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Freenome · 3 hours ago

Director, Cloud Infrastructure

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$20K/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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Cloud Infrastructure ManagementKubernetesAutomation ToolsSite Reliability EngineeringMulti-public Cloud AWSMulti-public Cloud AzureMulti-public Cloud GCPRisk ManagementProject ManagementBiotechnology ExperienceStartup Environment ExperienceRegulated Environment ExperienceBig Data ExposureCollaboration Skills

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