Senior Director, Infrastructure (Cloud)

Fujifilm

Job Location:

Durham County, NC - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Overview

Build the cloud platform that powers a global innovator. As Senior Director Infrastructure (Cloud) at FUJIFILM you will define and run the enterprise cloud strategy across AWS/Azure cloud networking and WAN database services cloud storage/backup/DR and FinOps. Youll lead highperforming teams implement rocksolid guardrails and deliver selfservice platforms that enable developers accelerate delivery and keep costs and risks in check24x7 worldwide.

If you thrive on creating scalable landing zones championing reliability and automation and translating vision into measurable business outcomes this is your next big role.

Company Overview

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more importantand we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations our capabilities and our teams and looking for passionate mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in peoples lives.

Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine cure or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare electronics business innovation and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of giving our world more smiles. Visit: Description

What youll do

Define multiyear cloud platform strategy and roadmaps (landing zones account/subscription structure networking patterns shared services observability) aligned to business objectives risk posture and budget; present plans KPIs and outcomes to executives.
Build and lead a multidisciplinary organization (platform engineering cloud networking/WAN database services storage/backup/DR FinOps). Set goals metrics org design succession plans and foster a culture of automation reliability and continuous improvement.
Establish implement and govern cloud architectures policies standards and guardrails (IaC policyascode tagging CMDB/asset hygiene golden images secrets management). Approve reference designs and lifecycle plans for scale and supportability.
Drive service reliability and operational excellence: SLOs/SLAs monitoring/observability incident/problem/change management capacity/performance management resilience testing/chaos; lead postincident reviews and systemic remediation.
Direct cloud and WAN networking (VPC/VNet design routing DNS private endpoints service mesh SDWAN MPLS/Internet Direct Connect/ExpressRoute/Cloud Interconnect) to ensure secure resilient connectivity and segmentation.
Oversee database services (managed and selfmanaged where applicablerelational NoSQL streaming): provisioning patching performance tuning backup/restore HA/DR schema governance and modernization.
Lead cloud storage backup and DR strategy (object/file/block services snapshots replication backup tooling retention/legal hold) and validate RPO/RTO through regular recovery tests and crossregion/zone failover exercises.
Own the FinOps practice: cost allocation tagging budget alerts commitment planning (SPs/RIs/Savings Plans) rightsizing elasticity policies chargeback/showback; partner with Finance for forecasting and variance analysis.
Manage CSPs/MSPs and tool/vendor ecosystem: negotiate contracts optimize TCO track SLAs/OLAs and evaluate new services.
Ensure security and compliance with Security Risk and Audit (Zero Trust hardening vulnerability remediation identity/privileged access encryption logging audit evidence). Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture Application Data and OnPrem Infrastructure teams to enable hybrid patterns migration factories platform services (Kubernetes/serverless/queues) and selfservice developer experiences.

Minimum education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field; or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred education:

Masters degree in Technology Management Business Administration or related field.

Minimum experience and qualifications

12 years in infrastructure/platform engineering with 6 years focused on public cloud at enterprise scale.
10 years of leadership managing managers and crossfunctional teams (platform networking DBA/data services FinOps).
4 years leading leaders (managers/supervisors).
Demonstrated delivery of largescale cloud programs (e.g. landing zone builds app migrations network transformation/SDWAN database modernization DR/resilience uplift).
Handson depth in two or more areas:
- AWS/Azure/GCP platform services
- IaC (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation)
- Cloud networking
- Managed databases (RDS/Aurora/SQL MI/Cloud SQL/NoSQL)
- Kubernetes/containers
- Storage/backup/DR in cloud
- Observability stacks
Strong grasp of ITIL and SRE practices with experience operating 24x7 production platforms.
Vendor and contract management with CSPs/MSPs; budgeting and TCO optimization.

Preferred certifications and industry experience

AWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional.
ITIL Foundation.
Kubernetes certification (CKA/CKAD) a plus.
Biotech/pharma/life sciences experience is preferred.

What you bring

Mastery of public cloud architectures (AWS/Azure) multiaccount/subscription models identity and access network design DNS CDN/edge SDWAN; IaC and policyascode; container platforms; managed DBs and data protection; backup/DR orchestration; observability and AIOps.
FinOps leadership: tagging and taxonomy RI/SP planning anomaly detection rightsizing elasticity policies unit economics forecasting and chargeback/showback.
Security and compliance acumen: Zero Trust encryption and key management privileged access vulnerability and patch management logging and evidence practices.
Operational excellence: ITIL (incident/problem/change) SRE capacity/performance management and vendor governance.
Leadership and communication: strategic planning stakeholder influence executive storytelling talent development and crossfunctional collaboration.

Scope and impact

Lead cloud platform engineering and operations cloud/WAN networking database services and cloud storage/backup/DR across all business units.
Own multimilliondollar OpEx/CapEx budgets (CSP commitments network contracts tooling managed services) and cost allocation models.
Steward landing zones shared services CI/CD/IaC pipelines SDWAN and cloud interconnects managed DB estates backup/DR orchestration and tagging/taxonomy.
Support a global multiregion footprint with 24x7 expectations for critical workloads; ensure audit readiness and regulatory adherence.

Team and reporting

Lead 46 direct reports and 1020 indirect engineers/administrators across regions and shifts.
Make hiring performance promotion and termination recommendations; typically holds final hiring authority within policy.

Work environment and physical requirements

Global role with periodic offhours engagement for incidents and participation in oncall leadership rotations.
Occasional travel to offices data centers and vendor locations.

Ready to architect scale and optimize the cloud platforms that accelerate FUJIFILMs mission Apply now and help us deliver secure reliable and costefficient cloud services at global scale.

As part of any recruitment process FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. Theorganisation is committed to beingtransparent about how it collects and uses thatdataand to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiringmanagers in Europe and the United States.

This is a global position that will support all our sites. This position can be based at any ofour locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.

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Position OverviewBuild the cloud platform that powers a global innovator. As Senior Director Infrastructure (Cloud) at FUJIFILM you will define and run the enterprise cloud strategy across AWS/Azure cloud networking and WAN database services cloud storage/backup/DR and FinOps. Youll lead highperform...