BioSpace · 15 hours ago
Director, Cloud Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$197K/yr - $304K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Provide direct, strategic and tactical leadership to your department
Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives
Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice
Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution
Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results)
Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment
Ensure budgets, resourcing and timelines meet company requirements
Empowers department to take calculated risks and make mistakes as a team but collectively learn from these experiences, ensuring institutional knowledge is retained and applied in the future
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, using trial and error to thoughtfully iterate towards the best solution balancing time and resource constraints
Anticipate factors that could cause issues that have departmental or cross-functional impact and formulates preventive strategies
Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback
Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly
Provide consistent communications to key functional and cross-functional stakeholders on progress and updates
Guides department in effective communication and collaboration, avoiding triangulation or churn and fostering direct communication
Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results, adapting to diverse communication styles
Build and maintain strong, healthy relationships with cross-functional peers
Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting, presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings
Lead by example, integrate and reinforce our Values and Principles as much as possible
Coaches and provides guidance to direct reports to foster our Values and Principles across departments
Recognizes Values and Principles gaps in your department on an ongoing basis and implement solutions and creates opportunities to grow in those areas
Actively identifies internal transfer and growth opportunities, empowering team members to pursue them
Perform quarterly talent reviews
Addresses performance issues with direct, constructive and actionable feedback
Provides inspiration and leads department towards the company mission, vision, and culture
Gives direction and organizational clarity in roles and responsibilities to execute on department and company OKRs more effectively
Effectively cascades organizational strategy and contributes to the development of organizational procedures
Actively involved in recruitment, attracting and retaining top talent to build high performing teams
Qualification
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Required
BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
5+ years of experience in engineering leadership and management
3+ years of infrastructure experience with a track record of building and deploying infrastructure as part of a high-functioning team
Multi-public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services, networking, security
Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructure-as-code techniques as a key strategy for managing infrastructure
Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
Proven expertise in building high performance teams
A demonstrated ability to structure, grow, and optimize a team for execution, including attracting top talent and filling in gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth
Experience with project management and prioritization, risk management, problem-solving, and resource planning
Excellent verbal and written communication skills up, down, and peer to peer
Strong leadership and collaboration skills
Preferred
Experience in biotechnology, bioinformatics, regulated software, or similar field
Experience in a startup environment
Experience leading teams in a highly regulated environment
Experience leading teams developing infrastructure as part of a Medical Device
Exposure to big data, especially biological and clinical data
Benefits
Pre-IPO equity
Cash bonuses
Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits
Company
BioSpace
BioSpace is the leading online community for industry news and careers for life science professionals.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$10M2000-08-24Series B· $10M
Leadership Team
J
Joshua Goodwin
CEO and President
K
Kristin Jones
Chief Revenue Officer
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