Publicis Sapient is a leading digital transformation partner, helping established organizations reimagine their future in a digitally enabled world. We empower businesses to evolve—both in how they operate and how they serve their customers—by combining a start-up mindset with modern methods and deep industry expertise. Our approach fuses strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity to unlock real business value. With over 20,000 professionals across 53 global offices, we bring together the best of technology, data science, and human insight to design and build the products and services that people truly value. Driven by our purpose—helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next—a shared commitment to innovation, collaboration, and continuous transformation unites us. At Publicis Sapient, we don’t just adapt to change—we lead it.
Overview
About the Client:
Our client is a global B2B leader in electrical products, solutions, and services, operating across 170+ companies worldwide. They are undergoing a multi-year digital transformation to deliver a seamless omnichannel experience by modernizing platforms, scaling operations, and integrating data and AI to enhance customer engagement. This role supports a major platform engineering initiative, part of a transitional modernization bridge that will evolve into a unified digital ecosystem.
As a Cloud Infrastructure Manager, you will lead the strategic direction, implementation, and optimization of our client’s cloud and DevOps capabilities within a large-scale platform engineering initiative. You will be responsible for guiding technical teams in designing, securing, and automating infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities—driving best practices in DevSecOps, ensuring compliance through Infrastructure as Code, and enabling operational excellence through robust CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with architects, engineers, and stakeholders across globally distributed teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud solutions that directly support a multi-year digital transformation.
Your Impact:
· Lead the evolution of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines by embedding security-first principles across all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
· Architect and oversee the provisioning of cloud-native tools to automate Ops, enhance scalability, and reduce manual overhead
· Ensure infrastructure consistency, compliance, and traceability by driving adoption of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
· Champion the implementation of DevOps practices
· Collaborate closely with solution architects, DevOps engineers, and Agile delivery teams to embed security and performance from inception to deployment
· Define, track, and communicate DevOps KPIs to measure adoption, impact, and areas for continuous improvement
· Serve as a technical leader and change agent, driving a culture of automation, security, and operational excellence across product teams
· Own the strategic optimization of infrastructure performance and security across multi-cloud environments, leveraging tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO) and ArgoCD
· Contribute to and influence platform engineering strategy, supporting cross-functional alignment and long-term innovation initiatives
· Act as a subject mater expert in all thing Cloud Engineering architecture
Responsibilities
Your Skills & Experience:
· 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or mentorship capacity
· Strong communication skills in English (C1+ level), with the ability to interface directly with stakeholders, clients, and globally distributed teams
· Deep experience in securing CI/CD pipelines, including the integration of policy-as-code and vulnerability management tools
· Hands-on mastery of Terraform, Azure ADO, and ArgoCD, with a focus on scalable automation and compliance
· Demonstrated ability to define and report on DevOps metrics and KPIs tied to risk reduction, velocity, and reliability
· Experience influencing and collaborating with cloud architects, security leads, and Agile squads
· A growth mindset with the ability to mentor engineers and evangelize best practices across teams and regions
Qualifications
Set Yourself Apart With:
· Proven success managing or operating in multi-cloud environments, especially with Azure and GCP
· Experience delivering results in enterprise-scale Agile organizations with 50+ teams
· Hands-on leadership in cloud migration, digital modernization, or infrastructure platforming projects
· A track record of influencing DevOps maturity across complex delivery ecosystems
· Proven ability to guide teams through ambiguity and rapid organizational change
Additional information
A Tip from the Hiring Manager:“This is a leadership role for someone who thrives in complexity, builds trust through expertise, and inspires teams to think boldly in cloud and DevOps transformation.”
