Director, Cloud Infrastructure

Summary

Join Freenome, a high-growth biotech company developing tests to detect cancer using a standard blood draw. We are seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our Infrastructure team and provide strategic leadership to your department.

Requirements

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership and management
• 3+ years of infrastructure experience with a track record of building and deploying infrastructure as part of a high-functioning team
• Multi-public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services, networking, security
• Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructure-as-code techniques as a key strategy for managing infrastructure
• Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Proven expertise in building high performance teams
• A demonstrated ability to structure, grow, and optimize a team for execution, including attracting top talent and filling in gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth
• Experience with project management and prioritization, risk management, problem-solving, and resource planning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills up, down, and peer to peer
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Provide direct, strategic and tactical leadership to your department
• Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives
• Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice
• Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution
• Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results)
• Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment
• Ensure budgets, resourcing and timelines meet company requirements
• Empowers department to take calculated risks and make mistakes as a team but collectively learn from these experiences, ensuring institutional knowledge is retained and applied in the future
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, using trial and error to thoughtfully iterate towards the best solution balancing time and resource constraints
• Anticipate factors that could cause issues that have departmental or cross-functional impact and formulates preventive strategies
• Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback
• Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly
• Provide consistent communications to key functional and cross-functional stakeholders on progress and updates
• Guides department in effective communication and collaboration, avoiding triangulation or churn and fostering direct communication
• Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results, adapting to diverse communication styles
• Build and maintain strong, healthy relationships with cross-functional peers
• Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting, presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings