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Associate Director, AWS Cloud Engineering

Corcept Therapeutics63 open roles

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$185,000 – $240,000 a year
Where
Redwood City, California, United States
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Your applicationOpen nowAssociate Director, AWS Cloud EngineeringCorcept Therapeutics · Redwood City, California, United States

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Corcept Therapeutics median: 66 days open

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For more than 25 years, Corcept has been singularly focused on the science of cortisol, a powerful hormone that when unregulated, can play a role in a broad range of diseases.

Our commercial portfolio includes treatments for hypercortisolism and oncology, and the company has discovered more than 1,000 proprietary selective cortisol modulators and glucocorticoid receptor antagonists. With advanced clinical trials in patients with hypercortisolism, solid tumors, ALS and liver disease, Corcept is unlocking the power of cortisol modulation to help address some of the most devastating diseases patients face today.

Corcept is headquartered in Redwood City, California. To learn more, visit www.corcept.com.

The Associate Director of AWS Cloud Engineering will report to the Director of IT and provide technical leadership for Corcept’s AWS cloud environment, taking the lead on cloud architecture, engineering, and the AWS technology roadmap. This role will partner closely with IT, Cybersecurity, Biometrics, Quality, business teams, and managed service providers to ensure AWS environments are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with business needs.

The role will have a strong focus on supporting Biometrics and GxP environments while establishing AWS standards and building cloud engineering expertise within the Infrastructure team. The Associate Director will also provide technical oversight of managed service providers supporting day-to-day AWS operations.

This is a hybrid role, typically requiring on-site presence 4 days per week.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the technical lead for AWS, providing architecture and engineering direction across cloud initiatives and supporting the development and execution of the AWS roadmap
  • Define AWS architecture, engineering standards, and best practices across networking, compute, storage, identity, security, backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery
  • Provide technical leadership for AWS environments supporting Biometrics and GxP workloads, partnering with Quality, application owners, and business teams to meet infrastructure, validation, and compliance requirements
  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable and resilient AWS solutions supporting new applications, business growth, and infrastructure modernization
  • Provide technical oversight and direction to managed service providers supporting AWS operations, ensuring services, changes, and solutions meet Corcept’s technical, security, and operational standards
  • Partner with the Infrastructure and Cybersecurity teams to strengthen AWS security, access controls, monitoring, vulnerability management, backup, recovery, and operational readiness
  • Drive standardization and automation of the AWS environment, including Infrastructure as Code, account and network standards, monitoring, and repeatable deployment practices
  • Lead technical reviews and provide guidance for AWS projects, infrastructure changes, migrations, and new cloud services
  • Ensure AWS architecture, configurations, operational documentation, and critical technical knowledge are maintained internally and are not solely dependent on external service providers
  • Identify opportunities to improve AWS reliability, performance, cost management, operational efficiency, and overall cloud maturity
  • Partner with IT and cross-functional teams to understand business and application requirements and translate them into appropriate cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Mentor Infrastructure team members and help build AWS technical capabilities and cloud engineering knowledge within the organization
  • Communicate AWS strategy, architecture decisions, technical risks, and recommendations to IT leadership and key stakeholders
  • Uphold Corcept’s Key Principles by driving collaboration, embracing possibilities, following the data, and leading by doing, ensuring all initiatives align with the Company’s ethics and patient-first principles

Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Technical Proficiencies:

  • Strong understanding of Life Sciences business processes, requirements and IT systems supporting drug discovery, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, contracts, HR, and Finance
  • Strong AWS architecture and engineering experience supporting enterprise production environments
  • Deep technical knowledge of AWS networking, compute, storage, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery services
  • Experience with AWS Organizations, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Security Hub, AWS Backup, and related AWS technologies
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking, Active Directory, identity federation, DNS, routing, firewalls, and hybrid cloud environments
  • Experience with AWS WorkSpaces, FSx for NetApp ONTAP, SAS, Posit, or similar scientific and analytics platforms is preferred
  • Experience providing technical direction and oversight to managed service providers and cloud consulting partners
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to work at both the architecture and hands-on engineering level
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and IT leadership

Preferred Education and Experience:

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical discipline is required
  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or related IT disciplines
  • 5+ years of hands-on AWS architecture and engineering experience
  • 5+ years of experience providing technical leadership, including leading engineering teams, managed service providers, and cross-functional technology initiatives
  • Experience supporting cloud infrastructure in Life Sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or another regulated industry is preferred
  • Experience supporting GxP environments, infrastructure qualification, and formal change-control processes is preferred
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or similar AWS certification preferred

The pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this headquarters-based position is $185,000-$240,000; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on legitimate considerations, including geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

For information on how Corcept collects, uses, discloses, protects, and otherwise processes personal information and an explanation of the rights and choices available to you with respect to your personal information, please refer to our Privacy Notice link.

Corcept appreciates the commitment and hard work of all our team members as we strive to discover and develop novel treatments for patients with serious unmet medical needs.

Please visit our website at: https://www.corcept.com/

Corcept is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Corcept will not conduct interviews via text message or messaging platforms and will not ask you to download anything as part of your interview. Though we use third-party tools to help with advertising our jobs, please be vigilant in checking that the communication is in fact coming from Corcept.

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