Head – Cloud CoE (Cloud Engineering, xOps & AI Ops)

ABOUT PRATITIPratiti Technologies is a Pune-headquartered product-engineering company with offices in Austin and Dubai. We partner with Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India to build software, data and Applied AI capability.THE ROLEWe are growing our Cloud Centre of Excellence covering five practices: Cloud & Modernisation Platform Engineering & DevSecOpsSRE & ObservabilityFinOps, including FinOps for AIAI Ops (MLOps, LLMOps, AgentOps) The CoE works across Azure, AWS, GCP and Databricks. As COE head you will set the charter, build the team, launch the offers and win the business. WHAT YOU WILL DORefine the CoE’s offerings, reference architectures and standards, and launch the new offers within 90 daysPartner with our sales team on GCC pursuits; own solutioning, estimates and the technical winTurn first engagements into long-term managed services and dedicated teamsTake AI workloads from pilot to production with strong evaluation, observability, guardrails and cost controlBuild reusable accelerators for cloud cost, platform engineering and AgentOpsHire and grow practice leads and architects; own the competency and certification programmeBuild our hyperscaler and Databricks partnerships, including partner tiers and co-sellWHAT YOU BRING15–20 years in cloud engineering, with 5+ years building or leading a cloud, DevOps or platform practice in IT services or product engineeringA track record of owning pipeline and revenue, not only deliveryAn architect- or expert-level certification on Azure, AWS or GCP — and you are still hands-on enough to whiteboard a landing zone or review TerraformProduction depth in Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code, SRE and FinOpsReal exposure to running ML or GenAI workloads in production (MLOps / LLMOps)Experience with hyperscaler partner programmesYou use AI tools in your own work and expect your team to as wellGOOD TO HAVECertifications across multiple clouds, FinOps Certified Practitioner, CKA or DatabricksExperience leading a platform or cloud team inside a GCCExposure to industrial or engineering-software environments