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Smile Digital Health

Powering the next generation of connected healthcare. Health system solutions for technology, business, and people

Director, Cloud & Managed Services

DirectorDirectorFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 201-500Since 2016H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Canada

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishCloudCyber SecurityITSMKubernetes

Job Description

Director, Cloud & Managed Services

Smile Digital Health

• 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 Smile's 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.

Job 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.
  • Bachelor’s 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.

Benefits

  • 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

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