Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Executive with 20+ years of experience owning the reliability, security, and evolution of enterprise platforms at global scale. Accountable for a 40+ person multi disciplinary organization spanning SRE, DevOps, Observability, Database, and Application Modernization Teams. Trusted executive counterpart to CIO and C level stakeholders, recognized for balancing delivery velocity, cost efficiency, and risk while translating cloud strategy into measurable business outcomes across multi cloud environments.
As the Head of Cloud Infrastructure, I lead a dynamic and innovative organisation responsible for the seamless integration, optimization, and management of our organization’s cloud infrastructure. My role is pivotal in ensuring that our cloud environments are efficient, secure, and aligned with the latest industry standards and trends. • Accountable for cloud infrastructure and platform outcomes across AWS and Azure, including availability, security posture, cost governance, and architectural consistency for business critical platforms. • Acted as strategic advisor to the CIO, owning cloud decision frameworks and defining architectural guardrails aligning engineering execution with enterprise risk, financial objectives, and long term scalability. • Served as final architecture authority through risk based Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), preventing non compliant designs while accelerating time to approval and reducing friction for product teams. • Owned cloud security risk posture, leading the replacement of legacy HSM patterns with FIPS aligned AWS key management architectures, materially reducing regulatory, operational, and cryptographic risk exposure across Tier 1 environments. • Architected and deployed an enterprise-grade FinOps AI Assistant using AWS Bedrock, integrated directly into MS Teams. Enabled stakeholders to query complex cloud financial data via natural language, resulting in a 60% reduction in static dashboard reliance (Cloudability) and a significant increase in financial transparency. • Established the enterprise's first Cloud-Agnostic Agentic AI Governance Framework. Defined architectural guardrails, security protocols, and ethical standards for autonomous agents, ensuring scalable and compliant AI adoption across multi-cloud environments. • Enabled executive decision making through real time cost and performance transparency, driving proactive optimization and financial accountability across the multi cloud portfolio.
Strategic and key role in managing, maintaining and transforming End-to-End SoftwareONE organization's IT business services through Cloud technology. Advocating a holistic DevOps mindset with Agile Project Methodologies in leading teams and managing Cloud Infrastructure for all cloud-native services. • Established SLO driven reliability governance and error budget policies as a management system for platform teams, enabling consistent, business aligned decisions on risk, investment, and delivery velocity. • Defined and executed the internal Cloud Strategy Plan, accelerating analytics adoption and standardizing cloud consumption patterns across the organization. • Embedded security and compliance controls directly into delivery pipelines via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps practices, reducing manual intervention and audit friction. • Acted as Product Owner for core cloud capabilities using SAFe, aligning stakeholder expectations with sustainable engineering velocity and platform reliability.
Lead a high-performance cross-functional team by increasing developer productivity, follow best practices for architecture, security, cost management and maintaining a consistent cloud platform. This cloud journey is possible by developing team skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps • Led global cloud adoption initiatives across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, partnering with enterprise architecture and security teams to modernize regulated and business critical workloads. • Established the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) from scratch to prepare the organization for its cloud journey, defining governance models, operating principles, and enablement frameworks that standardized cloud adoption across teams. • Delivered 33% annual infrastructure cost savings by owning the design and rollout of a multi cloud landing zone with integrated governance, security baselines, and financial controls. • Enabled onboarding of 60+ high impact scientific and analytics workloads through structured technical assessments, platform readiness reviews, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Develop and deliver hosting solutions to meet growing demand for agile and cost-effective computing solutions by implementing scalable and high performance hosting solutions in VMWare. Additionally, plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to new technologies including complex solutions like infrastructure Disaster Recovery. - Reduced global system incidents by 74% across enterprise hosting environments by implementing advanced analytics and root-cause analysis frameworks. - Accelerated infrastructure delivery by 30% for global VMware hosting through the development and deployment of automated cluster provisioning tools. - Optimized resource planning and cost efficiency for the global virtual services portfolio by designing and developing custom in-house management tools.
Responsible on identifying, designing, creating and maintaining process on HP Service Manager through HPSM Workflows for Virtual Services. Accountable for maintaining qualification of the IT infrastructure ensuring Systems are audit compliance ready. Identifying, costing and processing according to project plan. Manage VMware infrastructure components across the organization ensuring high efficiency and high performance. Key achievement: - Datacenter Move project in Basel successfully executed to allow building demolition. - Significant VMWare license cost reduction by developing own capacity planning tool tailored for organization demand.
- Responsible for defining Technical Instructions and procedures. - Deliver necessary system tuning to maintain optimum performance levels. - Liaise with external vendor service provider to communicate and resolve problems. - Turn business requirements into solutions and procedures through meetings, customer and technical requirements.
- Configure, implement and Manage Database infrastructure (SQL Server) as DBA. - Keep the business up and running. Supporting Windows components to achieve high availability and performance of business applications (800 servers – 24/7). - Identify and implement resolution and workarounds for problems raised.
- Analyze, define and implement projects within the company. - Develop web portals by consolidating several travel agents web portals. - Web Services installation, configuration and maintenance