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Join FLBG’s Global Infrastructure & Operations team as a Principle Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and help design, build, and scale mission-critical cloud platforms that power a global enterprise. You’ll be the technical lead driving our cloud strategy and delivery, enabling secure, resilient, and compliant services across both IT and OT environments. If you thrive in complex, high-impact environments and love turning architectures into operational reality at scale, we’d love to meet you.

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives.
Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive - what we call Genki. 
 
Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

• Lead the design, build, and operation of secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-native platforms, including AWS Landing Zones.
• Serve as the Cloud technical lead for complex, global projects—translating architectural designs into delivered services and operational capabilities.
• Own automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform or CloudFormation to streamline provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Implement security-by-design across cloud platforms, including identity management, encryption, zero-trust principles, and adherence to frameworks such as ISO 27000.
• Build and evolve monitoring and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to ensure reliability, performance, and QoS across services.
• Lead deployments of new cloud technologies and services, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and full compliance with FLBG policies and procedures, including AIS metrics prior to go-live.
• Guide cloud migration strategies (on-prem → cloud or hybrid), optimize usage for cost, scalability, and efficiency, and define best practices for governance and compliance.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders globally, partnering across IT and OT, influencing roadmaps, and engaging with vendors to ensure solutions meet technical and security requirements.
• Provide 4th-line expertise and BAU technical governance, including transition-to-operations, documentation, and audit input.

• 10+ years in a 3rd/4th Line Cloud engineer role in a global enterprise business, or 6+ Years in a biomedical sciences 3rd/4th line IT support role. Or a mixture of both

• Proven experience managing production cloud environments

• Experience with DevOps practices and agile methodologies

• In depth design and support knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure technologies such as, but not limited to AWS / Azure

• Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Bash) and containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Strong understanding of networking (VPCs, load balancing, DNS)

• Understanding of security best practices (IAM, encryption, secrets management)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• In depth knowledge of Infrastructure security and associated frameworks such as ISO27000

• Experience designing distributed systems and microservices architecture

• Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

• Adept at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organizations, using architecture communication techniques.

• Adept at gaining support from business and technical stakeholders for IT initiatives with low/medium levels of risk, impact, and complexity.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect advantageous

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator or DevOps Engineer advantageous

• Degree or higher in Computer Science or Information Technology or relevant technical certifications

• 10 yrs+ experience in an IT 3rd/ 4th line position with proven track record in an enterprise Cloud environment, or 5+ years’ experience of working in a biomedical IT service environment. Any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background to deliver against role expectations.

This is a global position that will support all our FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites. This position can be based at any of our locations around the globe, though this application is meant for US-based candidates only. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site. 

As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. Theorganizationis committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses thatdataand to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiringmanagers in Europe and the United States. 

Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee atFUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for thisrequisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of anykind will be paid. 

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department (fdbglobaltalent@fujifilm.com).