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.
If you're a Senior Data & DevOps Engineer who thrives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and AI innovation, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact. In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor and hands-on expert, partnering across business units and IT to architect and optimize our Azure-based enterprise data platform. You’ll mentor engineering teams, champion best practices, and drive automation and scalability through modern DevOps and data engineering tools. We’re looking for someone who brings deep expertise in the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem, a passion for building resilient, future-ready platforms, and a desire to shape the next generation of data and AI capabilities at Charles River. If you’re energized by solving complex challenges, influencing architectural decisions, and enabling transformative analytics, we’d love to connect with you.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Build, administer and deploy key infrastructure within the Azure Cloud supporting a wide variety of technology solutions.
- Working specifically with services in Azure such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Azure Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Azure App Service.
- Build core cloud infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure As Code).
- Manage code, CI/CD pipelines and documentation via Azure DevOps platform.
- Define and manage release workflows to update latest code to the corresponding environments.
- Enable developers with automation of deployments and testing frameworks
- Document, implement and audit security and access permissions for the data platform.
- Monitor nightly data pipelines to meet SLAs.
- Respond to alerts across many services related to the EDH platform providing timely and effective solutions.
- Create and standardize user communications for operations failures.
- Work within Agile squads delivering first in class technology solutions.
This position will work remote from home office located in India.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline, Master’s Degree preferred
- Minimum of 7 years related experience in Data and DevOps Engineering
- Minimum 5 years hands-on experience building infrastructure and technology solutions within the Azure cloud. Experience with the following services is preferable Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Azure Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure DNS, Virtual Network, Azure App Service.
- Hands on experience administering and using source control systems (GitHub, Azure DevOps).
- Hands on experience developing and maintaining CI\CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferable).
- Hands on experience deploying cloud Infrastructure As Code.
- Hands on experience automating processes using coded solutions (Powershell, Python preferable).
- Experience working with Agile squads
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team.
- Capability to conduct performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation.
- Interface with key customers from all functional areas.
- Proven and recent experience of implementing solutions from requirements gathering and process design to functional production deployment.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
Experience (preferred):
- Administering relational database management systems (RDMS).
- Experience in ETL design, development, and performance tuning in general.
- Experience managing and governing cloud costs.
- Experience working with other public cloud technologies AWS, GCP.
- Experience working with MS Fabric.
Experience working AI tool stack in Azure.
Other:
- Excellent analytical and organization skills
- Ability to understand and translate business and end user requirements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and define desired outcome
Strong attention to detail
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 River
Charles 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 over 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.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, family status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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 [email protected]. 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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