Senior Director, Technology Infrastructure & Operations

The Opportunity

Quidel Ortho unites the strengths of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, creating a world-leading in vitro diagnostics company with award‑winning expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing, clinical chemistry and transfusion medicine. We are more than 6,000 strong and do business in over 130 countries, providing answers with fast, accurate and consistent testing where and when they are needed most – home to hospital, lab to clinic.

Our culture puts our team members first and prioritizes actions that support happiness, inspiration and engagement. We strive to build meaningful connections with each other as we believe that employee happiness and business success are linked. Join us in our mission to transform the power of diagnostics into a healthier future for all.

At Quidel Ortho, we’re advancing the power of diagnostics for a healthier future for all. Join our mission as our next Senior Director, Infrastructure & Operations leader to support our enterprise-wide infrastructure and operations strategy. This leader will have direct impact on company wide business outcomes over a multiyear horizon (2-4 years) for Quidel Ortho including business continuity, operational resilience, cybersecurity execution, and end-user experience.

This role is responsible for modernizing and operating core technology services across cloud platforms, networks, compute, storage, collaboration, service management, endpoint technologies, and site infrastructure that support global business operations.

This leader will partner closely with executive stakeholders and functional leaders to define the long-term infrastructure vision, operating model, service portfolio, and investment roadmap aligned with enterprise priorities. The role requires a balance of strategic leadership and operational execution, with accountability for reliability, service quality, cost discipline, and risk management across a highly complex global environment.

The role is remote eligible with the ability to come onsite in San Diego, CA as needed.

• Candidate local or within commutable distance to our headquarters in Sorrento Valley, San Diego, CA are preferred**

• Develop and lead the enterprise infrastructure and operations strategy with accountability for long term functional impact and alignment to business priorities, resiliency objectives, security requirements, and the technology roadmap.
• Own the architecture, delivery, and ongoing operations of core infrastructure services including cloud platforms, networks, compute, storage, identity, collaboration, endpoint management, and site technology.
• Establish and mature an operating model for infrastructure and end-user services that improves reliability, service quality, scalability, and cost effectiveness across global locations.
• Lead cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy, including platform operations, capacity planning, performance optimization, environment standardization, and operational automation.
• Partner closely with cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data and AI, and business teams to ensure infrastructure services meet security, integration, performance, and compliance requirements.
• Oversee IT service management disciplines including incident, problem, change, release, asset, configuration, and request management, with clear service ownership and accountability.
• Define and manage service level objectives, operational KPIs, and executive reporting for uptime, response times, issue resolution, customer satisfaction, and cost performance.
• Lead disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and operational resilience planning to reduce risk and improve recovery readiness across critical systems and sites.
• Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives include automation, observability, standardization, technical debt reduction, and lifecycle management for platforms and hardware.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships, outsourced services and infrastructure partners, including commercial negotiations, performance management, and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Lead global teams across infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, end-user…