Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - VDI

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with deep VDI expertise to play a key role in designing, optimizing, and securing the underlying infrastructure that powers our organization’s cloud environments. As we continue to transform, consolidate, and evolve our cloud environments, this role will be instrumental in architecting scalable, secure, automated, and resilient infrastructure, ensuring seamless workload migration, and integrating new cloud environments into our ecosystem.

With a focus on core cloud infrastructure, including networking, VDI, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, and cross-cloud integrations, you will collaborate closely with peers in infrastructure, security, and other areas of the platform engineering team to ensure our cloud environment adheres to best practices, governance frameworks, and automation-first principles.

What You Will Do:

• Using Infrastructure as Code tools and mindset, automate the deployment of the environments we provide to our application teams and business units to maximize portability, in a way that is as Simple, Secure, and Scalable as possible

• With an emphasis on networking, directly support platform engineering partners and application development teams in troubleshooting, provisioning and maintaining various enterprise infrastructure services

• Deploy, maintain, and optimize network infrastructure in Azure, AWS, & GCP

• Configure and manage virtual networks and subnets, including IP addressing, routing, firewall rules, and load balancing

• Through IPAM, maintain a network topology that provides for integration testing among development teams while remaining flexible enough to unify additional environments as merger and acquisition requires

• Design, deploy, maintain, evolve, and optimize VDI platforms and their underlying network, compute, and storage dependencies

• Solution and implement Direct Connect, Express Route, and VPN technologies to establish secure, reliable and resilient connections

• Work closely with Security and Compliance to ensure security framework adherence (SOC2, Hi-Trust, FEDRAMP etc.)

• Be a force multiplier for the development teams, enabling them to focus on delivering business value as quickly and efficiently as possible

• Drive transformation and standardization of our foundational infrastructure services as the environment evolves and the business grows, including optimizing processes, developing policies, and leveraging automation to enable self-service infrastructure for our engineering partners

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of experience with infrastructure management, or platform engineering experience

• Experience in automation, networking, and general IT infrastructure

• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing and network technologies

• The drive to bring clarity to vague situations, a desire to constantly expand your skills, and the ability to work closely with a team solving complex problems

• End-to-End familiarity with VDI infrastructure, including a strong understanding of the networking, identity, storage, and compute dependencies that underpin a successful VDI deployment

• Communication skills and the ability to describe complex problems to non-technical staff

• Competency with the following technologies:

• Compute technologies: Azure VMs, EC2, VMware vSphere

• Network security:

• Azure - VNets, NSG, AGW

• AWS - VPC,TGW, Peering, SG, ALB, NLB

• NextGen FW, VPN

• Storage: Azure Files & Blob, Amazon S3, AWS FSXn

• Automation: Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Github

• Core: Windows & Linux, DNS / IPAM, Active Directory

• Observability: DataDog, CloudWatch, Azure Log Analytics, Aria

• IAM: Azure Roles, AWS IAM

• Curiosity, passion, adaptability, and flexibility needed to navigate a growing enterprise

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Group Policy, AAD / Entra, PowerShell, CIFS & NFS storage protocol, Palo Alto, F5

• Deep knowledge of cloud services, containerization, and/or Kubernetes

• Aria Operations, ControlUp

• Experience migrating, connecting, and securing disparate environments

• VDI platform management experience

• Experience driving technical initiatives end-to-end

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:

$165,000—$200,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

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