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
Job Title: Senior Consultant - DevOps
GCL: D3
Introduction to role
At AstraZeneca, we treat Scientific Computing as a strategic asset that underpins our advances in science. Leading-edge research strategies critically depend on elite computing capabilities and high-energy engineering teams supporting them. The Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) is AstraZeneca's innovative computing environment designed to tackle today's and tomorrow's in-silico challenges. It focuses on a platform concept, building capabilities and services around central building blocks. At its heart, it uses compute environments, a classical InfiniBand/Slurm HPC cluster, an Openstack private cloud, and various public clouds for elasticity and scale. To exploit these resource pools most efficiently, the SCP deploys strong DevOps tooling and cloud-native technologies, aiming to adjust and adapt according to changing requirements and follow the science. The engineers and architects in the SCP team are key to continuously delivering and supporting this critical capability.
Accountabilities
We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious, and independently working Scientific Computing engineer to join our global team. If you combine a DevOps way of working with a strong enterprise-ready service attitude, problem-solving skills, excitement for technology, and interest in accelerating science, then you are in good company.
You will be engaged in a variety of activities stretching from daily operations and development, exciting technology exploration, and strategic project delivery. You will own parts of the platform, drive its operational excellence, prioritize the development backlog, and craft the roadmap. Whether your interest is more operations or development-focused, classical HPC or cloud computing, in hardware or applications, our team operates the whole stack. Everyone on the team takes responsibility for our success.
Based in one of the science hub sites, you will become a trusted partner to our Science community, ensuring that we deliver technology at the highest standards to enable and push their work to the next level. Translating their needs into efficient solutions and applying engineering excellence to make science successful will be your daily reward.
We operate the SCP as a single global team with shared responsibilities. You will join an agile and hardworking team of technologists who share excitement for High-Performance & Big Compute, modern technology stacks, and their application in science to change the lives of patients. To us, teammates are people who have humility, feel accountable for their work (and their teams), as well as the ability and willingness to be a leader of something.
Living and breathing technology is a key factor enabling us to keep pace with the life-changing ideas of AstraZeneca's scientists.
Essential Skills/Experience
Demonstrated expertise and 10+ years of hands-on experience operating, crafting, or engineering large-scale computing environments, with a main focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) while having experience in DevOps practices.
Demonstrable ability to drive innovative computational solutions and leverage emerging technologies within the Life Sciences domain, particularly in the Pharmaceutical Industry or Biotech sectors.
Nice to have experience in administering large-scale cluster and server computing environments, utilizing related software such as Slurm, LSF, and Grid Engine.
Hands-on experience collaborating within DevOps teams and applying agile methodologies to streamline operations and development processes.
Providing comprehensive scientific software support for end-users, including configuration, installation, tuning, and maintenance.
Proficiency in operating and managing virtualized private cloud resources, specifically with OpenStack.
Solid understanding of Linux system administration, the TCP/IP stack, and storage subsystems.
Knowledge in administering large-scale parallel filesystems, including GPFS and Lustre.
Proven track record of using configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet) and technology frameworks within IT operations.
Experience in developing and managing relationships with third-party suppliers.
Proficient in scripting and tool development for HPC and DevOps platforms using Bash and Python.
Desirable Skills/Experience
Familiarity with operating and configuring public cloud computing infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience in managing virtualized private cloud environments, particularly with OpenStack.
Knowledge of container technologies (e.g., LXD, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes).
Demonstrated development experience across multiple programming languages, tools, and technologies (e.g., Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, SQL, AWS).
Familiarity with HashiCorp tools like Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad.
Experience in platform engineering, software engineering, and machine learning best practices, including version control, continuous integration (CI), continuous development (CD), containerization, and shell scripting.
Bachelor's degree required; emphasis on Computational, Physical, or Biological Science, Engineering, or related fields preferred. A Master's or Ph.D. is a plus.
Solid understanding of analytic products and scientific computing software relevant to pharmaceutical R&D.
Excellent written and verbal communication, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
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.
At AstraZeneca, our work has a direct impact on patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems while driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Here you'll find countless opportunities to learn and grow while working on innovative technologies.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now!
AstraZeneca 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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