Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.
Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI, resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.
Certara is seeking an experienced Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer – Linux SME to design, deploy, administer, and optimize our enterprise Linux infrastructure across on-premises data centers, virtualized environments, and Microsoft Azure.
This is a hands-on engineering position responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of Linux-based infrastructure, including operating systems, physical and virtual servers, enterprise storage, networking, automation, performance optimization, and disaster recovery.
The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for Linux infrastructure, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and Level 3 escalation support while ensuring our systems remain secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally efficient.
The ideal candidate combines deep Linux engineering expertise with practical experience managing enterprise server hardware, storage technologies, virtualization platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Infrastructure Operations Management
- Administer and optimize:
- Citrix Cloud environments
- Cisco Meraki networking infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure cloud Infrastructure
- Active Directory (on-prem & hybrid)
- Utilize monitoring, management, and capacity planning to ensure performance, availability, and reliability.
- Identify and remediate recurring systemic issues to reduce repeat service desk incidents.
- Provide level 3 escalation support to Service Desk and Operations Engineers within defined SLAs.
- Maintain and update detailed infrastructure design and operational documentation to support a distributed global team.
- Ensure infrastructure adheres to security, compliance, and governance standards.
Research & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through technology.
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure enhancements, service improvements, or re-architecture initiatives.
- Contribute to infrastructure standardization, automation, and modernization strategies.
- Proactively assess capacity, scalability, performance, and resiliency improvements.
Project Execution
- Execute infrastructure initiatives and modernization projects using Agile methodologies.
- Lead or participate in implementations across cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, and endpoint delivery platforms.
- Support cloud migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and platform consolidations.
- Integrate DevOps and automation practices into infrastructure deployment and management workflows.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure engineering within medium-to-large enterprises.
- 10+ years of experience supporting life sciences, professional services, and/or software development organizations.
- Advanced experience with:
- Citrix Cloud
- Cisco Meraki Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (IaaS, networking, identity, storage)
- Active Directory (Hybrid AD, Group Policy, Azure AD / Entra ID)
- Experience managing Windows and Linux Server OS in hybrid data center environments.
- Strong experience with backup and disaster recovery solutions (on-prem and cloud).
- SME-level experience with monitoring and incident management systems.
- Experience across multiple vendor stacks including:
- Microsoft Azure
- Networking and telecommunications management experience required.
- Exposure to DevOps tooling supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Scripting and automation experience in one or more languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.). Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with demonstrated experience documenting complex technical systems.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex technical problems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional global teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Infrastructure architecture & design
- Incident & problem management
- Capacity planning
- Systems integration
- Automation mindset
- Continuous improvement orientation
- Global collaboration
Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.
Infrastructure Operations Management
- Administer and optimize:
- Citrix Cloud environments
- Cisco Meraki networking infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure cloud Infrastructure
- Active Directory (on-prem & hybrid)
- Utilize monitoring, management, and capacity planning to ensure performance, availability, and reliability.
- Identify and remediate recurring systemic issues to reduce repeat service desk incidents.
- Provide level 3 escalation support to Service Desk and Operations Engineers within defined SLAs.
- Maintain and update detailed infrastructure design and operational documentation to support a distributed global team.
- Ensure infrastructure adheres to security, compliance, and governance standards.
Research & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through technology.
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure enhancements, service improvements, or re-architecture initiatives.
- Contribute to infrastructure standardization, automation, and modernization strategies.
- Proactively assess capacity, scalability, performance, and resiliency improvements.
Project Execution
- Execute infrastructure initiatives and modernization projects using Agile methodologies.
- Lead or participate in implementations across cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, and endpoint delivery platforms.
- Support cloud migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and platform consolidations.
- Integrate DevOps and automation practices into infrastructure deployment and management workflows.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure engineering within medium-to-large enterprises.
- 10+ years of experience supporting life sciences, professional services, and/or software development organizations.
- Advanced experience with:
- Citrix Cloud
- Cisco Meraki Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (IaaS, networking, identity, storage)
- Active Directory (Hybrid AD, Group Policy, Azure AD / Entra ID)
- Experience managing Windows and Linux Server OS in hybrid data center environments.
- Strong experience with backup and disaster recovery solutions (on-prem and cloud).
- SME-level experience with monitoring and incident management systems.
- Experience across multiple vendor stacks including:
- Microsoft Azure
- Networking and telecommunications management experience required.
- Exposure to DevOps tooling supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Scripting and automation experience in one or more languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.). Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with demonstrated experience documenting complex technical systems.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex technical problems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional global teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Infrastructure architecture & design
- Incident & problem management
- Capacity planning
- Systems integration
- Automation mindset
- Continuous improvement orientation
- Global collaboration
Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.
Sr. IT Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield employer: Certara
At Certara, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration among our multidisciplinary research teams. Located in a vibrant area with access to cutting-edge resources, we provide our employees with ample opportunities for professional growth, including participation in educational workshops and engagement with industry leaders. Our commitment to diversity and merit-based advancement ensures that every team member can thrive while contributing to the transformative work of bringing life-saving medicines to market.
