Infrastructure Engineer (Network)

Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.

Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care. 

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a network-focused Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in designing, optimizing, and securing the underlying infrastructure that powers our organization’s cloud environments. As we transition from a hybrid environment to a cloud-first model, this role will be instrumental in architecting scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure, ensuring seamless workload migration, and integrating new cloud environments into our ecosystem.

With a focus on core cloud infrastructure, including networking, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, and cross-cloud integrations, you will collaborate closely with peers in infrastructure, security, and other areas of the platform engineering team to ensure our cloud environment adheres to best practices, governance frameworks, and automation-first principles.

What You Will Do

• Using Infrastructure as Code tools and mindset, automate the deployment of the environments we provide to our application teams and business units to maximize portability, in a way that is as Simple, Secure, and Scalable as possible
• With an emphasis on networking, directly support platform engineering partners and application development teams in troubleshooting, provisioning and maintaining various enterprise infrastructure
• Deploy, maintain, and optimize network infrastructure in Azure, AWS, and managed Colo
• Configure and manage virtual networks and subnets, including IP addressing, routing, firewall rules, and load balancing
• Through IPAM, maintain a network topology that provides for integration testing among development teams while remaining flexible enough to unify additional environments as merger and acquisition requires
• Solution and implement Direct Connect, Express Route, and VPN technologies to establish secure, reliable and resilient connections
• Work closely with Security and Compliance to ensure security framework adherence (SOC2, Hi-Trust, FEDRAMP etc.)
• Be a force multiplier for the development teams, enabling them to focus on delivering business value as quickly and efficiently as possible

What You Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure management, or platform engineering experience
• Experience in automation, networking, and general IT infrastructure
• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing and network technologies
• The drive to bring clarity to vague situations, a desire to constantly expand your skills and the ability to work closely with a team solving complex problems
• Communication skills and the ability to describe complex problems to non-technical staff
• Competency with the following technologies:
  • Compute technologies: Azure VMs, EC2, VMware vSphere
  • Network security: 
    • Azure - VNets, NSG, AGW
    • AWS - VPC,TGW, Peering, SG, ALB, NLB
    • NextGen FW, VPN
  • Storage: Azure Files & Blob, Amazon S3
  • Automation: Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Git(hub/lab)
  • Core: Windows & Linux, DNS / IPAM, Active Directory
• Curiosity, adaptability, and flexibility needed to navigate a growing enterprise

What Helps You Stand Out

• Group Policy, AAD / Entra, PowerShell, CIFS & NFS storage protocol, Palo Alto, F5
• Deep knowledge of cloud services, containerization, and/or Kubernetes
• DataDog, Cloud Network Monitoring
• Experience migrating, connecting, and securing disparate environments

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national or