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