About the Role
Title: Senior Manager, IT, Cloud
Location: Remote United States
Full time
Lead a team of cloud engineers and architects to maintain and enhance Edwards Lifesciences’ IT cloud infrastructure.
job requisition id: Req-35363
Job Description:
Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.
Your role will be to own our technical resiliency strategy, interface with our steering committees to present our vision, and track its status across cross-functional teams. You’ll be leading a team of cloud engineers and architects to enhance our IT Cloud Services cloud environments. You’ll utilize your experience in people leadership, development, cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD, resiliency / disaster recovery, and observability. Also, you’ll look beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and creatively resolve complex problems. This is a remote-based role (US-based, West Coast preferred).
How you’ll make an impact:
- Lead a team of cloud engineers and architects to maintain and enhance Edwards Lifesciences’ IT cloud infrastructure.
- Architect, build, and support our cloud infrastructure including automation development, scalability, security, and elasticity.
- Develop best-in-practice automation and infrastructure as code patterns that embed resiliency and fault tolerance into all our core applications.
- Build a high-performing team that has the trust of its stakeholders, partners, and vendors.
- Serve as the subject matter expert and platform owner for all observability tools.
- Participate and maintain an on-call rotation and incident management playbook to support critical services.
- Regularly update our steering committees for risk management, business continuity, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery.
What you’ll need (Required):
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM +10+ years’ experience in an IT or SRE role
- Experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems running in a public cloud environment (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Experience building, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines in a cloud environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in a major industry language (i.e., Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, etc.).
- Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana, Dynatrace, DataDog, etc.
- Extensive experience with public cloud provider services and managing them with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK.
- Extensive experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt.
- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
- Previous experience presenting to and building the trust of senior leaders and c-suite executives.