Associate Director, AWS Cloud Engineering
Corcepttherapeutics · Redwood City, California, United States
About this role
**Associate Director, AWS Cloud Engineering** Corcept is focused on the science of cortisol and developing treatments for hypercortisolism and oncology. With advanced clinical trials and a growing portfolio of proprietary selective cortisol modulators and glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, Corcept is working to address serious diseases with a patient-first approach. ## Role Overview The Associate Director of AWS Cloud Engineering will report to the Director of IT and provide technical leadership for Corcept’s AWS cloud environment. This role leads cloud architecture, engineering, and the AWS technology roadmap, partnering 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. This role has a strong focus on supporting **Biometrics and GxP** environments while establishing AWS standards and building cloud engineering expertise within the Infrastructure team. You will also provide technical oversight of managed service providers supporting day-to-day AWS operations. **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 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 design and implementation of scalable, resilient AWS solutions for 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 Infrastructure and Cybersecurity 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/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 - Identify opportunities to improve AWS reliability, performance, cost management, operational efficiency, and overall cloud maturity - Partner with IT and cross-functional teams to translate business and application requirements into cloud infrastructure solutions - Mentor Infrastructure team members and build AWS technical capabilities 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 ## Preferred Skills / Qualifications / Technical Proficiencies - Strong understanding of Life Sciences business processes and IT systems supporting drug discovery, clinical t
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