Director of Platform Engineering

Sonic Healthcare USA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonic Healthcare USA is seeking a strategic Director of Platform Engineering to lead enterprise infrastructure modernization and hosting strategy across data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role requires guiding platform reliability, disaster recovery, automation, and cost efficiency while partnering with Cybersecurity, EA, App Dev, and Data teams.

With 10+ years in infra engineering and 5+ years in leadership, you will build and coach high-performing teams, manage

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 10+ years of infra engineering experience.
• 5+ years in leadership overseeing infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in data centers, cloud platforms, virtualization, and DR.
• Experience guiding large-scale modernization and transformations.
• Strong networking, compute, storage, and cloud architecture knowledge.
• Proven ability to manage large operating and capital budgets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the enterprise platform engineering roadmap and infrastructure strategy.
• Lead design, management, and modernization of data centers, cloud and hybrid infra.
• Oversee Windows, Linux, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, and platform ops.
• Drive IaC adoption and platform standardization, automation, and cost efficiency.
• Establish DR, business continuity, and resiliency for mission-critical systems.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, EA, App Dev, Data & Analytics, and Ops teams.
• Optimize performance and reliability while controlling costs.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and multimillion-dollar budgets.
• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams with a culture of innovation.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Infrastructure modernization

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Disaster recovery

Budget management

Vendor management

Team leadership

Cybersecurity collaboration

Regulated industry experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Ansible

Job description

Job Functions, Duties, Responsibilities and Position Qualifications:

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Sonic Healthcare USA is seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Platform Engineering to lead the design, delivery, and modernization of our enterprise infrastructure platforms. This leader will be responsible for data centers, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, platform reliability, disaster recovery, infrastructure automation, and overall hosting strategy supporting critical clinical and business operations across the organization

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute the enterprise platform engineering roadmap and infrastructure strategy.

• Lead the design, management, and modernization of data centers, colocation facilities, cloud platforms, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

• Oversee Windows, Linux, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, and platform engineering operations.

• Drive cloud adoption, infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform standardization initiatives.

• Establish and maintain disaster recovery, business continuity, and resiliency strategies for mission-critical systems.

• Partner closely with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Data & Analytics, and Operations teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

• Optimize infrastructure performance, reliability, availability, and cost efficiency.

• Manage strategic vendor relationships, contracts, and multimillion-dollar infrastructure budgets.

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams while fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressive infrastructure engineering experience.

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing infrastructure and engineering teams.

• Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, data centers, colocation services, virtualization, disaster recovery, and platform resiliency.

• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure transformation and modernization initiatives.

• Strong understanding of networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud architecture.

• Experience managing large operational and capital budgets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare or highly regulated industry experience.

• Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or similar certifications.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible.

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and infrastructure integrations.

Why Join Sonic Healthcare USA?

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of enterprise infrastructure for a leading healthcare organization. You’ll lead modernization efforts that improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence while supporting critical systems that help deliver high-quality patient care across the country.

Join us and help build the next generation of enterprise infrastructure at Sonic Healthcare USA.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Job Category:

Information Technology

Company:

Sonic Healthcare USA, Inc

Sonic Healthcare USA is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to an inclusive workplace for all employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.