Danaher
Cloud Platform Tech Lead
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Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Abcam, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Progress happens together
At Abcam, we believe the scientific community goes further, faster when we go there together. That’s why we work with life scientists to provide biological reagents and solutions that enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Our talented team of over 1,400 colleagues worldwide is our greatest asset. By applying our expertise and pushing boundaries, together we strive to better serve our customers, strengthen our impact across our industry, and ultimately our positive impact on society.
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The Role
The Cloud Platform Lead is responsible for the engineering, delivery, automation, and continual improvement of the enterprise cloud platform, with AWS as the primary cloud provider and Azure supporting specific business and technology requirements.
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Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the Platform Technology Lead delivers cloud platform capabilities, infrastructure automation, self-service services, and operational improvements that enable faster, safer, and more reliable technology delivery.
This position reports to the Global Reliability Manager and is part of the Digital Product Development located in Cambridge and will be a hybrid role to cover solution for Abcam Global Operations.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Deliver enhancements across networking, identity, connectivity, compute, storage, and container platforms. Implementing governance, resilience, recoverability, and operational readiness requirements.
- Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and CloudFormation. Drive GitOps and automation-first practices while reducing manual processes.
- Ensure infrastructure provisioning is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, and secure.
- Build and maintain reusable modules, templates, and deployment pipelines.
- Establish engineering quality standards for infrastructure code.
The Essentials
The essential requirements of the job include:
- 5+ years' experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
- 2+ years' experience leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership.
- Strong experience designing, building, and operating AWS platforms in enterprise environments with strong understanding of cloud networking, connectivity, and identity management.
- Experience supporting business-critical production platforms.
- AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications.
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Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Ability to travel – list specifics 10% travel, overnight, within territory or locations
- Must have a valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Microsoft Azure and Azure Landing Zones.
- Platform Engineering and SRE operating models.
- GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
- Observability and monitoring platforms.
Benefits
Abcam, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
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