Associate Director, System Engineering

The Role:

Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team thats revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases.

As an employee youll be part of a continually growing organization working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide contributing to global health initiatives.

Modernas commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience with the potential to make a significant impact on patients lives worldwide.

Moderna is solidifying its presence within our international business services hub in Warsaw Poland a city renowned for its rich scientific and technological heritage. This hub provides critical functions meeting the growing demand of Modernas global business operations. Were inviting professionals from around the world to join our mission and contribute to the future of mRNA medicines.

This is a unique opportunity to lead the modernization of Modernas global compute and storage platforms in an enterprise that is redefining the biotech industry. As Associate Director Systems Engineering you will own the strategic vision and delivery of onpremises virtualization storage backup and Windowsbased compute infrastructure. Youll drive technical innovation while ensuring resilience scalability and service excellence across our global data centers and hybrid environments.

This is a highly technical individual contributor role working at the center of our global infrastructure operations. Youll serve as the principal systems architect and lead crossfunctional collaboration with cloud security application and operations teamshelping build a modern agile and automationdriven platform. This position is based in Warsaw Poland.

Heres What Youll Do:

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Define and lead the longterm strategy for global compute and storage infrastructure aligned with Modernas hybrid cloud model.

• Architect resilient virtualization platforms (VMWare) enterprisegrade storage (Pure NetApp Dell EMC) and backup/DR systems (VEEAM).

• Develop and enforce lifecycle management standards for Windowsbased VMs OS configurations and patch compliance.

• Direct the operational excellence of compute and storage platforms ensuring availability performance and security.

• Own and automate patch management workflows for Windows environments hypervisors and management stacks.

• Drive automation initiatives using Ansible Python Terraform or VMware Aria to modernize systems administration.

• Collaborate with observability teams to enable robust monitoring alerting and analytics for global infrastructure.

• Design and lead disaster recovery strategies validating enterprise backup and business continuity systems.

• Ensure infrastructure compliance with security audit and regulatory standards in close partnership with InfoSec.

• Lead vendor management for renewals escalations and capacity planning across key infrastructure platforms.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Act as the global subject matter expert and technical leader in systems engineering working closely with stakeholders across the enterprise.

• Mentor and guide global systems administrators and engineers promoting a highperformance collaborative team culture.

• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and continuous service improvement efforts following major incidents.

• Define SLAs and drive adherence across system infrastructure teams and vendor partners.

• Leverage performance and utilization data to proactively optimize resource allocation and system performance.

• Support enterprise initiatives in observability infrastructureascode and hybrid cloud enablement.

• Work crossfunctionally with app network security and cloud teams to deliver seamless infrastructure experiences.

• Stay at the forefront of innovation by evaluating and integrating new platforms and tools particularly in automation and generative AI operations.

The key Moderna Mindsets youll need to succeed in the role:

• We behave like owners. The solutions were building go beyond any job description.
  This role demands endtoend ownership of complex infrastructure platforms. Your success will depend on taking initiative solving deep technical problems and optimizing systems with a longterm view of service performance and reliability.

• We digitize everywhere possible using the power of code to maximize our impact on patients.
  Youll drive automation and infrastructureascode to streamline delivery reduce human error and enable scale across a growing global environmentcontributing directly to Modernas mission to reach more patients faster through technology.

Heres What Youll Need (Basic Qualifications)

• 10 years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.

• Expertlevel knowledge of VMware vSphere vSAN and enterprise storage technologies.

• Proven experience managing patching lifecycle management and compliance across heterogeneous systems.

• Strong background in backup and disaster recovery practices ideally using VEEAM.

• Handson expertise with infrastructure automation and scripting.

• Deep understanding of observability monitoring and performance tuning.

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience in GxP or regulated environments (pharma/biotech/healthcare)

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud infrastructure and integration strategies.

• Certifications such as ITIL VMware VCP/VCAP/VCDX VMCE Pure Storage certification or similar

• Familiarity with modern observability platforms (e.g. Splunk SolarWinds Kentik) and AIdriven network analytics.

• Experience driving modernization and automation in infrastructure operations.

• Proven ability to manage budgets vendor relationships and strategic resource allocation to align system engineering function with business growth.

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization.

At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our global benefits and wellbeing resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to wellbeing
• Free premium access to fitness nutrition and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off including vacation bank holidays volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary yearend shutdown
• Savingsandinvestments
• Locationspecific perks and extras!

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform theinfrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a worldclass team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission values and mindsets every day our peopleare the driving force behind our scientific progress and our we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

As we build our company we have always believed an inperson culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of inoffice collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% inoffice structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation teamwork and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn contribute and make a meaningful impact.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit to learn more about our current opportunities.

Moderna is a smokefree alcoholfree and drugfree work environment.

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry or citizenship ethnicity disability military or protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital or familial status or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

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