Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion's four major groups of products include: aortic stent grafts, surgical sealants, On-X mechanical heart valves, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. Artivion has over 1,600 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries.

The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website,

We are seeking a Senior Manager of Infrastructure Operations & Strategy to provide operational, technical, and people leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, engineering, and platform services across servers, storage platforms, cloud connectivity, data center services, monitoring, service restoration, and related resilience capabilities. The role translates enterprise technology direction into infrastructure roadmaps, standards, investment priorities, modernization plans, and measurable operational outcomes while ensuring appropriate risk, compliance, and resilience controls are embedded into infrastructure architecture and operations.

This role manages infrastructure operations, contributes to the infrastructure roadmap, supports service reliability objectives, capacity and lifecycle planning, operational support processes, vendor and partner performance, and financial stewardship for the infrastructure portfolio. The Senior Manager supports annual budgeting, forecasting, capital and operating expense planning, budget variance management, and cost optimization while aligning infrastructure investments with business priorities, risk tolerance, and enterprise technology strategy.

The successful candidate is expected to lead engineers, operations teams, and cross-functional partners while remaining sufficiently technical to guide architecture decisions, coordinate high-severity incident response, and support senior leadership communication during critical events. The role balances strategy execution, operational excellence, financial discipline, governance, and measurable improvement in service availability, resiliency, performance, scalability, and modernization.

• Manage day-to-day infrastructure operations across server, virtualization, cloud, storage, backup, data center, and core platform services, including monitoring, incident response, change execution, service restoration, and escalation management.
• Lead the design, implementation, modernization, and lifecycle management of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure to meet availability, performance, scalability, recoverability, compliance, and supportability requirements.
• Execute infrastructure strategy, standards, and roadmap priorities; prioritize initiatives based on business value, service reliability, risk reduction, technical debt, regulatory requirements, and total cost of ownership.
• Maintain operational discipline through ITSM practices, operating metrics, SOPs, runbooks, knowledge management, post-incident reviews, and continuous service improvement.
• Oversee platform configuration, patching, capacity, performance, observability, automation, and standardization across Windows, Linux, virtualization, cloud, storage, and backup environments.
• Manage enterprise data protection capabilities, including SAN, NAS, object storage, backup, replication, immutable storage, and cloud storage, ensuring data durability, encryption, retention alignment, and recoverability.
• Coordinate infrastructure readiness for new systems, acquisitions, integrations, site changes, manufacturing requirements, and major business or technology initiatives.

• Assist with infrastructure financial planning, including annual operating and capital budgets, multi-year investment planning, forecasting, and budget variance management.
• Manage assigned vendor spend, licensing, maintenance contracts, cloud consumption, hardware refresh cycles, managed services, and infrastructure project financials.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Network, IT…