Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific regions.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Unit Overview

This position is part of Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services global team.  Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations.  Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing.  The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Job Summary

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing the core cloud infrastructure within the Novanta public cloud. Your expertise will contribute to the successful deployment and maintenance of cloud-based solutions. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring that the foundational elements supporting cloud applications and services are robust, secure, and scalable.

Primary Responsibilities

Design and Deployment

• Plan, analyze, and design enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Deploy and configure compute & storage resources, including Virtual Machines, web services.
• Implement best practices for high availability, scalability, and security.

Infrastructure Management

• Maintain and optimize existing server and storage environments.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure efficient resource utilization.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and engineering teams to manage on-premises and hybrid cloud systems.
• Familiarization with auto-scaling techniques for enterprise application support.

Automation and DevOps

• Use tools like Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Streamline development and deployment processes for public cloud workloads.
• Knowledge and experience with Atlassian JIRA for agile deployment methodologies.

Security and Compliance

• Implement security controls and adhere to compliance standards.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and execution.
• Monitor and address security vulnerabilities.
• Support global audit support

Documentation and Collaboration

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, architects, and network engineers.

Required Experience, Education, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field a plus or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Azure services such as Active Directory and IAM.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps, and GitHub).
• Demonstrated knowledge of networking concepts, security, and compliance.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%

Physical Requirements

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
• Ability to use vison to read computer screen and read printed materials

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.