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We improve everyday access to affordable, innovative medicines and health products for millions of people worldwide, with a broad portfolio of generic, biosimilar, innovative branded pharmaceuticals and consumer health products. Headquartered in Toronto, with regional offices globally, including in the United States, Mexico and India, we are the largest Canadian-based pharmaceutical company and a health partner of choice for the Americas for pharmaceutical licensing and product acquisitions.\nFor more information visit: www.apotex.com.\nJob Summary\nThe Team Lead, Cloud & Infrastructure is responsible for the delivery, support, security, modernization and continuous improvement of Apotex’s enterprise IT infrastructure services across all global regions. This role ensures all critical IT infrastructure is highly available, secure, compliant and scalable to support the current and future demands of the required pharmaceutical business functions.\nThe Team Lead will be responsible for leading and developing the Platform Support team, managing external vendors and project delivery activities, establishing operational priorities, maintaining regulatory compliance, and driving operational excellence and continuous service improvement. The role is accountable for fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.\nThis role also contributes to infrastructure standards, documentation, cyber security directives, disaster recovery planning, mergers and acquisition activities while serving as an escalation point for critical incidents and resolution of complex technical challenges.\nJob Responsibilities\nProvide infrastructure leadership by supporting day to day operations including mentorship and promoting collaboration across global GIS teams\nLead, mentor, and develop infrastructure team members by supporting capability development, knowledge transfer, succession planning, and continuous learning initiatives.\nManage operational support for all virtualization, cloud, storage and security related infrastructure by ensuring infrastructure uptime metrics are met while performing preventative maintenance and root cause elimination activities\nOwn the operational health, availability, security, performance, and continuous improvement of enterprise cloud and infrastructure services, ensuring service levels, resiliency objectives, and business expectations are consistently achieved.\nMaintain validated infrastructure and support qualification, CAPA and audit readiness requests\nWork closely with cyber security team to implement security best practices not exclusive to remediation of vulnerabilities, coordination of infrastructure patching and managing identity security.\nAssist in annual cyber & disaster recovery planning, testing and documentation upkeep\nOversee infrastructure monitoring platforms leveraging capabilities such as event management, alert notification and performance tuning\nGuide cloud operations covering landing zones, governance, security, cost optimization, hybrid architecture, resiliency and recovery constructs\nLead or contribute to infrastructure roadmaps, including technology refreshes, capacity planning, lifecycle and cyber security management.\nSupport all facets of the ITSM environment driving best practices in areas such as vendor, incident and change management as well CMDB accuracy and technical debt elimination and removal of technical debt\nLead and deliver infrastructure project workstreams end-to-end from discovery, design, build, test, cutover and transition to operations phases.\nDrive continuous improvement through techniques not limited to infrastructure automation, standardization, process simplification, post incident reviews and root cause analysis\nDemonstrate Behaviours that exhibit our organizational Values: Integrity, Courage, Teamwork, and Innovation.\nEnsure personal adherence with all compliance programs including the Global Business Ethics and Compliance Program, Global Quality policies and procedures, Safety and Environment policies, and HR policies.\nAll other relevant duties as assigned.\nJob Requirements\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience\nCertifications (Desired, Not Mandatory):CAPM or strong ability to execute on highly time sensitive projects\nITIL Foundation or equivalent service management knowledge\nISC2 or other security related accreditation\nMicrosoft / Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Windows Server, Identity)\nVMware, Hyper-V or Nutanix certifications\nCitrix & Linux knowledge or certifications\n\nKnowledge, Skills and AbilitiesLead complex technical multi workstream projects targeted towards modernization, cyber security, and other transformation initiatives by reporting on status, risk mitigation and delivering on time and within budget\nHands-on experience administering servers, virtualization platforms, cloud and hybrid architectures, identity and access management, networking, storage and backup, monitoring, DevOps best practices.\nUtilize various facets of the ITSM lifecycle from Incident to Problem Management to meet service level, performance reporting objectives and drive root cause analysis to completion.\nDisplay strong leadership competencies in a fast-paced environment such as providing mentorship, building high performance teams, setting operational priorities, effective delegation and quick conflict resolution.\nTroubleshoot across all infrastructure layers and act as a senior escalation point.\nPerform annual DR & CR testing outlining RPO/RTO requirements defining recovery sequencing and dependency mapping\nFamiliarity with GxP, GMP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ITL and Computer System Validation (CSV)\nDemonstrate a strong analytical problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.\nBe well-organized, proactive and effectively manage competing priorities.\nDemonstrate ownership and accountability of outcomes.\n\nExperience5+ years of people leadership experience leading infrastructure, cloud, platform, or operations teams within complex enterprise environments.\n10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure leadership roles within global infrastructure enterprise environments\n8+ years of leading complex projects and teams particularly targeted towards recovery implementation and testing, mergers and acquisitions, modernization / transformation initiatives and security hardening efforts\nProven experience managing mission critical enterprise infrastructure in 24 x 7\nNice to have - pharma / manufacturing background as well as knowledge of regulatory, compliance and industrialized OT (operational technology) environments\n\nAt Apotex, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and accessible work environment, where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to succeed.\nWe offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities as part of the recruitment process. If you are contacted to arrange for an interview or testing, please advise us if you require accommodation.\nThe hiring range for this position is $95,594.40 to $133,832.16 CAD per year. The final agreed-upon salary may vary based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills and experience.\nWe are looking for top talent. If your qualifications differ from those listed above, the scope of work and final agreed-upon salary may be adjusted to reflect your individual qualifications.\nThe Apotex Total Rewards package goes beyond base salary. Apotex offers bonus programs based on your position in the organization, you can excel based on our pay-for-performance philosophy. 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