Own the architecture and evolution of Datavant's cloud platform layer: Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, developer self-service capabilities, and workload management
Drive platform convergence across acquisition-inherited environments toward a consistent, well-governed architecture
Establish platform abstractions that enable product engineering teams to ship faster without creating infrastructure sprawl or compliance risk
Own the observability strategy, ensuring monitoring, alerting, and tracing are consistent, actionable, and trusted across all environments
Partner with Security to ensure cloud platform controls satisfy HIPAA, SOC 2, and emerging compliance requirements without creating delivery bottlenecks
Own the SRE function end-to-end: core platform SRE, embedded vertical SRE teams, and the operating model that governs how reliability is delivered across business units
Define and enforce reliability standards, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and on-call practices across a multi-vertical healthcare platform
Lead incident management for infrastructure and platform incidents, ensuring rapid triage, clear escalation, effective resolution, and durable postmortems
Scale the embedded SRE model across Provider, Payer, Life Sciences, and Legal & Insurance verticals with clear ownership boundaries and consistent practices
Drive reliability improvements that are measurable: reduced MTTR, fewer repeat incidents, and increased deployment confidence
Own cloud account governance: account structure, organizational unit design, guardrails, and policy enforcement across AWS, Azure, and any additional cloud environments
Define and enforce network architecture standards: VPC design, routing, peering, transit gateway topology, DNS, VPN, and hybrid connectivity
Establish infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code practices that prevent configuration drift without creating bottlenecks
Oversee physical office infrastructure and data center operations, including ongoing migration and consolidation efforts
Partner with Security on cloud security posture, IAM governance, and infrastructure compliance
Provide executive ownership for Datavant's VDI platforms serving thousands of concurrent users across regulated healthcare workflows
Drive architectural modernization, performance optimization, and capacity planning across multiple VDI technology stacks and cloud providers
Ensure VDI reliability and performance meet the demands of onshore and offshore clinical operations where downtime directly impacts revenue and patient outcomes
Own vendor management and build-vs-buy decisions for end-user compute platforms
Own the infrastructure integration playbook for acquisitions: cloud account onboarding, network connectivity, security baseline enforcement, observability integration, and platform convergence
Build repeatable integration patterns that reduce the marginal cost and risk of each successive acquisition
Partner with Security, Enterprise Engineering, and Technology Operations on post-close infrastructure workstreams
Ensure acquired teams can operate safely and reliably while longer-term platform convergence is executed
Scale infrastructure and SRE capabilities across Datavant's growing international footprint, including established and emerging office locations
Ensure infrastructure architecture and operational practices support global teams without creating regional silos or inconsistent governance
Partner with regional leadership to align hiring, on-call coverage, and operational maturity with business needs
Lead and develop a 50-60+ person organization spanning cloud platform engineering, SRE, core infrastructure, VDI, and FinOps, with a trajectory toward 70-80+
Assess organizational structure and talent against long-term platform demands, making changes where necessary to ensure the right people are in the right roles
Build engineering depth and leadership capacity to reduce single-person dependencies and key-person risk
Establish a culture of architectural ownership, operational discipline, reliability focus, and continuous improvement
Manage vendor and contractor relationships with clear accountability and transition planning
Partner with recruiting to attract and retain senior infrastructure and SRE talent in a competitive market, across multiple geographies.

Requirements

15+ years in technology leadership, with at least 5 years in a VP or senior director role leading infrastructure, cloud engineering, or SRE organizations at scale
Proven experience architecting and operating multi-cloud infrastructure in complex, high-growth environments — ideally through periods of significant M&A activity
Deep understanding of cloud platform engineering: Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and developer platform capabilities
Strong network architecture and cloud governance background, including multi-account management, IAM governance, and infrastructure security in regulated environments
Track record building and scaling SRE functions, including defining SLO frameworks, incident management practices, and embedded reliability models
Experience managing cloud spend at scale ($20M+), including cost attribution, optimization programs, and vendor/contract strategy
Demonstrated ability to consolidate fragmented infrastructure functions — inherited through acquisition or organic growth — into well-governed, scalable operations
Experience operating in regulated or compliance-heavy industries (healthcare, life sciences, or financial services preferred)
Proven ability to build and lead large, geographically distributed engineering organizations
Ability to communicate decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and make definitive architecture calls under ambiguity.

Benefits

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeobservabilitynetwork architecturecloud governanceincident managementSLO frameworkscapacity planningVDI technology

Soft Skills

technology leadershipcommunicationstakeholder alignmentorganizational developmentoperational disciplinecontinuous improvementvendor managementteam buildingstrategic decision-makingcross-functional collaboration