Cloud Engineer II

Cloud Engineer II (US-based, ET/CT time zones only), Full time, Remote ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers. The Role: We’re excited to be seeking a US-based Cloud Engineer II located in the ET or CT time zones for a full-time , remote position. As a Cloud Engineer II you will provide hands-on engineering expertise for the deployment of cloud infrastructure, services and application hosting patterns, with a strong focus on automation, repeatability and operational reliability. Responsibilities: - Design, build, deploy and support secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions across one or more major public cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). - Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, CloudFormation or equivalent technologies to ensure cloud environments are version-controlled, auditable and consistently deployed. - Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, security validation and deployment processes for infrastructure and cloud-hosted applications, using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent platforms. - Deploy and operate containerized workloads and cloud-native services using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS or GKE , where appropriate to the solution architecture. - Implement cloud networking, identity, access management, secrets management, logging, monitoring and alerting in line with security, compliance and operational standards. - Work closely with application, infrastructure, security and operations teams to translate business and technical requirements into well-architected cloud solutions. - Advise product and application teams on appropriate cloud patterns, deployment approaches and platform services, supporting them to adopt scalable, secure and supportable solutions rather than simply executing infrastructure tasks. - Contribute to a platform engineering approach by developing reusable templates, golden paths, self-service deployment patterns and standardized cloud services that enable application teams to deploy solutions consistently and efficiently. - Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across cloud platforms, deployment pipelines and production environments, ensuring timely restoration of service and continuous improvement of solution reliability. - Support cloud migration, modernization and platform engineering initiatives, including assessment of existing workloads, design of target-state architectures and execution of deployment plans. - Continuously optimize cloud environments for performance, availability, security and cost, making practical recommendations based on usage patterns, monitoring data and platform best practice. - Support FinOps and cost accountability practices, including effective tagging standards, budget visibility, cost governance, chargeback or showback models, and use of reserved capacity or savings plans where appropriate. Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent relevant work experience - 3 - 6+ years of strong hands-on expertise in at least one of Azure, AWS or GCP, with practical experience deploying production cloud solutions, including items such as: SCPs, landing zones, Control tower, AWS config, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail AWS cost explorer, Azure Policy, Azure Security Centre, Azure monitor, Azure Advisor. GCP logging, GCP monitoring. - Practical experience with modern CI/CD deployment practices working with source control, automated deployment pipelines and release processes. - Strong scripting or automatio