Founding Head of SRE & Cloud Infrastructure

PracticeSuite, Inc.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

PracticeSuite, Inc. is seeking a founding head of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering to establish the SRE function, set standards, and hire the first engineer. You’ll define the operating model and roadmap from day one for a healthcare-focused platform.

You’ll lead incident response, design AWS-based cloud infrastructure (accounts, VPC, IAM), implement CI/CD, observability, backups, and cost controls while shaping reliability, scalability and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading platform and/or infrastructure teams.
• Led an SRE, platform, or infra team at director/manager level and hands-on in production.
• Experience with multi-server architecture for redundancy, scale, performance.
• Production experience with Linux, Oracle and Java stack.
• Hands-on AWS core services design including cost, scaling, and resilience.
• Familiarity with hypervisor concepts (KVM/VMware) and Proxmox is a plus.
• Experience implementing monitoring/observability and CI/CD.
• Experience with IAM, encryption, patching, vulnerability management; HIPAA/SOC 2/HITRUST/ISO 27001 preferred.
• Experience collaborating with production teams.

Responsibilities

• Stand up SRE as a function: incident command, US-hours on-call coverage, post-incident reviews, and SLOs
• Set infrastructure direction across current servers and new solutions including vendor recommendations
• Drive Cloud Infrastructure: Design AWS accounts, VPC, IAM, and data-store shape; own cost, scaling, and resilience trade-offs
• Own CI/CD and operational foundations: environment and domain management, observability, secrets management, access control, and backup/restore evidence
• Define the operating split between Server Admin and SRE

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud architecture

AWS core services

Linux administration

CI/CD implementation

Observability/Monitoring

IAM / Access control

Security compliance

Production systems design

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Proxmox

VMware

KVM

Job description

PracticeSuite, Inc. is seeking a founding head of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering to establish the SRE function, set standards, and hire the first engineer. You’ll define the operating model and roadmap from day one for a healthcare-focused platform.

You’ll lead incident response, design AWS-based cloud infrastructure (accounts, VPC, IAM), implement CI/CD, observability, backups, and cost controls while shaping reliability, scalability and performance.