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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Genedata, 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.
The biopharmaceutical industry is undergoing a transformation, requiring advanced digitalization to adopt data- and AI-driven approaches and develop innovative therapies quicker. Genedata’s market-leading enterprise software fuels this transformation by enabling leading biopharma, biotech, and contract research as well as contract development and manufacturing organizations worldwide to automate processes and leverage data analytics and AI, so they can deliver breakthrough therapies to patients faster. Join us and help scientists around the world accelerate the pace of biopharma R&D
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The Cloud Solutions Architect will work closely with our pre-sales and delivery teams to present the optimal IT infrastructure design, implementation, and management of Genedata’s cloud-based applications and how they interface to complex customer IT environments. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role focused on AWS infrastructure architecture, deployment process design, systems integration, configuration automation, security, and operational readiness for enterprise customers in both research- and regulated environments.
You will combine deep technical expertise with strong customer engagement skills, helping clients configure and deploy the Genedata Biopharma Platform successfully while influencing technical standards, and best practices across cloud delivery.
This is an opportunity to join a growing international team in a high-impact technical role with strong visibility across customers and internal stakeholders. The position will be fully remote, located in the United Kingdom.
In this role, you will:
Support customer-facing discussions from a technical perspective and explain complex architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Partner with business, pre-sales, and delivery teams to understand customer technical requirements and translate these into practical, well-architected technical solutions that balance security, compliance, performance, scalability, and supportability
Plan, configure, and support cloud-based deployments of Genedata products in customer environments, ensuring strong alignment with infrastructure, security, and operational requirements
Contribute to IT infrastructure validation activities at customer sites and ensure solution designs meet regulatory, internal, and client compliance requirements
Support the Operational IT and Product teams to design, develop, and evolve secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures for operating Genedata applications, with a strong focus on AWS infrastructure, resilience, and operational excellence
The essential requirements of the job include:
3+ years’ experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering or similar roles
Strong hands-on expertise across Linux/Unix and Windows environments
Proven experience in a service or technical communications role including the ability to assess complex enterprise IT environments and produce clear architecture, network, and deployment diagrams that communicate technical solutions effectively
Practical experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation in distributed production environments e.g. scripting, configuration management, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting experience
Deep hands-on experience designing and deploying applications on AWS, including core infrastructure services such as networking, compute, storage, identity and access management, and security; AWS certification is strongly preferred
Nice to have: Experience with service operations, ITSM/helpdesk tooling, and customer-facing technical delivery in regulated or enterprise environments
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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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering
- Hands-on expertise across Linux/Unix and Windows environments
- Proven experience assessing complex enterprise IT environments and producing architecture, network, and deployment diagrams
- Practical experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation in distributed production environments (scripting, configuration management, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting)
- Deep hands-on experience designing and deploying applications on AWS, including networking, compute, storage, IAM, and security
- Experience contributing to IT infrastructure validation and ensuring regulatory, internal, and client compliance in regulated environments
- AWS certification
- Experience with service operations and ITSM/helpdesk tooling, and customer-facing technical delivery in regulated or enterprise environments
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is highlighted repeatedly and is viewed as comprehensive for regular full‑time employees. Descriptions such as “good” or “great” benefits reinforce the strength of the health coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company matching is consistently included as part of the package. The presence of matching contributions strengthens perceived retirement readiness.
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