Senior Manager, IT, Cloud

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.

Your role will be to own our technical resiliency strategy, interface with our steering committees to present our vision, and track its status across cross-functional teams. You’ll be leading a team of cloud engineers and architects to enhance our IT Cloud Services cloud environments. You’ll utilize your experience in people leadership, development, cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD, resiliency / disaster recovery, and observability. Also, you’ll look beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and creatively resolve complex problems. This is a remote-based role (US-based, West Coast preferred).

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead a team of cloud engineers and architects to maintain and enhance Edwards Lifesciences’ IT cloud infrastructure.

• Architect, build, and support our cloud infrastructure including automation development, scalability, security, and elasticity. 

• Develop best-in-practice automation and infrastructure as code patterns that embed resiliency and fault tolerance into all our core applications. 

• Build a high-performing team that has the trust of its stakeholders, partners, and vendors.

• Serve as the subject matter expert and platform owner for all observability tools. 

• Participate and maintain an on-call rotation and incident management playbook to support critical services. 

• Regularly update our steering committees for risk management, business continuity, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery. 

What you’ll need (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM +10+ years’ experience in an IT or SRE role 

• Experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems running in a public cloud environment (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

• Experience building, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines in a cloud environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in a major industry language (i.e., Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, etc.).

• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana, Dynatrace, DataDog, etc. 

• Extensive experience with public cloud provider services and managing them with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK.

• Extensive experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt.

• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes. 

• Previous experience presenting to and building the trust of senior leaders and c-suite executives.   

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $133,000 to $187,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).  Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.   

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.