Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer – Pharma / Life Sciences UK (Hybrid) | Contract | Inside IR35 | Day Rate: DOE Essential: Prior experience within pharma, biotech, or life sciences - Candidates without this experience will not be considered We’re partnering with a highly successful pharmaceutical organisation investing heavily in its cloud and data platforms to support critical scientific and R&D initiatives. They’re looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to help build and scale secure, reliable cloud infrastructure and data services used by scientists, engineers, and data teams across the business. This is a hands-on role in a fast-moving, agile environment, focused on building meaningful platforms rather than generic cloud migration work. What you’ll be doing • Designing and building scalable cloud infrastructure to support large, complex datasets • Driving best practice across CI/CD, automation, testing, and tooling • Developing and supporting batch and streaming data processing solutions • Working closely with scientists, data engineers, and software engineers to enable data-driven products • Deploying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code across cloud platforms (Azure / AWS) What we’re looking for • Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure • Solid Python development skills • Good working knowledge of SQL and data platforms • Experience with containerisation (Docker or similar) • Exposure to DevOps, DataOps, and Agile ways of working • Essential: Prior experience within pharma, biotech, or life sciences Why this role • High-impact work supporting real scientific and research outcomes • Mature engineering culture with strong collaboration across tech and science • Long-term programme with meaningful delivery If you’re a senior cloud engineer with life sciences experience and looking for your next contract, feel free to get in touch or apply directly.