Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

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Job Description:

Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Own the enterprise AWS cloud strategy, architecture, and operational roadmap.

• Partner with product, engineering, and security leaders to ensure cloud platforms meet healthcare, regulatory, and business needs.

• Drive cloud innovation and adoption of AWS capabilities to improve agility, cost efficiency, and scalability.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

• Oversee design and deployment of secure, highly available, and compliant AWS-based infrastructure.

• Ensure infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation best practices (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK) are embedded across the organization.

• Establish robust disaster recovery, high availability, and performance optimization frameworks.

• Optimize cloud spend through effective cost governance and resource utilization strategies.

Healthcare & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure all AWS environments meet or exceed HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other applicable compliance frameworks.

• Lead security and privacy-by-design practices across cloud engineering initiatives.

• Collaborate with compliance and legal teams on regulatory audits, certifications, and attestations.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing cloud engineering team.

• Promote a culture of innovation, learning, and operational excellence.

• Drive professional growth opportunities for engineers in AWS specialization areas.

Continuous Improvement 

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and assess their applicability to enhance the company’s offerings. 

• Establish processes for evaluating and adopting new tools, frameworks, and methodologies. 

• Strategically retire technical debt

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering

OR

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field and 7 years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering

• 7 years of experience managing direct reports (hiring, performance reviews, etc.)

• 5 years' experience leading enterprise-scale AWS architecture, migration, and optimization efforts.

• 5 years' experience delivering mission-critical workloads in regulated industries; healthcare experience strongly preferred.

• 5 years in AWS services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud/on-prem integrations and data platforms.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include

• Deep knowledge of IaC, CI/CD, Observability DevOps tooling, and cloud-native design patterns.

• Experience in container orchestration (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.

• Familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7) and security requirements.

• Strong financial governance skills for AWS cost optimization.

Work location:

• Remote US

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic

Relocation Assistance: Is not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status)

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Onboarding Requirement: To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later.Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $222,044 - $271,387, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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