Overview

The Sr Manager, IT Infrastructure Operations role is a Cloud Architect, responsible for designing, implementing, and managing highly scalable cloud-based solutions. The role involves leading the development and administration of platform tools for cloud business solution deployment, defining strategies and protocols for cloud operations, overseeing and innovating processes for improving cloud environment availability, scalability, and efficiency.

This role will report into the Director, IT Infrastructure. This position is hybrid and will be primarily located at Cambridge 300 Third Street.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect cloud-based solutions that are highly scalable and responsive, yet cost-effective.
• Lead the design, implementation, and administration of platform tools to support the release of cloud-based business solutions to both pre-production and production environments.
• Define strategy, procedures, and protocols for day-to-day operations partnering closely with the Technology Leadership team and Managed Service Providers.
• Oversee, innovate, create processes, software, and tooling that continuously improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our cloud environments.
• Transform our cloud environments to run as a fully automated Everything as a Code environment.
• Tackle complex infrastructure challenges with scalable automation and CI/CD solutions.
• Work with teams to create processes and tools to ensure the software release pipeline flows smoothly, safely, and efficiently.
• Build and manage CI/CD workflows and complex system integration.
• Vendor and contract management, including purchasing and pricing negotiation.
• Manage the DevOps team as direct reports providing day-to-day architecture leadership.

(This list is not exhaustive; the job holder may be required to carry out other duties as required to fulfill the role)

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience.
• 6-8 years of proven development and DevOps experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and web applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent required.
• AWS/Azure Solutions Architect Certifications, AWS Certified Architect Professional required.
• Experience in managing hybrid (on-prem and cloud), highly available, multi-tenant, multi-platform service that includes technologies from Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, and NetApp.
• Knowledge of network architecture, storage systems, virtualization technologies, containers.
• Knowledge and ability to work with CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud formation.
• Capacity planning and performance optimization for hardware, VMs, and data stores.
• Data security frameworks and regulatory compliance, such as PCI or HIPAA.

About Alnylam: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALNY) has led the translation of RNA interference (RNAi) into a whole new class of innovative medicines with the potential to transform the lives of people afflicted with rare and more prevalent diseases. Based on Nobel Prize-winning science, RNAi therapeutics represent a powerful, clinically validated approach to treating diseases at their genetic source by “interfering” with mRNA that cause or contribute to disease. Since our founding in 2002, Alnylam has led the RNAi Revolution and continues to turn scientific possibility into reality.

Our culture: Our people-first culture is guided by our core values: fiercely innovative, open culture, purposeful urgency, passion for excellence, and commitment to people, and these values influence how we work and the business decisions we make. Thanks to feedback from our employees over the years, we’ve been fortunate to be named a top employer around the world. Alnylam is extremely proud to have been recognized as the #1 Large Employer by Boston Globe Top Places to Work in 2023 for the third consecutive year, one of Science Magazine’s Top Biopharma Employers, one of America's Most Responsible Companies for 2024 by Newsweek, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and UK – among others.

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. We are dedicated to building an environment where employees can feel that they belong, can bring their authentic selves to work, and achieve to their full potential. By empowering employees to embrace their unique differences at work, our business grows stronger with advanced and original thinking, allowing us to bring groundbreaking medicines to patients. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ethnicity, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics prohibited by law.