Position Details
Job Title: Cloud and Data Platform Operations Lead
Function/Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced operations leader to head the Cloud and Data Platform Operations function out of Chubb's engineering centre in India. This is an Operations Leadership role — the successful candidate will own the 24/7 availability, reliability, and performance of Chubb's enterprise cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data platforms hosted on these hyperscalers.
This role leads a globally distributed, follow-the-sun operations team spanning APAC, EMEA, and the Americas, ensuring continuous 24/7 coverage with no gaps across time zones. You will be the senior escalation point for critical production incidents at any hour, driving rapid resolution and systematic prevention.
Alongside operational accountability, you will champion engineering discipline within the team — driving automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), DevSecOps practices, and data platform optimization to reduce toil, improve resilience, and support safe, frequent delivery.
Candidates should note: this role carries material out-of-hours responsibility. If you are seeking a primarily engineering or architecture role without significant operational accountability, this position is not the right fit.
Key Responsibilities
1. 24/7 Operations & Service Reliability
Own end-to-end production operations for cloud infrastructure and data platforms, ensuring systems meet availability, performance, and SLA commitments around the clock.
Serve as the senior escalation point for critical incidents — leading response, coordination, and communication across technical teams and executive stakeholders, regardless of time zone.
Establish and maintain on-call rotas, escalation procedures, and runbooks across the globally distributed team to ensure no single point of failure in operational coverage.
Drive post-incident reviews (PIRs) and root cause analysis (RCA), translating findings into preventative engineering improvements and updated operational playbooks.
Define and track operational KPIs — MTTR, MTTD, change failure rate, system availability — and report these clearly and regularly to senior leadership.
2. Follow-the-Sun Team Leadership
Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing, globally distributed operations team across multiple time zones (APAC, EMEA, Americas), ensuring seamless handoffs and continuous 24/7 operational coverage.
Build and enforce structured shift handover processes so that context, active incidents, and work-in-progress are reliably transferred between regional teams without information loss.
Foster a strong operational culture: disciplined on-call practice, blameless post-mortems, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of operational standards.
Mentor team members across regions, balancing local autonomy with consistent global standards and escalation paths.
Partner across cross-functional engineering, security, and business groups to align operational delivery with executive timelines and organizational priorities.
3. Incident, Problem & Change Management (ITSM)
Own the full ITIL/ITSM lifecycle using ServiceNow: Incident, Problem, Change, and Request Management for all cloud and data platform services.
Lead Major Incident Management for P1/P2 disruptions — coordinating response bridges, managing stakeholder communications, and driving resolution with urgency and clarity.
Drive the Problem Management process: identify recurring incidents, prioritize root cause elimination, and track remediation to closure.
Govern the Change Management process, ensuring all production changes are reviewed, risk-assessed, and scheduled to minimize operational disruption.
4. Multi-Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Design, build, and operate secure, highly available, and scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with a focus on operational manageability and resilience.
Deliver automated, reusable platform components and self-service templates (modular IaC via Terraform/Bicep) to reduce manual operational toil and improve consistency.
Implement robust CI/CD pipelines with embedded security and quality gates (DevSecOps), supporting safe and frequent production deployments.
Coordinate vendor relationships, manage cloud costs under a FinOps framework, and ensure platform components meet operational standards before production deployment.
5. Data Platform Operations & Spend Optimization
Operate and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data models supporting underwriting algorithms and analytics workloads — with a focus on production reliability and data quality.
Manage and optimize Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse Analytics environments: cluster sizing, job scheduling, performance tuning, and cost governance.
Operate and maintain Astronomer (managed Apache Airflow) for pipeline orchestration — ensuring DAG reliability, SLA adherence, and efficient resource utilization across workflow runs.
Enforce data lifecycle policies, monitor consumption, and maintain strict production readiness standards for Lakehouse and data warehouse platforms.
Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance controls are embedded into operational processes, not treated as afterthoughts.
6. Stakeholder Management & Operational Reporting
Translate operational performance — availability metrics, incident trends, cost data, platform health — into clear, actionable insights for non-technical executives and corporate underwriting leadership.
Manage stakeholder expectations proactively: communicate planned maintenance, emerging risks, and incident impact with transparency and appropriate urgency.
Act as the operational voice in delivery planning, ensuring engineering teams understand production constraints, operational readiness requirements, and go-live criteria before releases.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience: 15–20 years of progressive, hands-on experience across cloud operations, platform engineering, infrastructure, or data engineering — with a significant portion in production operations roles.
24/7 Operations Experience: Demonstrated experience owning or leading production operations in a 24/7, always-on environment. Comfort with being an escalation point for critical incidents outside business hours is essential.
Follow-the-Sun Leadership: Proven track record managing and coordinating a geographically distributed team operating across multiple time zones, with structured handover processes and continuous coverage models.
ITSM & Incident Management: Thorough, hands-on knowledge of ITIL/ITSM frameworks. Functional fluency with ServiceNow for Incident, Problem, Change, and Request management. Experience leading Major Incident bridges.
Multi-Cloud Technical Stack: Deep proficiency in native services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including container orchestration, networking, identity, and multi-cloud landing zone design.
DevSecOps & Automation: Solid background building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and reusable IaC (Terraform, Bicep), with security and compliance embedded in the delivery process.
Data Engineering & Platform Management: Proven experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting enterprise data platforms built on Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) in production. Hands-on familiarity with Astronomer (managed Apache Airflow) for pipeline orchestration at scale.
FinOps & Cost Management: Practical experience designing data lifecycle policies and applying cost optimization strategies (autoscaling, spot instances, storage tiering, Snowflake warehouse sizing) to govern ADLS, Synapse, Databricks, and Snowflake spend.
Stakeholder Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — able to translate complex operational and technical information into clear, concise executive-level reporting under pressure.
Domain Context: Prior experience in the insurance or financial services sector, with an understanding of data compliance, high-availability infrastructure requirements, and privacy controls, is strongly advantageous.
Nice to Have
Industry-recognized cloud certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect.
ITIL Foundation or higher certification; practical experience applying ITIL principles in a live operations environment.
ServiceNow certifications (Certified System Administrator, Certified Implementation Specialist – ITSM).
Experience running on-call rotations and structured operational handovers in a global, distributed team.
Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles: SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and reliability-driven development practices.
Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core or Advanced: Data Engineer) or Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional.
Experience with Astronomer/Airflow administration: deployment, DAG lifecycle management, Celery/Kubernetes executor configuration, and alerting.
Experience with AI-assisted operations tooling and its application in enhancing platform reliability and reducing mean time to detect.
Background in regulated or high-compliance industries (insurance, financial services, healthcare).
Soft Skills
Calm and decisive under pressure — able to lead major incident response without losing structure or clarity.
Proactive communicator: surfaces risks early and keeps stakeholders informed without being asked.
Collaborative mindset: builds trust across time zones, cultures, and functions.
Ownership mentality: takes accountability for outcomes, not just activities.
Strong coaching instinct: invests in the growth of team members across regions.
What Success Looks Like
Production systems maintain target availability SLAs around the clock with no regional coverage gaps.
Critical incidents are resolved rapidly, with structured RCAs and verified preventative actions in place.
The follow-the-sun team operates with disciplined handovers, shared runbooks, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Operational KPIs (MTTR, MTTD, change failure rate) trend positively quarter over quarter.
Engineering improvements — automation, IaC, observability — measurably reduce manual toil and incident recurrence.
Cloud and data platform spend is optimized and transparently reported against FinOps targets.
Senior stakeholders receive clear, timely operational reporting and are never surprised by production issues.
Why Join Us?
Be at the forefront of digital transformation in the insurance industry.
Lead impactful initiatives that simplify claims processing and enhance customer satisfaction.
Work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative, innovation-driven environment.
Why Chubb?
Join Chubb to be part of a leading global insurance company!
Our constant focus on employee experience along with a start-up-like culture empowers you to achieve impactful results.
Industry leader: Chubb is a world leader in the insurance industry, powered by underwriting and engineering excellence
A Great Place to work: Chubb India has been recognized as a Great Place to Work® for the years 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026
Laser focus on excellence: At Chubb we pride ourselves on our culture of greatness where excellence is a mindset and a way of being. We constantly seek new and innovative ways to excel at work and deliver outstanding results
Start-Up Culture: Embracing the spirit of a start-up, our focus on speed and agility enables us to respond swiftly to market requirements, while a culture of ownership empowers employees to drive results that matter
Growth and success: As we continue to grow, we are steadfast in our commitment to provide our employees with the best work experience, enabling them to advance their careers in a conducive environment
Employee Benefits
Our company offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and professional growth. Employees enjoy flexible work options, generous paid time off, and robust health coverage, including treatment for dental and vision related requirements. We invest in the future of our employees through continuous learning opportunities and career advancement programs, while fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our benefits include:
Savings and Investment plans: We provide specialized benefits like Corporate NPS (National Pension Scheme), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), Retiral Benefits and Car Lease that help employees optimally plan their finances
Upskilling and career growth opportunities: With a focus on continuous learning, we offer customized programs that support upskilling like Education Reimbursement Programs, Certification programs and access to global learning programs.
Health and Welfare Benefits: We care about our employees’ well-being in and out of work and have benefits like Hybrid Work Environment, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Yearly Free Health campaigns and comprehensive Insurance benefits.
Join Us
With you Chubb is better. Whether you are solving challenges on a global stage or creating innovative solutions for local markets, your contributions will help shape the future. If you value integrity, innovation, and inclusion, and are ready to make a difference, we invite you to be part of Chubb India’s journey.
Apply Now: https://www.chubb.com/emea-careers/
