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 Engineer - DevOps (AWS Cloud Architecture)
Career Level: D / E
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to architect secure, scalable AWS platforms that accelerate how life-changing medicines reach patients? This role sits at the heart of our digital and data transformation, building cloud foundations that power discovery, development, and delivery across the enterprise.
You will join a team of entrepreneurial engineers who take ownership, experiment boldly, and turn ideas into operational reality. Here, you’ll shape the AWS ecosystem that enables rapid product delivery, modern application patterns, and trusted data at scale. How will you lead the next step in our journey to a truly data-led enterprise?
Accountabilities:
Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure: Architect and operate foundational AWS infrastructure, including multi-account landing zones, VPC networking, identity, and security guardrails, to enable secure, scalable platforms and rapid product delivery.
Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain reproducible environments using Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK; create reusable modules, pipelines, and policy guardrails to increase consistency and speed.
CI/CD and Automation: Design and operate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) with automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment for microservices and data workloads to improve quality and throughput.
Container Platforms: Operate and optimize EKS and/or ECS/Fargate, covering cluster provisioning, autoscaling, ingress/service mesh, and cost/performance tuning to deliver resilient services at scale.
Observability and SRE: Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Open Telemetry); define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and strengthen reliability to meet service commitments.
Security and Compliance: Embed security-by-design with IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, network segmentation strategies, dedicated private endpoints, vulnerability monitoring, and policy-as-code (OPA); support audits and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GxP as applicable).
Networking: Design and manage VPC architectures (subnets, NAT, Transit Gateway, routing, NACLs, security groups), hybrid connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect), and private service access to ensure secure, performant connectivity.
Migration and Modernization: Lead on-prem to AWS migration projects end-to-end, from discovery and assessment through landing zone setup, integration, wave planning, data migration, cutover, stabilization, and modernization to cloud-native patterns.
Data and Application Platforms: Provide teams with architectural approaches for APIs, event streams, serverless, and managed data services. These include SNS/SQS/Kinesis, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, MSK, or equivalent experience. This support helps accelerate product delivery.
Cost Management: Implement tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and reserved/savings plans; provide cost visibility and optimization recommendations aimed at improving value.
Governance and Multi-Account Strategy: Manage AWS Organizations/Control Tower, SCPs, environment isolation (dev/test/prod), and compliance baselines to maintain a secure and orderly cloud estate.
Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, define standards, author RFCs/design docs, and drive adoption of platform capabilities and standard methodologies to uplift engineering effectiveness.
Run and Operate: Own production readiness, lead all aspects of updates and modifications, manage on-call rotations, and drive continuous improvement to increase platform reliability and delivery efficiency.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Architecting and operating foundational AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-account landing zones, VPC networking, identity, and security guardrails
Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK, including reusable modules, pipelines, and policy guardrails
CI/CD pipeline design and operation using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins, with automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment
Operating and optimizing EKS and/or ECS/Fargate, including cluster provisioning, autoscaling, ingress/service mesh, and cost/performance tuning
Observability and SRE practices with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; defining SLOs/SLIs and leading incident response
Security-by-design across AWS: IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, network segmentation, private endpoints, vulnerability management, and policy-as-code (OPA); audit and compliance support (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GxP)
VPC architecture design and management: subnets, NAT, Transit Gateway, routing, NACLs, security groups; hybrid connectivity via VPN or Direct Connect; private service access
Leading on-prem to AWS migrations end-to-end and modernizing workloads to cloud-native patterns
Designing patterns for APIs, event streams (SNS, SQS, Kinesis), serverless (Lambda), and managed data services (RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, MSK)
Cost management: tagging, budgets, rightsizing, reserved/savings plans; cost visibility and optimization recommendations
Governance across multi-account environments: AWS Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, environment isolation, and compliance baselines
Technical leadership: mentoring, standards definition, RFCs/design documentation, and platform capability adoption
Operations excellence: production readiness, change management, on-call rotations, and continuous improvement
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Depth across both EKS and ECS/Fargate, including service mesh integration (e.g., App Mesh or Istio) and advanced ingress strategies
Hands-on experience implementing OpenTelemetry end-to-end and tuning Prometheus/Grafana at scale
Proven delivery of GxP or similar regulated cloud environments and audit readiness
Advanced governance experience with AWS Control Tower customization, SCP strategy, and multi-account blueprints
Building shared Terraform or CDK modules and reference architectures consumed by multiple teams
Leading complex migration wave planning, cutovers, and stabilization with minimal disruption
Cost optimization at scale, including workload rightsizing, reserved/savings plan strategies, and chargeback/showback models
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite 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:
Join a technology organization that pairs brand new engineering with a clear mission: enabling science to move faster and reach patients sooner. You will collaborate with diverse experts, experiment in hackathons, and harness modern cloud and data platforms to drive enterprise-scale impact. We back bold ideas with real investment, value kindness alongside ambition, and bring different perspectives together to spark new solutions—so your work not only advances our digital strategy, it directly supports the discovery and delivery of medicines.
If you’re ready to take ownership of a modern AWS platform and turn ambitious ideas into tangible outcomes for patients, step forward and shape what’s next!
Date Posted
23-Jan-2026Closing Date
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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