Senior Cloud Engineer
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.7 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design AWS architectures and own architectural decisions, standards, and technical direction.
- Lead legacy application modernization and lift-and-shift migrations to AWS.
- Build and maintain standardized, resilient, secure, automated hybrid cloud infrastructure services.
- Develop technical designs and requirements for cloud application and system integrations.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tools.
- Establish cloud infrastructure operating procedures and runbooks.
- Advance platform management, configuration automation, troubleshooting, and uptime.
- Collaborate with IT, Security, DevOps, cloud architects, and external strategic partners.
- Mentor junior cloud engineers and facilitate cross-team technical learning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining AWS and Azure multi-cloud environments.
- Deep expertise in Hub-and-Spoke architectures, AWS Transit Gateway, network micro-segmentation, Zero Trust security models, and cloud-agnostic solutions.
- Expert knowledge of cloud networking, including VPC/VNet peering, next-generation firewalls, WAFs, DNS, and Layer 4/7 load balancers.
- Experience building IaaS and PaaS implementation frameworks using automation workflows and DevOps principles.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
- Experience embedding governance, vulnerability remediation, and NIST and CIS Benchmarks compliance frameworks into cloud environments.
- Experience collaborating with cloud architects and security teams on cloud infrastructure implementation and security.
- Experience working in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, adaptability, business acumen, and willingness to learn new technologies.
- Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, AKS, EKS, AWS Bedrock, AWS SageMaker, regulated workloads, and hybrid cloud solutions.
- AWS certification is highly advantageous.
Benefits
- Remote position with the ideal candidate based in the UK, Ireland, or the European Union.
- Opportunity to contribute to global digital transformation and drug-development initiatives.
- Mentoring, knowledge-sharing, continuous learning, and cross-team technical growth opportunities.