Senior Manager IT Infrastructure
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Description
Job Title:
Senior Manager IT Infrastructure
Location:
San Diego CA / Hybrid
Position type:
FLSA:
Full time
Exempt
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IT Security Infrastructure and EA
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Profoundly Improve Peoples lives by Revolutionizing the Delivery of RNA Therapeutics
At Avidity Biosciences we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving peoples lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed solutionoriented thinker join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated collaborative agile and focused on the needs of patients.
Avidity Biosciences Inc.s mission is to profoundly improve peoples lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform Avidity demonstrated the firstever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered inSan Diego CA.For more information about our AOC platform clinical development pipeline and people please visitwww.aviditybiosciencesand engage with us onLinkedInandTwitter.
The Opportunity
The Senior Manager IT Infrastructure is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing Aviditys IT infrastructure strategy operations and optimization. This role ensures high availability scalability and security of Aviditys IT environment by integrating onpremise infrastructures lab environments virtualization cloud infrastructure and security into a cohesive strategy that aligns with the companys overall IT goals. You will collaborate with crossfunctional teams including cybersecurity enterprise architecture IT service management business stakeholders clinical regulatory and research teams to ensure IT infrastructure supports Aviditys biotech operations and compliance needs.
This role requires a technical leader with strong handson expertise in infrastructure reference architecture virtualization and cloud management. The ideal candidate will be capable of managing a team and reporting key IT metrics such as overall disaster preparedness backup mean time to recovery and monitoring and alerting status. Additionally you will play a crucial role in overseeing Aviditys technical and physical changes ensuring smooth planning and infrastructure stability. This includes coordinating IT asset relocation minimizing downtime ensuring robust connectivity and implementing necessary infrastructure enhancements to support longterm operational efficiency.
What You Will Contribute
- Lead endtoend IT infrastructure operations including onpremise lab environments virtualization cloud infrastructure and security.
- Develop and execute scalable infrastructure strategies to align with Aviditys security compliance and business needs ensuring adherence to biotechspecific regulatory frameworks such as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Good x Practice GxP.
- Drive initiatives for cost optimization automation and modernization of infrastructure services.
- Oversee disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans (BCP) ensuring strong preparedness and efficient mean time to recovery (MTTR). Integrate cyber resilience planning and incident response strategies to enhance infrastructure security and ensure rapid recovery from disruptions. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) such as recovery time objectives (RTO) recovery point objectives (RPO) and system uptime metrics to measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure robust monitoring and alerting frameworks are in place and functioning effectively.
- Manage cloud services (Azure AWS) and support a hybrid IT model with strong governance.
- Provide leadership for virtualization efforts ensuring optimal compute storage and networking resource utilization.
- Oversee onpremise networking ensuring connectivity and security but with a balanced focus.
- Lead and support infrastructure components of the companys building move ensuring seamless relocation and postmove management.
- Partner with security teams to align Identity and Access Management (IAM) Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Security Operations Center (SOC) operations with infrastructure best practices.
- Work with service desk and IT teams to improve system reliability monitoring and incident response.
- Manage vendor relationships negotiate contracts and oversee thirdparty infrastructure service providers by setting clear servicelevel agreements (ServiceLevel Agreements (SLAs) ensuring adherence to security and compliance standards and regularly assessing vendor performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) such as uptime response time and cost efficiency.
- Provide mentorship and leadership to IT engineers and support teams.
What We Seek
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- 8 years of experience (ideally in IT infrastructure roles with 4 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
- Experience in biotech pharmaceuticals or life sciences particularly in managing IT infrastructure challenges related to lab environments data security and compliance is strongly preferred.
- Strong expertise in onpremise infrastructures virtualization lab environments cloud infrastructure (Azure AWS) and security.
- Proven ability to monitor alert and report on infrastructure health ensuring resilience and performance.
- Experience managing building moves from an IT infrastructure standpoint ensuring a smooth transition and sustained operational integrity. Prior experience in similarscale moves is preferred with a strong ability to manage logistics minimize downtime and ensure a seamless postmove infrastructure setup.
- Ability to manage and report on disaster preparedness and backup recovery metrics (Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) (RPO).
- Excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Azure Solutions Architect / AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent experience
- VMware VCP / Cisco CCNP or equivalent experience (for virtualization and networking needs)
- ITIL PMP or CISSP or equivalent experience (for processdriven infrastructure leadership)
What We will Provide to You:
- The base salary range for this role is $180500 $199500 The final compensation will be commensurate with such factors as relevant experience skillset internal equity and market factors.
- Avidity offers competitive compensation and benefits which includes the opportunity for annual and spot bonuses stock options and RSUs as well as a 401(k) with an employer match. In addition the comprehensive wellness program includes coverage for medical dental vision and LTD and four weeks of time off.
- A commitment to learning and development which includes a variety of programming internally developed by and for Avidity employees opportunities for jobspecific training offered by industry and an education reimbursement program.
Avidity Biosciences
10578 Science Center Dr. Suite 125
San Diego CA
92121
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Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
