ICON plc

Cloud Engineer II

ICON plc$95K — $115K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 3-6+ years of hands-on experience in Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Experience in CI/CD practices with source control and automated pipelines
  • Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
  • Knowledge in cloud cost optimization and reserved instance utilization
  • Familiarity with cloud security and governance principles

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy secure cloud solutions on major platforms
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code for consistent deployment
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automation
  • Deploy and manage containerized workloads in the cloud
  • Implement networking, identity, and logging best practices
  • Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into cloud solutions
  • Advise on cloud deployment methodologies and optimize existing setups

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programs and wellbeing resources
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training
Full Job Description
Cloud Engineer II (US-based, ET/CT time zones only), Full time, Remote

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 automation skills, for example PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar, are required to support repeatable deployment and operational automation.

  • Experience in cloud cost optimization including, rightsizing, Optimizing, and use of reserved instance\Saving

  • Experience across multiple cloud platforms is highly desirable and will be considered a strong advantage.

  • Familiarity with cloud security principles, infrastructure governance, tagging, policy enforcement, monitoring and cost management is expected.

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Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.


Rewards & Benefits

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.


Benefits may include:

  • Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
  • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
  • Retirement and pension plans
  • Life assurance and disability coverage
  • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
  • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

Benefits may vary depending on role and location.


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About ICON plc

ICON plc is a global provider of drug development and commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development. ICON has approximately 15700 employees in 40 countries. The company was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990 and is headquartered in Leopardstown, Dublin. ICON has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1998.
Learn more about ICON plc
Size
39,300 employees
Market Cap
$16.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$332.3 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+26.9%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
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