Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

At KBI Biopharma, we are advancing science and accelerating breakthroughs. As a global leader in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, we empower life science companies to bring new medicines and vaccines to the world faster. Explore your potential at KBI, where innovation meets impact.

To support KBI's Digital transformation, the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is a key role in the Digital group within the Information Technology department. The Digital group is responsible for transforming KBI by delivering and supporting custom digital products (data and applications). These applications are built using services and cloud technologies provided by Amazon Web Services, and the cloud platform engineering functions collaborate with product teams to build, deploy, monitor, and support these applications.

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is expected to own the design and operations of our cloud infrastructure and continuously seek increased reliability, robustness, and speed of development and deployment of new or existing Digital products, maximizing the Digital group’s impact on KBI’s business.

• Design, build, and operate KBI's AWS-based platform supporting digital products, data platforms, and cloud-native applications.
• Own and evolve KBI's Kubernetes platform (Amazon EKS), including platform architecture, upgrades, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure across development, test, and production environments.
• Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities supporting both GMP and non-GMP workloads.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and related tooling.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions that ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Create self-service platform capabilities, reusable deployment patterns, and engineering standards that improve developer productivity and operational consistency.
• Partner with Quality, Compliance, Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to establish platform governance, security controls, and operational standards.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform enhancements that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native platforms in AWS.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience supporting multi-account AWS environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation solutions.
• Experience with Git Ops methodologies and related tooling.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security architecture, and governance principles.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

$112,480 – $154,660

Salary range provided per current averages and expectations. The salary and job title for this opening will be based on the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience and may be outside this range. KBI offers a robust total rewards strategy that includes an annual bonus structure for all employees, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid PTO and holidays, 401(k) matching with 100% vesting in 60 days, and employee recognition programs.

KBI Biopharma, Inc., a JSR Life Sciences company, is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) providing fully integrated and accelerated drug development and biologics manufacturing services to life science companies. KBI supports its 500+ customers in advancing more than 160 drug candidates from preclinical and clinical stages to market, including the manufacture of ten commercial products. Recognized for…