Senior Data & DevOps Engineer

At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

Job Summary

Sr. Data & DevOps Engineer

About the Job: There’s never been a more exciting time to be on the Analytics team at Charles River Labs!

Charles River Labs is on an exciting journey to modernize the data landscape, building a Customer 360, implementing new data standards, bringing to life the ‘art of the possible’ to our business partners, integrating with several new data sources, and ultimately building a brand-new Modern Data Warehouse in Azure. If you are an engineer who enjoys cloud technologies, data warehousing, data analytics, and designing innovative analytical solutions, this job may be for you! This role will work collaboratively, in a consultative way, across the business units and IT, supporting and mentoring engineering teams and advising on the best approaches to leveraging Azure most effectively and efficiently.

The team is seeking top-notch talent in the Microsoft Azure full data stack and modern data toolset. If you are interested in using your leadership, expertise, and innovative skills to build something brand new, enjoy making architectural decisions, are a thought leader in the data space, have a passion for data and analytics, and like to mentor others, then we want to talk to you! A truly exciting and unique opportunity awaits you!

Note: It’s a fully remote home-based role for professionally qualified and experienced candidates based in India, who are willing and open to work UK shifts.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong and extensive hands-on Experience with Azure cloud big data architecture
• Good understanding of Microsoft Azure security, privacy, and compliance.
• Implement best practices for Azure services authentication using service principals and managed identities.
• Familiarity with Azure resources service level agreements (SLA), and pricing for planning and cost management.
• Configure and manage Azure virtual network, define Inbound and outbound rules.
• Manage source control with GitHub best practices and define standards for the pull request (PR) process.
• Define and manage a release workflow to update the latest code to the corresponding environments.
• Build continuous integration (CI) pipelines with GitHub actions.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline, Master’s Degree preferred
• 4+ years of Microsoft Azure experience or equivalent with AWS or GPC.
• 3+ years of experience implementing automated deployments with GitHub integration and CI/CD pipelines.
• 5+ years of experience in defining GitHub branching strategy for Dev, TEST, PROD, and Hotfix deployments.
• 2+ years of experience automating infrastructure as code using Terraform templates.
• 5+ years of experience in scripting with bash, PowerShell, and Azure CLI.
• 3+ years of experience supporting Azure resources by monitoring diagnostics logs and alerts.
• 2+ years of experience in defining security strategy for Azure resources with networking and firewall rules.
• 2+ years of experience in defining and managing access control strategy for Azure resources.
• Understand different types of storage (filesystem, relation, MPP, NoSQL) and work with various kinds of data (structured, unstructured, metrics, logs, etc.)
• 6+ years of experience working with SQL.
  
  

About Corporate Functions The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

About Charles RiverCharles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Disabled/Vet.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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