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
IT Engineer – Backup & Recovery Level 3
For nearly 70 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development, and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales, or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
ROLE SUMMARY: CRL is seeking an energetic professional to provide engineering and architecture expertise in the Global Technology group as a member of a cross-functional team. The Global Technology team is accountable for technology at a global scale, supporting 20,000 employees across 100 locations. The Backup and Recovery Engineer Level 3 is key to delivering effective and secure technologies for on-prem and cloud environments. The role requires a mix of expertise in cloud computing, on-prem virtual infrastructure, and backup and recovery technologies. You will create solutions to enable the appropriate backup and recovery methodologies for multi-region, hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Note: It’s a fully remote home-based role for professionally qualified and experienced candidates based in India, who are willing and open to work UK shifts.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Design, implement, and manage backup and recovery technologies in global data centers, sites, and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
• Be an escalation point for operational support teams to troubleshoot complex issues
• Ensure backup and recovery solutions achieve RTO\RPO targets
• Design and maintain capacity and licensing reports
• Plan and coordinate hardware and software upgrade cycles
• Document technical designs and procedures for compliance and support teams
• Advise Technical Product Owner and management on service enhancements.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or related discipline.
Experience:
• At least 5 years of experience in the IT field in large enterprise environments
• At least 4 years of experience with VMware
• At least 4 years hands-on experience managing Rubrik, AWS Backup, and\or Azure Backup
• 1-2 years of experience with hybrid and\or public cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing backup and recovery technologies in multi-region, on-prem, or public cloud environments
• Experience managing backup and recovery technologies for both physical and virtual server infrastructures hosting Windows, Linux, Oracle, and SQL.
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 supported the development of ~70% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2016. For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disabled/Vet
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 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.
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 crrecruitment_US@crl.com. 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.
