Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Consultant - DevOps & CI/CD Lead
Career Level: C3
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to architect secure, automated delivery on AWS that accelerates how therapies reach patients? As the DevOps and CI/CD Lead, you will set the direction for cloud-native delivery pipelines, tooling, and governance that power our platforms and products at scale. Your work will turn complex, regulated delivery challenges into streamlined, auditable flows that increase speed to value without compromising security or quality.
This role sits at the heart of our digital transformation, bringing engineering rigor and automation to how software is built, tested, released, and operated. You will shape the patterns, frameworks, and metrics that help teams ship with confidence and learn faster. How would you reduce deployment lead time from hours to minutes while improving compliance and cost transparency?
Accountabilities:
DevOps Leadership: Serve as a hands-on expert across automation, infrastructure definition, provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and observability—raising engineering standards and outcomes.
CICD Pipeline Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end pipelines using AWS-native tools and/or Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, S3, Lambda, Linux scripting, and Python—enabling secure, repeatable releases at scale.
AWS Cloud Engineering: Architect, build, and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency, aligned to AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
Python Automation: Develop and maintain Python-based automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment orchestration, operational tasks, testing suites, and data pipelines using Boto3 and REST APIs.
Security and Compliance by Design: Continuously assess vulnerabilities and risks, implement IAM guidelines, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance controls to ensure systems are safe, secure, and auditable.
Release and Dependency Strategy: Partner with scrum managers, development managers, and application owners to refine component release strategies, reduce dependencies, and improve flow through agile delivery.
Jira and Bitbucket Administration: Create and optimize Jira projects, complex workflows, permission and security schemes; manage access; configure boards; and administer Bitbucket projects and repositories to meet compliance standards.
Insights and Analytics: Build dashboards, visualizations, and analytical models using Python and associated libraries to provide decision support, forecast impact, and inform investment and prioritization.
Vendor and Customer Management: Manage relationships with external suppliers and internal partners, aligning roadmaps and performance to business needs and driving improved delivery outcomes.
Operating Model Enablement: Partner with platform and product teams to roll out agile and lean practices, champion better ways of working, and integrate tooling that connects collaborators and accelerates delivery.
Cost and Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize AWS resource utilization, performance, and spend, ensuring clear visibility and actionable insights across environments.
Continuous Improvement: Challenge the status quo and introduce innovative ideas that enhance frameworks, guardrails, and developer experience—scaling what works across teams.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Degree level education or equivalent experience in computer science or similar
Prior experience in an Information Services/Information Technology environ
ment with good business acumen
Proven experience of managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers
Experience with multiple different types of software risks
Technology Function Management
Experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures, and guidelines
Evidence of designing, shaping, and implementing innovative solutions and driving prioritised changes
Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language
Working knowledge of Agile Software Development techniques and methodologies
Expertise in AWS Cloud Services (EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, CDK, VPC, CloudWatch)
Strong proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and API development (including Boto3)
Expertise in Web and Mobile Application Engineering
Expertise in application design patterns and processes
Expertise in Continuous Integration and Deployment methods delivered as part of an agile team
Linux scripting and system administration
Understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, encryption, and compliance frameworks
Integration and reporting technical capabilities and tools
Good commercial awareness and understanding of the external market
Demonstrate initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven design patterns
Knowledge of machine learning, natural language processing, and statistical analysis methods
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here your craft directly shapes how our company runs, from freeing scientists to focus on discovery to equipping leaders with predictive, automated insight. We are investing in modern data platforms and smart automation to scale impact, and we put curious, kind, and ambitious people together to spark bold ideas that become real products. You will collaborate across teams, learn from a global network of high performers, and see your work accelerate decisions that matter to patients. We value kindness alongside ambition, pairing high standards with genuine support so you can experiment, move quickly, and grow your career while making a meaningful difference.
Own this opportunity to design the insight products that power faster, smarter decisions—step in and help shape the next chapter of our data-driven impact.
Date Posted
10-Jun-2026Closing Date
14-Jun-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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