Director of Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Cloud Account Architecture & Governance
• Own cloud account strategy: account structure, organizational unit design, guardrails, and policy enforcement across AWS and any additional cloud providers
• Define and enforce infrastructure guardrails (service control policies, permission boundaries, configuration baselines) that prevent configuration drift without creating bottlenecks
• Own cloud landing zone architecture and ensure it scales for organic growth, new product lines, and M&A integration
• Partner with Security to align cloud governance with healthcare compliance and audit requirements
• Network Architecture & Connectivity
• Own enterprise network architecture: VPC design, routing, peering, transit gateway topology, and DNS across all cloud accounts and regions
• Own VPN, edge routing, and hybrid connectivity: including site-to-site tunnels, remote access, and connectivity to partner and acquired environments
• Establish network segmentation standards that support zero-trust principles without slowing delivery teams
• Drive network performance monitoring and capacity planning to ensure connectivity scales ahead of demand
• Physical Office Infrastructure
• Oversee physical office infrastructure across Datavant locations: network, connectivity, meeting room technology, and lifecycle management
• Establish refresh cadences and reliability standards appropriate for a healthcare company handling sensitive data
• VDI & End User Compute Oversight
• Provide senior leadership for Datavant's virtual desktop platforms serving thousands of concurrent users across regulated healthcare workflows
• Manage and develop the Manager, End User Compute (VDI), ensuring clear SLAs, architectural direction, and operational maturity
• Own escalation and executive communication for VDI incidents affecting business operations
• M&A Integration
• Own the infrastructure integration playbook for acquisitions - cloud account onboarding, network connectivity, DNS integration
• Build repeatable integration patterns that reduce the marginal cost and risk of each successive acquisition
• Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering, Security, and Enterprise Engineering on post-close infrastructure workstreams
• Team Leadership & Development
• Build and lead the infrastructure engineering organization, including the Manager, End User Compute (VDI) and engineers focused on cloud foundations, networking, and physical infrastructure
• Establish operational processes, runbooks, on-call rotations, and knowledge management that reduce single-person dependencies
• Manage vendor and contractor relationships - network providers, cloud support agreements, managed service partners - with clear performance accountability
• Deep experience in building and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with engineering, security, finance, and vendor partners to ensure clear requirements, proactive communication, and seamless collaboration across all cloud infrastructure initiatives

Requirements

• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or network engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing infrastructure teams
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud environments at scale: account architecture, VPC design, IAM governance, multi-account management (Control Tower, Organizations, or equivalent)
• Strong netw

Benefits

Additional Information

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world's health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient's request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health. By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. The Director of Infrastructure owns the foundational control plane that enables every engineering team: cloud account architecture, network design, connectivity, physical office infrastructure, and virtual desktop environments. Today, these responsibilities are split across Cloud Platform Engineering and application-layer platform work. This role clarifies ownership: the Director of Infrastructure is accountable for control-plane governance (cloud foundations, network architecture, infrastructure guardrails, and physical infrastructure), while Cloud Platform Engineering is accountable for implementing and operating platform capabilities on top of those foundations. This is not a governance-only role. The Director will remain hands-on through architecture ownership, design reviews, and escalation leadership for foundational cloud and network decisions, while building the team and standards required to operate at scale in a regulated healthcare environment.

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