Director of Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering (Remote)

We are seeking a Director of Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering who thrives at the intersection of high-level strategy and deep-dive technical execution. This is a combined role designed for a leader who isn’t afraid to open a PR or troubleshoot a production K8s cluster while simultaneously building an infrastructure roadmap. In this role, you will lead a lean, high-output team of engineers. You will spend roughly 50% of your time “on the tools”-architecting core systems and building foundational code-and the remaining time driving the team, setting strategy, and ensuring our platform meets the rigorous security demands of the healthcare industry., (Technical Execution)

• Lead Architect: Act as the primary architect for our cloud environment, personally designing the systems that handle high-volume clinical data and PHI.
• Core Infrastructure Development: Building out CI/CD templates, refining our Kubernetes service mesh, migrating legacy cloud platform to a future PaaS (Platform as a Service) model
• Prototyping & R&D: Rapidly prototype new platform features-such as automated compliance monitoring or developer self-service portals-before handing them off to the team for scaling.
• Tier 3 Escalation: Act as a hands-on escalation point for complex architectural issues or critical production incidents, providing “in-the-trenches” technical leadership.
• Sustain environments: Sustain cloud and platform environments commensurate with “clean” environment, free of vulnerabilities, legacy code, and legacy architecture practices.

(Leadership & Strategy)

• Team Growth: Manage and mentor a specialized team of cloud and platform engineers. Conduct code reviews not just for quality, but as teaching moments to elevate the team’s skill sets.
• Strategic Roadmap: Define the “Platform-as-a-Product” vision, ensuring every technical initiative directly accelerates our product’s time-to-value for healthcare partners.
• Regulatory Governance: Partner with the Security and Compliance teams to automate HIPAA and HITRUST requirements, turning “check-box compliance” into “automated guardrails.”
• FinOps & Budgeting: Oversee the cloud budget with a surgical eye, implementing automated cost-saving measures without sacrificing performance or reliability.
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Experience: 5-8+ years in Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 3-5 years in a leadership role (Lead, Manager, or Director) within a scale-up environment.
• Healthcare Proficiency: Deep, hands-on experience managing infrastructure within HIPAA, HITRUST, or SOC2 environments. You understand that in HealthTech, “done” means “secure and compliant.”
• Scaling Mindset: Experience taking a platform from “early-stage scrappy” to “enterprise-grade robust” with scaling capability.
• Service Mindset: Operate as a direct partner to application engineering and data engineering teams, serving as an expert with cloud capabilities, * Advanced Stack: Expert-level proficiency in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) and Infrastructure as Code for automation.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Mastery of automation tools to create seamless deployment workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of architecting secure network topologies.
• IAM & Governance: Deep understanding of IAM and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce the principle of least privilege across a multi-account organization.
• Cloud FinOps & Observability: Skill in using cloud financial management tooling to balance high performance with budget management.