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Applied Medical is a new-generation medical device company with a proven business model and commitment to innovation fueled by rapid business growth and expansion. Our company has been developing and manufacturing advanced surgical technologies for over 35 years and has earneda strong reputationfor excellence in the healthcare field. Our unique business model, combined with our dedication to delivering the highest quality products, enables team members to contribute to a larger capacity than is possible in typical positions. 

The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect designs, evolves, and governs the infrastructure platforms that support Applied Medical’s global operations. This senior individual contributor role shapes future-state infrastructure architecture and ensures systems are designed for availability, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational readiness from the outset.

Based in the United States and working onsite in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, this role partners with infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, reliability, information security, application engineering, service management, and regional technology teams to translate strategy into scalable, supportable infrastructure. The role is aligned with enterprise infrastructure architecture and platform architecture positions in complex, high-availability environments.

Location: Onsite – Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

• Define and maintain future-state and target-state infrastructure architectures across on-premises systems, cloud platforms, networking, identity services, observability, resiliency, and foundational infrastructure.
• Develop architecture standards, reference designs, and guardrails that reduce risk, improve consistency, and enable delivery teams to move efficiently.
• Review infrastructure designs for alignment with availability, resiliency, security, scalability, operational readiness, and business objectives.
• Architect systems with failure modes, high availability, disaster recovery, lifecycle management, and recovery requirements as core design considerations.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical decision forums that guide cross-domain consistency, architectural integrity, and long-term platform direction.
• Partner with reliability, operations, security, and service management teams to ensure infrastructure supports observability, incident response, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineering and platform teams through technical guidance, architecture standards, and trusted expertise.
• Evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies with a focus on long-term value, operational maturity, risk reduction, cost effectiveness, and platform stability.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Infrastructure designs reduce unplanned downtime and improve system resilience.
• Architecture standards are clear, trusted, and consistently adopted across teams.
• Operational incidents result in fewer surprises and faster recovery.
• Architecture decisions improve understanding of service ownership, dependencies, and lifecycle risk.
• Infrastructure platforms scale reliably as Applied Medical grows.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

This position requires the following skills and attributes:

• Holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or brings equivalent professional experience.
• Brings 10 or more years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, enterprise architecture, or related technology roles.
• Demonstrates proven experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure with high availability, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational supportability requirements.
• Applies strong technical depth across multiple domains, including cloud platforms, data center infrastructure, networking, identity management, automation, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and foundational infrastructure services.
• Understands how infrastructure architecture decisions affect business continuity, system performance, security, cost, lifecycle management, and operational complexity.
• Develops architecture standards, reference designs, technical roadmaps, implementation guidance, and decision records.
• Reviews infrastructure designs and guides technical teams toward scalable, supportable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
• Mentors and guides senior engineers and technical leaders through trusted expertise, practical standards, and collaborative influence.
• Communicates complex infrastructure concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The following skills and attributes are preferred:

• Brings experience supporting regulated, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences, or high-availability business environments.
• Demonstrates familiarity with service reliability engineering practices, ITIL frameworks, DevOps principles, platform engineering, and service-centric architecture models.
• Designs systems that support real-world incident response, recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, and continuous improvement.
• Shows exposure to enterprise service management platforms, CMDB concepts, infrastructure dependency modeling, or service ownership models.
• Has experience with hybrid infrastructure environments that include on-premises data centers, cloud platforms, networking, identity, automation, observability, and security controls.
• Demonstrates awareness of architecture governance practices such as design reviews, standards development, technical decision records, reference architectures, and exception management.

• Competitive compensation range: $120000 - $165000 / year (California). 
• Comprehensive benefits package. 
• Training and mentorship opportunities. 
• On-campus wellness activities. 
• Education reimbursement program. 
• 401(k) program with discretionary employer match. 
• Generous vacation accrual and paid holiday schedule. 

Please note that the compensation range may be adjusted in the future, and bonus and incentive compensation plans may apply. 

Our total reward package reflects our commitment to employee growth and well-being, as we invest in your development and offer a range of benefits designed to enhance your career and life. 

All compensation and benefits are subject to plan documents and written agreements. 

Equal Opportunity Employer

Applied Medical is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), or sexual orientation, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws in the locations where Applied Medical operates.

This position requires the following skills and attributes:

• Holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or brings equivalent professional experience.
• Brings 10 or more years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, enterprise architecture, or related technology roles.
• Demonstrates proven experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure with high availability, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational supportability requirements.
• Applies strong technical depth across multiple domains, including cloud platforms, data center infrastructure, networking, identity management, automation, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and foundational infrastructure services.
• Understands how infrastructure architecture decisions affect business continuity, system performance, security, cost, lifecycle management, and operational complexity.
• Develops architecture standards, reference designs, technical roadmaps, implementation guidance, and decision records.
• Reviews infrastructure designs and guides technical teams toward scalable, supportable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
• Mentors and guides senior engineers and technical leaders through trusted expertise, practical standards, and collaborative influence.
• Communicates complex infrastructure concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.