Medidata is looking to solve the problem of modernizing its infrastructure and shaping future-facing technology capabilities through cloud transformation, enabling innovation, agility, and cost-effective, secure operations across all cloud environments.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Azure, AWS, GCP; certifications like Azure Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Professional Architect preferred.
- Demonstrable knowledge of VMware, SAN, SAN/NAS, fibre channel, virtualization, and private cloud operations.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation), scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python), container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud security and governance frameworks, including identity, cost, and access management.
- Familiarity with compliance regimes relevant to regulated industries such as judicial, healthcare, or finance.
- Prior exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, data engineering workloads, or hybrid work environments.
- Proven capability designing and managing private and public clouds at scale.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a global cloud engineering strategy aligned with business goals.
- Serve as the senior authority in selecting cloud services based on technical, financial, and compliance criteria.
- Collaborate with architects, product, security, and development teams to ensure cohesive integration across cloud environments.
- Direct the architecture, deployment, migration, and lifecycle management of enterprise-wide cloud solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP) and private cloud platforms (VMware, SAN, on-prem).
- Ensure scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective designs using infrastructure-as-code, containerization, hybrid connectivity, and automation.
- Build, develop, mentor, and manage a multi-tiered cloud engineering team (Senior/Mid/Junior Engineers, Cloud Architects).
- Promote best practices in CI/CD, DevOps, site reliability, and cloud-native engineering principles.
Other
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of infrastructure and cloud engineering experience, including leadership roles.
- Exceptional strategic thinker and communicator capable of leading diverse, geographically distributed teams.
- Strong decision-making capabilities balancing business objectives, security, reliability, and cost.
- Mentorship-focused, enabling growth across engineering teams.
