Corient is hiring a Head of Infrastructure Engineering and Operations to lead the end-to-end strategy, design, and operation of our infrastructure. You will be responsible for our cloud platforms, data platform foundations, monitoring, and reliability tooling, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and resilient to support business growth and acquisitions.
What You'll Do
- Own the end-to-end strategy, design, and operation of Corient’s infrastructure, including cloud platforms, data platform foundations, monitoring, and reliability tooling.
- Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, observable, and resilient across growth and acquisition scenarios.
- Drive standardization to accelerate scale while allowing flexibility for business or regulatory needs.
- Provide senior leadership and oversight for data platform engineering, including data pipelines and foundations.
- Establish clear ownership boundaries between data platform engineering, analytics, and infrastructure.
- Partner with Data & Analytics leaders to support growth, M&A integration, and regulatory data requirements.
- Lead cloud engineering, including architecture standards, security controls, access governance, FinOps, and scalability.
- Oversee DevOps tooling and automation to enable safe, repeatable deployments.
- Partner with enterprise platforms, data, and security teams on integration and modernization initiatives.
- Establish and grow Corient’s reliability engineering functions, including observability, monitoring, capacity management, and incident enablement.
- Ensure systems are observable end-to-end with actionable signals for fast diagnosis and incident prevention.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes.
- Develop and own incident response playbooks, escalation paths, and after-action reviews.
- Own disaster recovery and business continuity across infrastructure and data platforms.
- Partner with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, and business leaders to sequence infrastructure investments and tradeoffs.
- Ensure infrastructure decisions align with regulatory requirements, risk management standards, and audit expectations.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing cloud, data engineering, and SRE teams.
- Define clear ownership boundaries and operating models across engineering and operations functions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and calm execution under pressure.
- Translate technical outcomes into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, data, cloud, or platform engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading data engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure platforms, and reliability or SRE functions in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (with a preference for Azure), enterprise infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience designing operating models across multiple engineering disciplines (cloud, data, SRE).
- Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure through growth and M&A while maintaining stability and security.
- A calm, credible leader with a track record of earning trust from senior engineers and executive stakeholders.
Technical Stack
- Azure
Team & Environment
You will partner with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, and business leaders.
Benefits & Compensation
- 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
- Four Medical Plan options generously subsidized by Corient
- Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
- Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter & Transit FSA
- Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
- Training Reimbursement
- Paid Professional Designations
- Giving back to the community - Volunteer days
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.
