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.
Do you have expertise in Cloud Engineering?
Are you a Subject Matter Expert in AWS?
Charles River Laboratories is looking for an energetic professional to provide engineering and architecture expertise within the Global Infrastructure Services team as an individual contributor and part of a cross functional team of engineers.
The Senior Cloud Engineer will be an integral component in delivering effective and secure end-to-end cloud infrastructure technology solutions.
This role will require a mix of subject matter expertise in cloud computing technologies along with legacy data center environments. You will be challenged to find approaches that enable rapid adoption of new cloud services and drive transformation for our business and IT processes. The cloud engineer will take part in infrastructure as code deployment tooling and supporting services.
Through excellence in delivery, they will help to achieve and maintain a high level of employee engagement, customer satisfaction and team productivity.
This is a remote position, with the ideal candidate based in the UK/IRL or EU.
Supporting the digital transformation initiative and cloud strategy by designing and implementing cloud migrations and services as part of a dedicated team of engineers.
Contributing to a high performing team that delivers consumable, standardized hybrid cloud infrastructure services and solutions (resilient, high quality, secure, highly automated and up to date).
Collaborating and consulting with other IT practices to support technical solution development and deployment.
Working with external strategic partners to develop and deliver technical solutions.
Certification/Licensure: AWS certification would be highly advantageous.
Please note that this role is advertising across a number of locations and as such salaries and benefits vary based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications and geographic location.
If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us. This is Your Moment.
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.
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 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.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

At Charles River, we are guided by our strong purpose—to create healthier lives—which centers around the patients who rely on the therapeutics we help to develop, the animals in our care, to our planet, and to the passionate and skilled people who are at the heart of our organization and make it all possible.
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