Job Specifications
We are seeking a Senior Director, Cloud Platform & Operations to lead the transformation of our technology foundation from customer-specific and legacy operating models into a standardized, cloud-native SaaS platform, primarily built on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform strategy, cloud engineering, and operational excellence. It is a hands-on leadership role for a leader who can drive meaningful change at scale while maintaining high levels of reliability, security, and compliance in a regulated environment.
The Director will be accountable for modernizing how platforms and operations enable the business—improving delivery speed, developer experience, and system resilience without compromising service quality or regulatory obligations. This role will also oversee the desktop and cloud services teams on internal employee support as well (laptops,
Duties:
Own platform reliability, availability, performance, and scalability across production and non-production environments
Establish and evolve SRE-aligned practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and proactive reliability engineering
Drive adoption of self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that improves speed and quality
Eliminate manual processes by embedding operational knowledge, controls, and compliance into platforms and automation
Lead the evolution from customer-specific and legacy deployments to a standardized, multi-tenant SaaS platform on AWS
Define and execute a cloud platform strategy that supports scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and rapid product delivery
Leadership of existing Desktop, Cloud Architecture and Hardware teams onsite, who provide excellent service to internal employees and new hires on laptops, workstations, etc
Requirements:
10+ years of experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure, or operations roles, including team leadership experience
Collaborate and lead Operations, Desktop and Infrastructure teams onsite in the Tampa office at least 3 days per week.
Deep hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Terraform/CloudFormation)
Proven success leading cloud-native transformations at scale
Strong experience with automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps/SRE practices
Demonstrated ability to operate in regulated environments, preferably healthcare or life sciences
Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence across functions
Use of AI tools in technology (Gemini, Claude, etc) is a big PLUS.
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