Principal Infrastructure Architect
Globus Medical · Audubon
At Globus Medical, we move with a sense of urgency to deliver innovations that improve the quality of life of patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Our team is inspired by the needs of these patients, and the surgeons and healthcare providers who treat them. We embrace a culture of exceptional response by partnering with researchers and educators to transform clinical insights into tangible solutions. Our solutions improve the techniques and outcomes of surgery so patients can resume their lives as quickly as possible.
Position Summary:
The Principal Infrastructure Architect owns the end to end technical design of the on premises core platform, decides the technology inside the standards the SVP sets, writes the proposals and business cases that go to the CFO and CEO, leads the technical side of vendor selection and agreements, and stays accountable through build, migration, and the first year of operation. It is a hands on principal role with real decision authority.
Job Responsibilities:
- Architecture, end to end. The target state and the transition states for compute, virtualization, storage, backup, data protection, and disaster recovery across office locations, including capacity, performance, resilience, and growth for the next five years. One set of documents, one owner.
- Technology decisions. Server, hypervisor and private cloud platform, storage, backup, replication, and data center network integration. You evaluate, benchmark, recommend, and decide within the standards agreed with the SVP, and you document why.
- The platform build. Lead the design, installation, configuration, hardening, and acceptance of the Audubon platform and the Limerick recovery site: servers and GPU nodes, the private cloud platform, the storage array, the backup estate, and the integration with the network and identity layers. Define the acceptance tests and sign the gates: power and failover tested, restore inside the agreed time, DR exercise passed.
- Oracle and application landing. Design the platform the Globus One Oracle database, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and the data and AI stack land on; work with the database, collaboration, and data teams on sizing, placement, performance, and cutover readiness.
- Backup and disaster recovery. The recovery architecture: replication between sites, backup policy and retention, immutability, restore testing, recovery time and recovery point objectives per system, and the annual DR exercise. Backup restored and DR tested, not assumed.
- Proposals and business cases. Write the technical sections of capital requests and business cases: options, costs over three to five years, risks, and the recommendation. Present to the CFO and CEO when asked. Numbers you can defend, not adjectives.
- Vendor selection and agreements. Lead the technical side of selection, proof of concept, and negotiation for hardware, software, maintenance, and services: requirements, evaluation criteria, bills of materials, reference checks, and the technical terms of agreements, working with the IT vendor and asset management lead and legal. Hold vendors to what they signed.
- Standards and the center of excellence. Set and publish the infrastructure standards, reference architectures, build books, naming, and configuration baselines; establish the review that every infrastructure change passes through; mentor the infrastructure engineers in Audubon and Chennai so the standards outlive you.
- Security by design. Build the platform to the CISO's requirements from the first drawing: segmentation, privileged access, hardening baselines, logging to the SIEM, encryption at rest and in transit, and audited change. Every touch recorded.
- Operability. Design for the people who will run it: monitoring, capacity reporting, patching, lifecycle, runbooks, and the handover to operations in Chennai and the US. A platform nobody can operate at 2 a.m. is not finished.
- Adheres to the letter and spirit of the company Code of Conduct, the AdvaMed Code, MedTech Code, and all other company policies.
- Ensures Compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations, both in the United States and internationally, by completing introductory and annual training and maintaining knowledge of compliance as it applies to your role.
- Represents the company in a professional manner and upholds the highest standards of ethical business practices and socially responsible conduct in all interactions with other employees, customers, suppliers, and other third parties.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years in enterprise infrastructure, with at least 5 years as the architect accountable for a data center scale platform end to end: compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
- You have built or rebuilt a private cloud at scale, including at least one VMware exit or migration to an alternative platform (Nutanix, Hyper V, Proxmox, KVM based, or equivalent), and can speak to what went wrong.
- Deep, current, hands on knowledge of enterprise server platforms (Lenovo, Dell, HPE), all flash storage (Pure, NetApp, Dell), backup and replication (Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, or equivalent), and data center networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and site to site replication links.
- Designed and operated disaster recovery that was actually exercised: multi site replication, recovery objectives per system, failover and failback, and immutable backup against ransomware.
- Platformed Tier 1 enterprise databases and applications on premises, Oracle in particular (Oracle Database Appliance, Exadata, or RAC on commodity hardware), including sizing, performance, licensing implications, and cutover.
- Written and presented capital requests and business cases to finance and executive audiences, with three to five year total cost of ownership and a recommendation you defended.
- Led the technical side of hardware, software, and services selection and negotiation: requirements, proof of concept, bill of materials, and acceptance terms. Comfortable reading a maintenance contract.
- Built to a security baseline: segmentation, privileged access, hardening standards, logging, encryption, audited change. You have worked alongside a CISO or security function as a partner, not an obstacle.
- Clear writer and plain speaker. Your architecture documents are read, and executives understand your recommendation in one page.
Strongly preferred:
- Regulated industry experience: medical devices, pharma, healthcare, or financial services, with validation, audit, and change control obligations.
- Experience landing Microsoft server workloads on premises (SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server high availability) and integrating with a hardened Microsoft 365 tenant.
- GPU compute and storage design for data and AI workloads (NVIDIA based nodes, high throughput storage, container platforms).
- Cloud exit or repatriation experience: moving a database or application estate from OCI, AWS, or Azure to owned infrastructure.
- Experience mentoring engineers across sites and time zones; India delivery exposure is a plus.
- Relevant certifications are welcome but secondary to evidence: Nutanix NCP or NCM, VMware VCAP or VCDX, Pure or NetApp, Veeam VMCA, Oracle, TOGAF.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands listed here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
- Required to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
- Required to possess specific visons abilities, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and capacity to adjust focus.
Our Values:
Our Life Moves Us philosophy is built on four values: Passionate About Innovation, Customer Focused, Teamwork, and Driven.
Passionate about Innovation: Improving patient care by delivering advanced technology to our customers is at the core of what we do. We are passionate in our role in improving the lives of patients by continuously developing better solutions.
Customer Focused: We listen to our customers’ needs and respond with a sense of urgency.
Teamwork: Working together, anything is possible. We value every person on our team and treat each other with respect. We are accountable to one another and support each other. Together, we make each other stronger.
Driven: We pursue our mission with energy and passion. We are nimble, results-oriented and decisive. We overcome obstacles that arise in our quest to deliver solutions that will improve the lives of our customers and patients.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Globus Medical is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, national origin or citizenship. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees’ talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.