VP, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• DNS
• Kubernetes

Benefits

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