Senior Data & Dev Ops Engineer - Azure; REMOTE

Position: Senior Data & Dev Ops Engineer - Azure (REMOTE)
This job is with Charles River, an inclusive employer and a member of my Gwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

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   At Charles River Laboratories, we're transforming how we work by harnessing the power of AI, data, and digital innovation to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving therapies. Our vision is to embed artificial intelligence and advanced analytics across every stage of our scientific and operational workflows-empowering our teams with smarter tools, seamless data, and actionable insights to deliver client-centric services and solutions that better serve our customers and, ultimately, improve patients' lives.
If you're a Senior Data & Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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.
Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline, Master's Degree preferred

Experience (essential):

• Minimum of 7 years related experience in Data and Dev Ops 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…