Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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 Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in designing, optimizing, and securing the underlying cloud infrastructure that powers our organization’s cloud environments. As we transition from an on-premise colo 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.

This role focuses on core cloud infrastructure, including networking, identity and access management, security, storage, compute, and cross-cloud integrations. You will collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams to ensure our cloud environment adheres to best practices, governance frameworks, and automation-first principles.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and optimize cloud-native infrastructure using best practices for security, scalability, and high availability.
• Assist with on-prem to cloud migration efforts, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal downtime.
• Integrate external cloud environments into the organization’s cloud footprint, ensuring security and consistency.
• Develop and implement hybrid-cloud and cross-cloud connectivity strategies to ensure interoperability.
• Architect and optimize multi-cloud networking (AWS VPCs, Azure VNets, Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, VPNs).
• Manage DNS, routing, and traffic management to enable secure, low-latency communication across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce Zero Trust networking, IAM, and encryption standards.
• Implement and manage security controls, including AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, Azure Defender, NSGs, SGs, WAF, and IAM policies.
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring repeatability and compliance.
• Implement policy-based automation (AWS SCPs, Azure Policy) to maintain governance across cloud environments.
• Optimize cloud spending with FinOps best practices, leveraging tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and right-sizing strategies.
• Support observability teams with infrastructure monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch, Datadog and Splunk.

What You Need to Succeed

You have deep expertise in cloud infrastructure architecture and operations, with a strong background in AWS and Azure. You have successfully migrated workloads to the cloud, designed secure, scalable, and automated environments, and integrated new cloud platforms into existing ecosystems. You work well across teams, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where collaboration, problem-solving, and continuous improvement are key.

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure architecture.
• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, compute, storage, and IAM.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud and integrating new cloud environments into existing architectures.
• Deep understanding of multi-cloud networking (AWS VPCs, Azure VNets, Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, PrivateLink, DNS, hybrid connectivity).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform and Ansible).
• Strong security knowledge, including IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, HITRUST, NIST, FedRAMP).
• Experience managing multi-account cloud governance and security policies (AWS Organizations, Azure Policy, SCPs).
• Excellent problem-solving skills for cloud networking, security, and performance optimization.

What Helps You Stand Out

• Experience in hybrid or multi-cloud environments with on-prem connectivity.
• Hands-on expe