Senior Infrastructure Engineer II
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Job Location:
Waltham, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 149000 - 182000
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Ardelyx is a publicly traded commercial biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx has two commercial products approved in the United States IBSRELA (tenapanor) and XPHOZAH (tenapanor). Ardelyx has agreements for the development and commercialization of tenapanor outside of the U.S. Kyowa Kirin commercializes PHOZEVEL (tenapanor) for hyperphosphatemia in Japan. A New Drug Application for tenapanor for hyperphosphatemia has been approved in China with Fosun Pharma. Knight Therapeutics commercializes IBSRELA in Canada.
Position Summary:
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer II is the most senior individual contributor within Infrastructure Engineering and serves as the technical authority for Ardelyxs hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure platforms. This role combines deep hands-on expertise with architectural ownership and strategic influence to ensure infrastructure systems are scalable resilient secure and aligned with long-term business objectives.
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer II owns platform-level architecture standards and engineering direction. This individual leads complex initiatives across cloud identity networking virtualization automation and observability mentors senior engineers and acts as a trusted technical advisor to IT leadership and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Own and lead the full lifecycle of complex multi-domain infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through implementation optimization and operational readiness
- Define document and evolve infrastructure architecture standards and reference designs to ensure scalability resiliency security and cost efficiency
- Drive long-term infrastructure strategy and modernization initiatives including automation platforms cloud-native architectures and zero-trust-aligned designs
- Develop and maintain high-quality architecture artifacts design documents and technical roadmaps; clearly articulate tradeoffs and risk to technical and executive audiences
- Design and optimize enterprise-scale compute storage virtualization identity and cloud platforms for performance reliability and scalability
- Own infrastructure resiliency architecture including backup disaster recovery and business continuity design and testing
- Establish and improve observability standards (monitoring alerting telemetry) to reduce MTTD and MTTR across platforms
- Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for critical infrastructure cloud identity and network incidents
- Mentor and guide Senior Infrastructure Engineer I and other engineers through design reviews technical coaching and standards enforcement
- Influence capacity planning automation strategy and long-term architectural decisions to support sustainable business growth
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree advanced degree preferred in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or related field with 10 years of progressive infrastructure engineering experience or equivalent experience
- Advanced or expert-level certifications preferred (Azure Architect AWS Solutions Architect VMware HyperV)
- Deep technical expertise across cloud hybrid and enterprise infrastructure platforms
- Proven experience owning platform architecture and influencing long-term technical strategy
- Demonstrated leadership on complex cross-functional infrastructure modernization initiatives
- Strong experience with automation infrastructure-as-code and scalable system design patterns
- Ability to translate business and risk requirements into durable technical architecture and roadmaps
- Recognized as a technical authority and mentor across engineering teams
- Proven experience defining and influencing engineering standards patterns and best practices across the organization
Location:
Waltham Massachusetts
The anticipated annualized base pay range for this full-time position is $149000 - $182000. Ardelyx utilizes industry data to ensure that our compensation is competitive and aligned with our industry peers. Actual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors including years of relevant experience training qualifications and internal equity. The compensation package may also include an annual bonus target and equity awards subject to eligibility and other requirements.
Ardelyx also offers a robust benefits package to employees including a 401(k) plan with generous employer match 12 weeks of paid parental leave up to 12 weeks of living organ and bone marrow leave equity incentive plans health plans (medical prescription drug dental and vision)life insurance and disability flexible time off annual Winter Holiday shut down and at least 11 paid holidays.
Ardelyx is an equal opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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About Company
From discovery through commercialisation, all of us at Ardelyx are driven to advance targeted therapies where significant medical needs persist.
