Associate Architect – Infrastructure and Operations
| Company | Blueprint Medicines |
|---|---|
| Location | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant technical experience and 2+ years of experience in a senior role
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Lead or participate in a cross functional team to plan and design information technology solutions
- Identify and implement strategies to optimize infrastructure performance, capacity, and efficiency
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues quickly and effectively, minimizing downtime and impact on business operations.
- Lead cloud infrastructure for corporate application and web servers to ensure high availability and optimal performance
- Design scalable cloud infrastructure for our data analyses and other informatics pipelines
- Maintain production databases and application servers to support research and development efforts
- Mitigate security issues stemming from regular audits of IT systems as needed
- Oversee regular maintenance and testing of remote disaster recovery infrastructure
- Lead and participate in business continuity planning and implementation with a cross functional team
- Lead efforts to improve and optimize existing processes
- Act as mentor and escalation point for colleagues. Lead initiatives with manageable risks and resource requirements
- Collaborate with other IT teams, business units, and stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure infrastructure solutions meet their requirements
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in leading and designing cloud-first infrastructure
- Proficiency in handling mixed Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments
- Proficiency in scripting (unix shell/powershell/aws-cli)
- Proficiency in managing Microsoft 365, including Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, Teams, and SharePoint
- Proficiency in maintaining Oracle, SQL Server, PostgresSQL, and MySQL server databases
- Proficiency in supervising network monitoring/security solutions such as Zabbix, Crowdstrike, and Zscaler
- Proficiency managing campus network solutions including routing, switching, firewalling, and wireless access. Experience with Cisco, FortiNet, and Extreme is a plus.
- Familiarity with maintaining a range of web servers, such as IIS, Nginx, Tomcat, and JBoss
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions such as CloudFormation or Terraform is a plus
- Resourcefulness/Flexibility – The ability to adapt to working optimally within a variety of situations; adapts to change and to changes in job demands
- Communication and Partnership – Ability to optimally express ideas in written and oral context; collaboration, team-building skills and interpersonal skills; genuine desire to be on a team and contribute to organizational and team goals
- Effective Planning – Demonstrated effective time management skills and execution
- Perseverance – Pursues tasks with energy, drive and initiative; comfortable in an accountable environment where you can make an impact
- Problem Solving – Ability to understand a situation or problem by breaking it down into smaller pieces using a detailed approach and to identify patterns and connections between situations that are not obviously related
- Relationship Building – Builds productive working relationships across a diverse spectrum of people
- Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism