Travere Therapeutics
Travere Therapeutics
Travere Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing and delivering therapies for people affected by rare diseases, with a particular focus on kidney and metabolic disorders. Its work spans conditions including IgA nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, supported by collaboration with patient advocacy groups and clinical trial investigators. The company’s portfolio includes a non-immunosuppressive treatment for IgA nephropathy that has received full U.S. FDA approval.

Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering and Operations at Travere Therapeutics (San Diego, Hybrid)

Lead cloud, workplace, and enterprise infrastructure modernization for rare-disease biopharmaceutical company Travere Therapeutics. This player-coach role guides engineers, vendors, security, operations, and resilience.

Description

  • Direct Travere’s modern workplace and core infrastructure teams
  • Oversee the architecture, engineering, modernization, and dependable operation of Microsoft 365, identity and access management, endpoint services, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, enterprise networks, compute, storage, backup and recovery, and monitoring
  • Set and deliver enterprise roadmaps, architecture standards, and lifecycle plans for modern workplace technologies, AWS infrastructure, and Microsoft platforms
  • Design, configure, automate, implement, and troubleshoot complex infrastructure and workplace solutions
  • Guide high-risk technical decisions, major changes, and escalations using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Infrastructure as Code, and other suitable tools
  • Modernize and run platforms to strengthen reliability, security, scalability, performance, supportability, automation, cost efficiency, disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience
  • Work with Cyber Security, Risk, and Quality to establish standards for engineering, configuration, documentation, testing, monitoring, identity, endpoints, Zero Trust, information protection, and lifecycle management
  • Manage and develop infrastructure engineers while overseeing service desk operations, managed service providers, and vendors
  • Collaborate with application, data, AI, security, quality, and business teams to turn requirements into secure, scalable, supportable platforms and guide implementation and operational handoff
  • Oversee budgets, forecasts, Microsoft licensing, cloud usage, contracts, vendor relationships, capacity, technical debt, and investment priorities
  • Present roadmaps, service performance, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to technical and executive audiences
  • Act as a player-coach, with about 60% of the initial role devoted to hands-on technical leadership and delivery

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field
  • Equivalent education and relevant work experience may be considered
  • At least 15 years of progressive experience across enterprise infrastructure, platform engineering, AWS and Microsoft cloud platforms, modern workplace technologies, and technology operations
  • At least 7 years leading technical teams and enterprise platform capabilities
  • Hands-on technical leadership covering people, vendors, budgets, roadmaps, and operational results
  • Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry is strongly preferred
  • Experience supporting GxP environments is a plus
  • Deep expertise in AWS web services infrastructure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Intune, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Graph
  • Strong knowledge of Azure and hybrid cloud architecture, enterprise networking, identity, endpoint engineering, virtualization, storage, backup, recovery, business continuity, scripting, automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and monitoring
  • Experience with Zero Trust, conditional access, identity governance, privileged access, endpoint security, secure cloud configuration, regulated-system controls, IT service management, incident and problem management, change management, service levels, and managed service performance
  • Ability to travel up to 15–30% and meet colleagues in person and/or work onsite in San Diego
  • Strong communication, coaching, stakeholder partnership, vendor management, negotiation, prioritization, and decision-making skills

Benefits

  • Premium health, financial, work-life, and well-being programs for eligible employees and dependents
  • Wellness and employee support programs
  • Life insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • Retirement plans with an employer match
  • Generous paid time off
  • Short-term incentive compensation
  • Long-term incentive compensation through company stock

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