Principal IT Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Liquidia is deeply passionate and committed to the discovery, engineering, and development required to bring novel therapies to patients who need them most, and to the healthcare providers who care for them. Our current drive is toward improving the treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH). We will continue to combine our proprietary, innovative PRINT® Technology with new and established medications, offering the potential for both better precision and improved clinical outcomes. Our team members include some of the industry’s top scientists, clinicians, business strategists, engineers, and pharmaceutical executives. We work together to help people lead longer, healthier, and happier lives.

The Principal IT Infrastructure Engineer is the senior individual contributor and named technical owner of Liquidia's server, virtualization, cloud, and network estate across Liquidia's facilities, including manufacturing operations, in an environment subject to SOX, GxP, and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations. The role administers the Microsoft Azure environment and on-premises hypervisor and server infrastructure, owns the enterprise network including switching, wireless, security appliances, and redundant internet connectivity, and owns backup, replication, and recovery of the infrastructure estate. The role is expected to perform the work hands on as well as set direction for it, defining the technical roadmap for the environment, identifying and driving improvements, and directing contracted engineering and managed service resources. The role participates in GxP work alongside the Senior Computer Systems Engineer, including qualification and change control of GxP-supporting infrastructure, and builds to the security standards and configuration baselines defined by Cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and operation of the server, storage, virtualization, and network estate across all Liquidia facilities, and define and maintain the technical roadmap for that environment, including capacity, lifecycle, modernization, and the sequencing of security control maturity remediation.
• Administer the Microsoft Azure environment, including subscriptions, virtual networking, infrastructure and platform workloads, hybrid connectivity