Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CenExel Clinical Research is hiring a Platform Engineering Lead to own shared platform and software-delivery capabilities across their full lifecycle. The role leads platform and SRE practices, tooling, automation, cloud foundations, reliability, and developer experience to help engineering teams deliver software efficiently and reliably.
Responsibilities
- Builds trusted partnerships with engineering teams, observes their workflows, and uses developer feedback to translate recurring friction into shared capabilities and measurable improvements
- Owns the full lifecycle of shared platform and software-delivery capabilities—from discovery and prioritization through implementation, adoption, operations, and continuous improvement—allowing the VP of Engineering to focus on engineering leadership and product delivery
- Develops and manages a focused, outcome-driven roadmap spanning delivery tooling, cloud foundations, reusable services, reliability, and developer experience. Makes pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions appropriate for a small team
- Creates reusable, self-service capabilities that enable teams to deliver safely and independently, with appropriate controls embedded in tools, workflows, and automation
- Owns continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), release automation, deployment and rollback capabilities, shared testing platforms, and standards for source-code repositories and branching
- Defines code-review expectations and implements automated quality gates, including branch protections, static analysis, dependency and security scanning, build validation, and automated testing
- Owns cloud platform foundations, infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, secrets and artifact management, shared integration infrastructure, and reusable technical services
- Establishes SRE practices for critical applications and platform services, including observability, service-level objectives, on-call coverage, incident response, problem management, and resilience planning
- Partners with Engineering, IT Operations, Security, and Quality to embed appropriate controls and validation evidence into delivery pipelines and establish clear ownership and escalation paths
- Provides backup leadership during critical infrastructure incidents in partnership with IT Operations, while maintaining clear primary ownership and escalation protocols
- Establishes performance baselines and tracks key measures, including deployment frequency, change lead time, change failure rate, deployment recovery time, pipeline reliability, automated-test effectiveness, platform adoption, and developer experience
- Uses performance data, incident trends, and developer feedback to reduce build times, unreliable tests, deployment friction, and recurring manual work. Partners with engineering leaders to improve maintainability, address technical debt, and strengthen application reliability
- Evaluates and pilots AI-assisted engineering and operations tools that may improve productivity, quality, or reliability. Validates their value and implements appropriate governance and controls before broader adoption
- Reduces vendor and key-person dependencies through automation, documentation, cross-training, and knowledge transfer
- Leads through influence in an established, regulated organization, balancing improvement with continuity of service and building support for sustainable change
- Supports and ensures strictest adherence to best practices, FDA Code of Federal Regulations, ICH (International Conference on Harmonization), GCP (Good Clinical Practices), CenExel standard operating procedures, site working Practices, protocol, and company guidelines and policies
- Assumes other duties and responsibilities as assigned. The above responsibilities are a general description of the level and nature of the work assigned to this classification and are not to be considered as all inclusive
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related technical field—or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience
- Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability engineering (SRE), including relevant leadership experience
- Demonstrated success building shared capabilities that achieved strong adoption across engineering teams and measurably improved delivery performance and system reliability
- Experience working in established or regulated organizations, combined with a practical, adaptable approach suited to a small team environment
- Experience with Microsoft products including Azure, Azure DevOps, Dynamics, etc
- Relevant cloud, DevOps, or SRE certifications are valued but not required
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive a benefits package after 30 days of employment, including Health Insurance, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD, Life Ins, and 401k.
- Remote or Hybrid work arrangement.
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