Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, providing critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will play a key role in designing, optimizing, and securing the underlying cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless workload migration and integrating new cloud environments into the ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction of SRE functions for designated teams from architecture definition and test planning through implementation and ongoing operations
• Lead design and development of tooling and processes that improve service delivery at scale: reliability, resiliency, efficiency, visibility, and quality
• Drive adoption of researched, verified, and standardized engineering practices across the teams you support
• Enhance system designs and infrastructure implementations to make them more efficient, standardized, and maintainable
• Take end-to-end ownership of major projects defining architecture, test plans, and implementation and empower others to do the same
• Push for and advocate superior architectural solutions; provide a compelling, data-backed case for change
• Drive transformation and standardization of foundational infrastructure services as the environment evolves and the business grows
• Architect and lead the integration of newly acquired cloud environments into Datavant's infrastructure, ensuring security, reliability, and consistency across an expanding multi-cloud footprint
• Design and implement hybrid-cloud and cross-cloud connectivity strategies to ensure interoperability as M&A activity adds new environments
• Own and evolve the modular network security edge, ensuring it remains flexible enough to unify additional environments while providing a consistent integration testing surface for development teams
• Drive environment consolidation initiatives bringing order to disparate hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and reducing operational fragmentation across the organization
• Collaborate with security, platform engineering, and development teams to ensure newly integrated environments adhere to Zero Trust principles, governance frameworks, and automation-first practices
• Optimize processes, develop policies, and enable secure, self-service infrastructure for engineering partners operating across consolidated environments
• Drive resolution of complex and systemic operational issues without needing guidance
• Lead enhancements and improvements to service delivery practices for all designated teams
• Define and evolve SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget policies across your scope
• Establish and continuously improve on-call practices, incident response processes, and postmortem culture
• Identify opportunities for efficiency gains and actively share that knowledge across the team
• Serve as a mentor to SREs and developers on designated teams guiding technical growth, reviewing work, and raising the engineering bar
• Responsible for the mentorship and growth of SREs within your scope of influence
• Train and lead others on the team in completing complex tasks; delegate effectively and empower others to own architectures and implementations independently
• Drive best practices and standards for SRE functions within designated teams
• Partner deeply with development, security, and platform engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, and operability into the software development lifecycle
• Drive improvements to development processes based on data-driven analysis and team feedback
• Communicate complex engineering challenges and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Leverage AI tools and agents strategically to accelerate delivery and improve team workflows
• Lead the design and implementation of automation that improves platform reliability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency
• Architect and build scalable observability solutions instrumentation strategy, dashboards, alerting, and on-call tooling
• Own Infrastructure as Code standards and practices (Terraform, Ansible) for designated teams, writing IaC that supports simple, secure, and scalable deployments
• Implement policy-based automation (AWS SCPs, Azure Policy) to maintain governance across cloud environments, including newly integrated M&A environments
• Champion CI/CD pipeline improvements that reduce toil and increase delivery confidence

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure architecture
• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, compute, storage, and IAM
• Experience migrating workloads and integrating new cloud environments into existing architectures including M&A-driven consolidation scenarios
• Deep understanding of multi-cloud networking (AWS VPCs, Azure VNets, Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, PrivateLink, DNS, hybrid connectivity)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform and Ansible)
• Strong security knowledge, including IAM, encryption, network security, PKI, certificate management, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, HITRUST, NIST, FedRAMP)
• Experience managing multi-account cloud governance and security policies (AWS Organizations, Azure Policy, SCPs)
• Proven track record of technical leadership owning large, complex projects end-to-end and driving them to completion
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and elevate the technical quality of a team
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the drive to bring clarity to vague situations and a desire to constantly expand your skills
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to describe complex problems to non-technical staff, paired with the curiosity, adaptability, and flexibility needed to navigate a growing enterprise
• Experience leveraging AI agents to accelerate daily workload
• Competency with the following technologies: Compute: AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Kubernetes / containerized workloads at scale, Network security: AWS (VPC, TGW, Peering, SG, ALB, NLB); Azure (VNets, NSG, AGW); NextGen FW, VPN, Storage: Azure Files & Blob, Amazon S3, AWS FSxN, Automation: Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, GitHub, Core: Linux & Windows, DNS / IPAM, Active Directory, Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Log Analytics advanced instrumentation, SLO tooling, alerting strategy, IAM: AWS IAM / IAM Identity Center, Azure Entra ID / RBAC
• Experience driving environment consolidation and integration bringing order to disparate hybrid and multi-cloud architectures as the business grows
• Experience driving technical initiatives end-to-end across multiple teams or organizational boundaries
• Deep knowledge of cloud services, containerization, and/or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of multi-region architecture and disaster recovery strategies
• Background in cloud cost optimization and FinOps methodologies
• Experience with cloud-native identity management (AWS IAM Identity Center, Entra ID, RBAC)
• Track record of building and scaling an SRE practice within a high-growth engineering organization
• Group Policy, PowerShell, CIFS & NFS storage protocols, Palo Alto, F5