Cloud Engineer II

Cloud Engineer II

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. ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation.

From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

The Role

As a Cloud Governance Engineer you will be designing and implementing policies and working practices to ensure common standards across a multi-cloud environment.

You will also be driving cost optimization initiatives and review architecture and deployment topologies to ensure optimal cost management, Setup appropriate tools to monitor and enforce compliance to the agreed standards Responsibilities:

Continuously drive cloud cost optimization by rightsizing, Optimizing, and use of reserved instance\Saving Plans.

Continuously review and monitor cloud costs. Setup alerting when costs are exceeding expected thresholds. Analyze and make recommendations around costs saving measures. Develop metrics to report on costs and work with stakeholders on budgeting

Assist with the development and creation of policies and architectural standards to set minimum and repeatable standards in the following areas across a given cloud platform: Account Creation, Identity and access management, Cost management, Security, Tagging, Backups, S3 /Storage account policies and Logging policies

Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) and working procedures (WPs). Training materials, and documentation adhering to industry best practices for AWS, Azure and GCP

Roll out and development of tools across the cloud platforms (AWS, Azure & GCP) to apply policies and monitor compliance across a wide range of accounts and tenants. These tools must be centralized with a view to giving a single pane of glass for ease of use. Setup enforcement mechanisms for policies where necessary

Develop reporting mechanisms to easily demonstrate adherence to cloud policies

Work with the ServiceNow team to implement workflows as appropriate to facilitate automation wherever applicable

Continuously review and update standards according to latest best practice across our multi cloud environment.

On-board and continuously improve upon existing cost and control dashboards and alerting (performance, usage, compliance, etc.)

Collaborate closely with Cloud Delivery Team and other stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of cloud projects while maintaining compliance with standards.

To succeed you will need

Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent relevant work experience; Industry standard certifications preferred.

6+ years of related experience in a technical position supporting cloud based infrastructure in Cloud providers AWS, GCP, or Azure required.

Strong working knowledge of various cloud technologies in at least one of the three major cloud platforms AWS\Azure\GCP.

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. Any third party cost monitoring tool.

Strong experience in cloud cost optimization including, rightsizing, Optimizing, and use of reserved instance\Saving

General knowledge of cloud technologies, cloud architecture and cloud deployment

Due to the nature of this position it may be required for the employee to travel.

Benefits of Working in ICON

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development. At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs.

In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - bo