Senior Director Cloud Engineering (m/f/*)

Solventum; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare innovator in Wrocław is seeking a Senior Director of AWS Cloud Engineering. This role involves leading cloud strategy and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS and leadership experience, particularly in the healthcare sector. The position includes a hybrid work model and focuses on leveraging technology to enhance healthcare solutions.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Health benefits

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud engineering with 5 years in leadership.
• Proven track record in AWS architecture and optimization.
• Experience in delivering in regulated industries, preferably healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS cloud strategy and architecture.
• Optimize AWS services for healthcare applications.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS architecture expertise

Leadership in cloud engineering

Compliance with HIPAA

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS services (EC2, S3, etc.)

Job description

Overview

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/legal/website-privacy-statement/applicant-privacy/ applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

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.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Director of AWS Cloud Engineering, you will lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and operations with a strong focus on scalability, security, compliance, and performance. You will drive our application adoption and optimization of AWS services, ensuring our platforms meet the unique demands of healthcare applications, regulatory requirements, and mission-critical workloads.

The ideal candidate is both visionary and execution-focused - comfortable defining long-term strategy, building high-performance engineering teams, and partnering with business and product leaders to deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

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.
• 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.
• 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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale AWS architecture, migration, and optimization efforts.
• Experience delivering mission-critical workloads in regulated industries; healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Strong background 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.

Preferred Skills

• Deep knowledge of IaC, CI/CD, 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

• Hybrid, Wroclaw Poland

Travel: May include up to 10%

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

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.

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

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