Staff Systems Engineer

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Engineer in Infrastructure to contribute to the strategy, architecture, and operations of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for the Technical Operations group (Azure, GCP, AWS). This role also requires deep expertise in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate lifecycle management, Active Directory domain management, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure security (including SIEM). You will be a technical leader operating in highly regulated enterprise environments, including those governed by HIPAA, HiTrust, ISO 27001, FDA, and FIPS 140-2.

Collaboration with Product teams is central: the Staff Engineer will work closely with Product owners and engineering teams to ensure our infrastructure aligns with evolving product requirements, enabling rapid and reliable delivery of digital products. Experience supporting environments with protected health information (PHI) subject to HIPAA, and operating within frameworks such as HiTrust and ISO 27001, is essential. This role will work very closely with our DevOps, SRE, QA, and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define, implement, and evangelize the strategic roadmap for automated infrastructure deployments and process innovation across hybrid environments.
• Lead and mentor infrastructure engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
• Build strong partnerships with Product teams, understanding requirements and ensuring product delivery is enabled by robust, scalable, and compliant infrastructure solutions.

Collaboration with Product Teams

• Partner with Product owners, engineers, and delivery leads to translate product requirements into secure and scalable infrastructure designs.
• Proactively advise Product teams on infrastructure opportunities, limitations, and automation best practices.
• Participate in backlog prioritization and infrastructure enhancements that support the product roadmap.

Infrastructure Automation (IaC)

• Support, and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, working with our DevOps team in support of our CI/CD pipelines across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-prem resources.
• Evaluate and implement automation and orchestration tools for full infrastructure lifecycle management.

PKI & Certificate Management

• Own Digital-wide PKI architecture and certificate lifecycle management (issuance, renewal, revocation, inventory) for all environments.
• Ensure practices meet rigorous privacy, security, and compliance standards—including HIPAA, HiTrust, ISO 27001, FDA, and FIPS 140-2.
• Work closely with our product teams in support of business requirements and priorities.

Active Directory & Domain Services

• Architect, manage, and maintain Active Directory domains, domain controllers, GPOs, FSMO roles, and directory/hygiene.
• Oversee integrations with cloud platforms (Azure AD, Google Directory), federation, identity/access management, and automation for provisioning, deprovisioning, and auditing.

Monitoring, Security, & SIEM

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