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Director, Cloud & Managed Services Remote Canada

Smile Digital Health

Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 7 August 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 4 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Working for a company like Smile Digital Health means supporting our mandate for #BetterGlobalHealth. We strive towards this goal every day and the results can be seen in the impact of our innovative health data platform and data management solutions which are used in over 20 countries. We were #19 on Deloittes Technology Fast 50 Ranking for 2024!

Smile Digital Health makes it easy for healthcare stakeholders to collect and exchange data with our leading FHIR-based data liberation platform.

At its heart the Smile platform enables people and organizations to better manage healthcare data. We helpgenerate andliberate structured healthcare data to ensure effective delivery across care teams and health systems bringing #BetterGlobalHealth to patients everyday!

Apply today and find plenty of reasons to SMILE!

The Director Cloud & Managed Services is a highly effective strategic leader responsible for the development and implementation of strategy delivery operational excellence and evolution of Smile Digital Healths cloud platform automation and deployment automation capabilities to support an exciting phase of cloud-native ingrowth at Smile. This role leads effective multidisciplinary teams responsible for cloud operations and platform engineering to deliver secure scalable and automated deployment solutions supporting Managed Services SaaS and customer-managed environments. The Director partners closely with Engineering Product Professional Services Security and Customer Success to drive operational evolution and maturity platform reliability automation and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Lead and develop a strategic and scalable Cloud and Managed Services team that supports continued business growth and competitiveness.
Establish and implement technical IT program management frameworks methodologies and best practices to ensure the successful delivery of relevant lines of businesses including managed services.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients to build an in-depth understanding of their expectations business needs and goals.
Define and execute the roadmap for deployment automation infrastructure automation and platform engineering capabilities supporting Managed Services SaaS and customer-managed deployments.
Lead and develop the Deployment Automation Engineering team responsible for designing building maintaining and enhancing automation tooling deployment pipelines and operational platform capabilities.
Establish DevOps and Platform Engineering best practices including Infrastructure-as-Code CI/CD pipelines configuration management release automation and deployment standardization.
Provide operational leadership for Smiles SaaS platform ensuring high availability scalability reliability operational readiness and continuous improvement of cloud-hosted services.
Ensure cloud platforms are designed and operated in accordance with security-by-design principles regulatory requirements and organizational security policies.
Drive standardization and automation across all deployment models reducing manual effort improving deployment consistency and accelerating customer delivery.
Participate in key marketing pricing pre-sales and sales activities for various Smile Digital Health programs as needed.
Ensure adherence to relevant contractual obligations as well as develop and execute action plans in the case of non-conformities.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop complete and enhance marketing material RFXs legal contracts (including but not limited to SOWs Master Service Agreements and Partner Contracts) and IT procurement.
Manage strategic planning prioritization and resource allocation for IT programs balancing competing priorities and stakeholder needs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leaders to enhance customer engagement experience and ensure customer success and satisfaction.
Lead incident and problem resolutions by working with internal teams such as Engineering Client Support Privacy & Security and Incident Management.
Coordinate technology changes for customer environments and ensure teams and relevant partners adhere to organizational policies and ITIL practices.
Establish and maintain program governance structures including steering committees to provide oversight and guidance throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements:

7 years of experience in a senior cloud operations leadership role within IT and Cloud management services with Client consulting experience in developing supporting and delivering large-scale complex technological projects and initiatives in a complex healthcare technology environment.
5 years experience with in-depth understanding of ITSM framework and best practices including networking cloud cyber security enterprise and IT support.
3 years of experience working with Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes engineering teams to develop and deliver modern technology solutions.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Business Administration or related field and/or equivalent work experience.
Significant experience leading and developing leaders in software engineering platform engineering DevOps and/or infrastructure engineering teams responsible for automation tooling or cloud platform development.
Demonstrated experience growing and scaling Cloud operations and Managed Services capabilities with a strong customer focus.
Strong abilities in influencing critical strategic planning and decisions internally and with Clients.
In-depth knowledge of evolving technologies and how healthcare organizations consume cloud services.
Excellent strategic thinking with ability to align IT programs with business priorities and drive organizational transformation.
Strong demonstrated ability to build strengthen maintain and manage strong relationships with critical clients vendors and cross-functional teams and/or departments.
Professional experience negotiating and managing client contracts or agreements as it relates to service levels and contractual obligations.
Deep understanding of Cloud pricing and demonstrated experience with managing budgets.
Demonstrated experience building or managing deployment automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code CI/CD pipelines GitOps or comparable automation frameworks.
Experience ensuring organizational alignment with various security frameworks and industry standards including but not limited to ITIL HITRUST ISO 27001/ 27017/ 27018 and SOC-2 certifications
Experience implementing or operating enterprise observability platforms including logging metrics tracing monitoring and alerting.
Relevant certifications (e.g. CISM CCSP CISSP ITIL TOGAF) an asset.

Additional Information:

Smile discloses that artificial intelligence (AI) may be used in portions of the recruitment and selection process such as resume screening or application assessment. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by qualified human decision-makers and AI tools are used to support not replace fair and equitable hiring practices.
This position is a new role created to support Smiles continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.

Some of the benefits we offer:

* Remote Work Environment

* Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO Personal and Sick Days

* Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits

* RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution

* Life and Disability

* Employee Assistance Program

* FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning

* Super HAPI Fun Club

Smiles core values include respect inclusion embracing our differences and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity equity and inclusion.

We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Director

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