Head of Infrastructure

Function Health•Canada, KS

About The Position

Function Health is hiring a hands-on Head of Infrastructure within Engineering, Product & Data (EPD), reporting to the Sr. Director of Engineering. The role owns Site Reliability Engineering and the infrastructure platform—including databases, compute, containers, networking, and cross-service and VPC communication—across Function Health, Ezra, Suppco, and Getlabs. The leader will design the long-term infrastructure architecture for the company's growth and international expansion, including multi-region deployment, data residency, latency, and compliance boundaries. They will establish reliability and cost standards, including SLOs, on-call practices, and incident response, to support a growing member base and multiple businesses on the platform. This is a leadership role that combines team direction with hands-on technical work. The Head of Infrastructure will lead and grow the Infrastructure team while participating in design reviews, architecture decisions, infrastructure and deployment trade-offs, and critical incidents. They will also partner with EPD, Security, Clinical/Compliance stakeholders, and executives.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including at least 3 years leading teams.
A track record of progression from hands-on engineering to technical leadership.
Experience scaling a platform through a major growth stage, such as a multiple-fold increase in users, traffic, or services.
Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, containers and orchestration, networking (including VPC design and cross-service communication), and production database operations.
Experience designing for multi-region deployment, data residency, or other compliance-driven architecture; has shipped or led a multi-region or regulated-data design.
Experience defining and operating reliability programs, including SLOs, on-call rotations, incident command, and blameless postmortems.
Ability to explain trade-offs among reliability, speed, cost, and security to engineers and executives.
Hands-on technical credibility, including the ability to review designs and debug production systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, health technology, or other regulated environments, including HIPAA, SOC 2, or international privacy regimes.
Experience integrating infrastructure across acquired companies or multiple business units.
Familiarity with FinOps practices and tooling.
Interest in leading AI and developer productivity, including AI tooling and enablement across EPD and DevX tooling toward an agentic-first Software Factory.

Responsibilities

Own the infrastructure platform end to end, leading SRE and infrastructure across Function Health, Ezra, Suppco, and Getlabs.
Design and drive long-term infrastructure architecture for international expansion, including multi-region topology, data residency, latency, and compliance boundaries.
Establish and enforce reliability standards, including SLOs, error budgets, on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem processes.
Improve infrastructure cost visibility and efficiency; make build, buy, and consolidation decisions and manage unit costs as usage grows.
Align infrastructure practices, tooling, and networking across acquired companies while reducing duplication and risk and preserving delivery speed.
Hire, coach, and set direction for infrastructure and SRE engineers while remaining hands-on in design reviews, architecture decisions, and critical incidents.
Partner with engineering and product leaders, Security, and Clinical/Compliance stakeholders on infrastructure, deployment, and regulatory trade-offs.
Work with executives on infrastructure roadmap, investment, and risk.