The Director of Infrastructure owns the foundational control plane that enables every engineering team: cloud account architecture, network design, connectivity, physical office infrastructure, and virtual desktop environments.
Today, these responsibilities are split across Cloud Platform Engineering and application-layer platform work. This role clarifies ownership: the Director of Infrastructure is accountable for control-plane governance (cloud foundations, network architecture, infrastructure guardrails, and physical infrastructure), while Cloud Platform Engineering is accountable for implementing and operating platform capabilities on top of those foundations.
This is not a governance-only role. The Director will remain hands-on through architecture ownership, design reviews, and escalation leadership for foundational cloud and network decisions, while building the team and standards required to operate at scale in a regulated healthcare environment.
What You Will DoCloud Account Architecture & Governance- Own cloud account strategy: account structure, organizational unit design, guardrails, and policy enforcement across AWS and any additional cloud providers
- Define and enforce infrastructure guardrails (service control policies, permission boundaries, configuration baselines) that prevent configuration drift without creating bottlenecks
- Own cloud landing zone architecture and ensure it scales for organic growth, new product lines, and M&A integration
- Partner with Security to align cloud governance with healthcare compliance and audit requirements
Network Architecture & Connectivity- Own enterprise network architecture: VPC design, routing, peering, transit gateway topology, and DNS across all cloud accounts and regions
- Own VPN, edge routing, and hybrid connectivity: including site-to-site tunnels, remote access, and connectivity to partner and acquired environments
- Establish network segmentation standards that support zero-trust principles without slowing delivery teams
- Drive network performance monitoring and capacity planning to ensure connectivity scales ahead of demand
Physical Office Infrastructure- Oversee physical office infrastructure across Datavant locations: network, connectivity, meeting room technology, and lifecycle management
- Establish refresh cadences and reliability standards appropriate for a healthcare company handling sensitive data
VDI & End User Compute Oversight- Provide senior leadership for Datavant's virtual desktop platforms serving thousands of concurrent users across regulated healthcare workflows
- Manage and develop the Manager, End User Compute (VDI), ensuring clear SLAs, architectural direction, and operational maturity
- Own escalation and executive communication for VDI incidents affecting business operations
M&A Integration- Own the infrastructure integration playbook for acquisitions - cloud account onboarding, network connectivity, DNS integration
- Build repeatable integration patterns that reduce the marginal cost and risk of each successive acquisition
- Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering, Security, and Enterprise Engineering on post-close infrastructure workstreams
Team Leadership & Development- Build and lead the infrastructure engineering organization, including the Manager, End User Compute (VDI) and engineers focused on cloud foundations, networking, and physical infrastructure
- Establish operational processes, runbooks, on-call rotations, and knowledge management that reduce single-person dependencies
- Manage vendor and contractor relationships - network providers, cloud support agreements, managed service partners - with clear performance accountability
- Deep experience in building and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with engineering, security, finance, and vendor partners to ensure clear requirements, proactive communication, and seamless collaboration across all cloud infrastructure initiatives
What We're Looking For- 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or network engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing infrastructure teams
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud environments at scale: account architecture, VPC design, IAM governance, multi-account management (Control Tower, Organizations, or equivalent)
- Strong network architecture background, including enterprise routing, DNS, VPN/connectivity design, and network segmentation in cloud and hybrid environments
- Experience building and enforcing infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code practices across engineering organizations
- Track record of taking ownership of fragmented infrastructure functions and building them into well-governed, scalable operations
- Strong cost governance instinct. Infrastructure cost visibility and capacity planning as a core discipline, not an afterthought
- Experience operating infrastructure in regulated environments (healthcare, financial services, or government)
- Proven ability to lead infrastructure integration through M&A, including establishing connectivity, governance, and standardization across acquired environments
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:
$180,000-$250,000 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.
