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# Senior Manager, Private Cloud Operations

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM), Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Systems Integration, Private Cloud Environment, Computer Networking Systems, Fibre Channel, Information Technology, Data Management, Hardware Asset Management, Nutanix, Network Server, Vmware
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/BE9AA49AF86943189178BDE8A224469A/job/

## About the Role

* 7-10+ years of IT infrastructure experience. * 5+ years of people management experience leading technical teams. * 5+ years of data center, private cloud, infrastructure operations, or hardware lifecycle experience. * Proven experience managing and supporting Nutanix environments within a private cloud or data center setting. * Strong technical understanding of servers, compute, storage, backup, networking, and private cloud environments. * Experience managing global or cross-time-zone teams. * Experience with infrastructure capacity planning and lifecycle management. * Strong vendor management experience. * Experience managing budgets and developing business cases for technology investments. * Ability to manage multiple complex technical initiatives simultaneously. * Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to business stakeholders. * Strong leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, and time-management skills. *
Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Management, Computer Information Systems, or a related field. * VMware experience, particularly supporting or transitioning VMware environments. * Enterprise storage experience with technologies such as HPE or Dell/EMC. * Data center management experience. * Experience supporting 10+ data center or infrastructure locations. * Experience with SAN/NAS storage. * Cisco networking and Fibre Channel experience. * Experience with infrastructure monitoring, metrics, and dashboards. * M&A infrastructure discovery or integration experience. * Cloud repatriation strategy experience. * Experience managing large-scale edge compute environments.

## Description

The Senior Manager, Private Cloud Operations will lead a global team responsible for delivering and supporting private cloud and data center services. This role oversees Nutanix and VMware environments, Edge and Data Center Compute, networking, storage, and backup/CyberVault, while also supporting M&A and integration discovery activities. The ideal candidate will bring a combination of strong people leadership, infrastructure expertise, and strategic planning to ensure a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective private cloud environment., * Lead and develop a 13-person global team across the U.S., Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, and Europe. * Oversee private cloud operations across Nutanix, compute, storage, backup, networking, and edge infrastructure. * Support four primary data centers and approximately 150 remote edge compute sites. * Lead capacity planning, infrastructure lifecycle management, hardware refreshes, and cloud repatriation strategy. * Manage approximately $5M-$7M in capital budget for infrastructure and equipment investments. * Develop and present business cases for infrastructure improvements and technology investments. * Manage relationships with infrastructure vendors and technology partners. * Ensure infrastructure resiliency, disaster recovery, redundancy, monitoring, and operational standards. * Lead multiple complex infrastructure initiatives across global locations. * Partner with internal teams and M&A/integration groups on infrastructure discovery and planning. * Drive continuous improvement and
operational efficiency across the private cloud environment. * Lead and collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones, including early-morning coordination, while maintaining an in-office presence Monday through Wednesday in the Houston area. * Communicate technical strategy, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.