Director, Core & Cloud Infrastructure

Scorpion Therapeutics; United States; Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual salary: $196,000-$218,000

Bonus eligibility

Hybrid (3 days onsite; Waltham, MA)

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Infrastructure/Cloud Leader to drive strategy, modernization, and day-to-day health of core infrastructure and cloud operations across multiple facilities. You will own platform reliability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery while guiding vendor governance and budget management.

The role requires deep technical breadth, enterprise leadership, and the ability to partner with senior leaders to balance reliability, security, and cost in a regulated

Qualifications

• 12+ years in infrastructure/cloud/tech ops with enterprise leadership responsibility.
• Led infra engineering, delivery, and cloud/tech ops teams.
• Deep techni cal breadth across compute, virtualization, Windows/Linux, storage, backup/recovery, monitoring, automation, and cloud ops.
• Built infrastructure roadmaps and led platform modernization/lifecycle/resiliency improvements.
• Managed strategic vendors, cloud providers, MSPs, and global environments.
• Strong governance, risk management, and operational leadership skills.
• Able to lead change, develop talent, and communicate with senior leaders.
• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure strategy, modernization, and day-to-day health of core infrastructure and cloud operations.
• Own infrastructure services across five facilities (3 US, 2 Ireland).
• Manage core platform and cloud operations: compute, virtualization, OS, storage, backup, networking, monitoring, patching, and tooling.
• Drive modernization to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, security, and cost discipline.
• Transition new platforms/cloud services into sustainable operations with documentation and controls.
• Own service reliability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and major incident management.
• Govern vendor/cloud/MSP performance, contracts, and governance.
• Manage infra operating and capital budgets with spend visibility and cost management.
• Ensure security, quality, and compliance in a regulated environment.
• Partner with internal/external teams to strengthen accountability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cloud/infra operations

Budget & governance

Change management

Senior stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

VMware

Networking

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure strategy, modernization, and day-to-day health of core infrastructure and cloud operations.
• Own infrastructure services across five facilities (3 US, 2 Ireland).
• Manage core platform and cloud operations: compute, virtualization, OS (Windows/Linux), storage, backup, networking, monitoring, patching, and infrastructure tooling.
• Drive modernization to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, security, supportability, and cost discipline.
• Transition new platforms/cloud services into sustainable operations with documentation, monitoring, controls, and support models.
• Own service reliability/availability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and major incident management.
• Govern vendor/cloud/managed service partner performance (commitments, improvement plans, contracts, governance).
• Manage infrastructure operating and capital budgets with spend visibility and cost management.
• Ensure security, quality, and compliance in a regulated environment.
• Partner with internal and external teams to strengthen accountability, execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications (Required)

• 12+ years progressive infrastructure/cloud/technology operations experience with enterprise leadership responsibility.
• Proven leadership of infrastructure engineering, delivery, cloud/technology operations teams.
• Broad technical depth across compute, virtualization, Windows/Linux, networking, storage, backup/recovery, monitoring, patching, automation, and cloud ops.
• Experience building infrastructure roadmaps and leading platform modernization/lifecycle/resiliency/service improvement.
• Experience managing strategic vendors, cloud providers, managed service providers, and global environments.
• Strong financial/vendor governance, risk management, and operational leadership skills.
• Ability to lead change, develop talent, influence across teams, and communicate with senior leaders.
• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems (or equivalent).

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Life sciences/biotech/healthcare/manufacturing or other regulated industry experience.
• Working knowledge of GxP, FDA, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR and related compliance.
• Experience with business continuity, disaster recovery, audit readiness, or regulated infrastructure services.

Benefits

• Annual base salary: $196,000-$218,000 plus annual performance bonus eligibility; competitive benefits package.
• Hybrid (Waltham, MA): 3 days/week onsite; not fully remote.