Full-Time Director Cloud Infrastructure

About this opportunity: At Freenome, we are seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our Infrastructure team that is providing the services for early cancer detection blood tests as well as other company-wide initiatives. The ideal candidate is a servant-leader comfortable managing a growing team, focused on meeting the needs of internal customers, navigating ambiguity and adapting to rapid change. You are passionate about building a healthy, collaborative work environment and are a steward of our cultural values.

What you'll do:

1. Execution Excellence: Provide direct, strategic and tactical leadership to your department. Provide leadership in developing new strategies, methodologies, and solutions to improve execution towards department- and company-level objectives. Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice. Translate business segment strategy into cross-functional plans and guide plan execution. Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results). Proactively communicate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment.
2. Communication and Collaboration: Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback. Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly. Provide consistent communications to key functional and cross-functional stakeholders on progress and updates. Guides department in effective communication and collaboration. Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results, adapting to diverse communication styles. Build and maintain strong, healthy relationships with cross-functional peers. Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting, presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings.
3. Culture Lead: Lead by example, integrate and reinforce our Values and Principles. Coaches and provides guidance to direct reports to foster our Values and Principles across departments. Recognizes Values and Principles gaps in your department on an ongoing basis and implement solutions and creates opportunities to grow in those areas.
4. People Leadership: Actively identifies internal transfer and growth opportunities, empowering team members to pursue them. Perform quarterly talent reviews. Addresses performance issues with direct, constructive and actionable feedback. Provides inspiration and leads department towards the company mission, vision, and culture. Gives direction and organizational clarity in roles and responsibilities to execute on department and company OKRs more effectively. Actively involved in recruitment, attracting and retaining top talent to build high performing teams.

Must haves:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership and management
• 3+ years of infrastructure experience
• Multi-public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services, networking, security
• Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructure-as-code techniques
• Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Proven expertise in building high performance teams
• A demonstrated ability to structure, grow, and optimize a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills

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