Alibaba Cloud to hire 5,000 technology talent this fiscal

BENGALURU: Alibaba Cloud, a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, on Tuesday said it aims to hire 5,000 technology talents globally till the end of the financial year, in areas including network, database, servers, chips and artificial intelligence (AI).

The company did not specify the number of people it would hire in India but it is expected to be significant as Alibaba Cloud has two data centres in India.

As part of its India focus, Alibaba Cloud also has a channel program in conjunction with HCL Infosystems and Ingram Micro under which it works with local channel partners to offer cloud solutions to India’s enterprises, small and medium businesses, and startups.