Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

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 Staff Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role in designing, optimizing, and securing the underlying cloud 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, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, and cross-cloud integrations, you will collaborate closely with peers in security, development, 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 Technical Leadership & Architecture

Own the technical direction of SRE functions for designated teams from architecture definition and test planning through implementation and ongoing operations

Lead design and development of tooling and processes that improve service delivery at scale: reliability, resiliency, efficiency, visibility, and quality

Drive adoption of researched, verified, and standardized engineering practices across the teams you support

Enhance system designs and infrastructure implementations to make them more efficient, standardized, and maintainable

Take end-to-end ownership of major projects defining architecture, test plans, and implementation and empower others to do the same

Push for and advocate superior architectural solutions; provide a compelling, data-backed case for change

Drive transformation and standardization of foundational infrastructure services as the environment evolves and the business grows

M&A Integration & Environment Consolidation

Architect and lead the integration of newly acquired cloud environments into Datavant's infrastructure, ensuring security, reliability, and consistency across an expanding multi-cloud footprint

Design and implement hybrid-cloud and cross-cloud connectivity strategies to ensure interoperability as M&A activity adds new environments

Own and evolve the modular network security edge, ensuring it remains flexible enough to unify additional environments while providing a consistent integration testing surface for development teams

Drive environment consolidation initiatives bringing order to disparate hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and reducing operational fragmentation across the organization

Collaborate with security, platform engineering, and development teams to ensure newly integrated environments adhere to Zero Trust principles, governance frameworks, and automation-first practices

Optimize processes, develop policies, and enable secure, self-service infrastructure for engineering partners operating across consolidated environments

Operational Excellence

Drive resolution of complex and systemic operational issues without needing guidance

Lead enhancements and improvements to service delivery practices for all designated teams

Define and evolve SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget policies across your scope

Establish and continuously improve on-call practices, incident response processes, and postmortem culture

Identify opportunities for efficiency gains and actively share that knowledge across the team

Mentorship & Team Enablement

Serve as a mentor to SREs and developers on designated teams guiding technical growth, reviewing work, and raising the engineering bar

Responsible for the mentorship and growth of SREs within your scope of influence

Train and lead others on the team in completing complex tasks; delegate effectively and empower others to own architectures and implementations independently

Drive best practices and standards for SRE functions within designated teams

Cross-functional Influence

Partner deeply with development, security, and platform engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, and operability into the software development lifecycle

Drive improvements to development processes based on data-driven analysis and team feedback

Communicate complex engineering challenges and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Leverage AI tools and agents strategically to accelerate delivery and improve team workflows

Automation & Platform

Lead the design and implementation of automation that improves platform reliability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency

Architect and build scalable observability solutions instrumentation strategy, dashboards, alerting, and on-call tooling

Own Infrastructure as Code standards and practices (Terraform, Ansible) for designated teams, writing IaC that supports simple, secure, and scalable deployments

Implement policy-based automation (AWS SCPs, Azure Policy) to maintain governance across cloud environments, including newly integrated M&A environments

Champion CI/CD pipeline improvements that reduce toil and increase delivery confidence

What You Need to Succeed

8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure architecture

Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, compute, storage, and…