the infrastructure roadmap, platform capabilities, and automation standards with the broader technology strategy.
• Report on project status, BAU health, budget performance, and platform consolidation progress to senior IT leadership, with clear risk, issue, and decision summaries.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience, including hands-on or leadership experience across both public cloud (Microsoft Azure) and on-prem server environments (Windows Server and/or Linux/RHEL).
• Proven people management experience, having directly managed a technical team of 10+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Experience managing project delivery, BAU operations, and team/departmental budgets in a large (the JD text ends here).

 Language Proficiency: Business-level Japanese (N2 or equivalent) and Business Level English

Company Description:

We are a technology-led software services company that fulfills technology companies' software product development needs worldwide. As a trusted partner of today’s enterprises, we build software solutions for the future. We aim to understand our customers' needs and aspirations to deliver software that aligns with their vision. We are passionate about creating future-ready software focusing on superior user experience and ultimate simplicity.Specializing in mobile, web, and cloud-based software development services across various industry verticals, we cater to customers globally. We focus on developing next-generation software products that require a deep understanding of communication networks, operating system internals, device diversity, and critical system resources. Our core strength lies in combining these engineering environments to create cutting-edge software solutions.