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 Manager – DevOps Platform & Forward Engineering
GCL: E
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn world-class DevOps platforms into a force multiplier for speed, quality, and reliability across a global enterprise? In this role, you will lead the engineering foundations that power how teams build, test, secure, and ship software that enables our mission to transform patient outcomes. Your work will ensure our core platforms are resilient, scalable, and simple to use—so product and engineering teams can move with confidence.
You will guide a high-performing team to elevate our use of GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Artifactory, and related ecosystems, balancing operational excellence with bold engineering improvements. As we accelerate our shift to a more digital and data-led business, you will shape the capabilities, standards, and automations that unlock impact at scale. Could you see yourself leading the service strategy while also rolling up your sleeves to solve complex CI/CD challenges and lead change?
Accountabilities:
- Team Leadership and Development: Lead, manage, and develop a team of DevOps/Platform Engineers, driving capability, engagement, performance, and delivery.
- Enterprise Platform Technical Leadership: Provide advanced technical leadership across enterprise engineering and DevOps platforms including GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Co-Pilot, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, and Jfrog Artifactory & Eco Systems.
- Operational Service Ownership: Own operational service delivery for supported platforms, ensuring reliability, supportability, and performance against agreed expectations and standards.
- Strategic Initiatives and Change Delivery: Lead upgrades, migrations, integrations, platform enhancements, and service improvements that reduce toil and increase developer productivity.
- Demand Management and Prioritization: Assess and balance business need, technical complexity, urgency, and capacity to sequence high-value work.
- Work Differentiation and Assignment: Apply expert judgment to distinguish routine support from complex engineering, matching problems to the right skills and delivery approach.
- Sophisticated Problem Resolution and Risk Management: Oversee the resolution of difficult technical issues, escalations, recurring incidents, CI/CD challenges, and platform risks spanning multiple services.
- Guide Guidance and Collaborator Engagement: Advise engineers and project teams on technical options, operational implications, risk trade-offs, and delivery decisions to drive the best outcomes.
- Service Model and Process Improvement: Define, implement, and improve support models, workflows, and service processes for efficiency, quality, and consistency.
- Metrics, Reporting, and Insights: Establish and review service metrics and reporting to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
- Influence and Innovation: Align internal and external stakeholders to a clear service direction and champion innovation through automation, AI adoption, and better ways of working.
- Governance and Compliance Alignment: Ensure platform services and engineering align with enterprise standards, security requirements, architectural principles, and operational controls.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Significant experience in DevOps engineering, enterprise platforms, or technical service delivery in a complex interpersonal environment.
- Proven people management experience, including leadership of technical teams, performance management, coaching, and capability development.
- Sophisticated technical expertise in enterprise engineering platforms and tooling, particularly Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, and Artifactory, Microfocus ALM and Load Runner.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, tools, and fixing, including GitHub Actions and Self-Hosted Runners in the EKS Clusters.
- Demonstrated experience in leading or coordinating the solving of complex technical and operational issues across platforms, services, and integrations.
- Strong experience in operational service leadership, including support models, prioritization, SLA delivery, incident management, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to solve difficult but defined problems that may span multiple areas, applying expert judgment to develop practical solutions.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience in an international corporate setting with geographically dispersed collaborators and teams .
- Experience within DevOps or platform engineering functions.
- Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments.
- Experience with automation and scripting, including Python, Shell, or PowerShell.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or related modern engineering platforms.
- Experience with REST APIs, platform integrations, and interoperability.
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and service reporting tools.
- Experience in applying AI to improve engineering workflows, support services, or productivity.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash ambitious 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 engineering leadership connects directly to real-world outcomes: faster research cycles, safer operations, and smarter decisions that help patients worldwide. You will collaborate with deep specialists and inventive colleagues, working across fields to turn modern tooling, automation, and AI into practical capabilities at scale. We pair high ambition with courtesy and trust, giving you the freedom to experiment, the support to learn quickly, and the opportunity to raise your profile by sharing your work and supplying to vibrant communities of practice. This is a place where hands-on platform excellence and thoughtful service leadership come together to shape a digital, data-led future.
If you are ready to lead a high-impact platform function and turn enterprise DevOps into a motivation for speed, quality, and innovation, take the next step and help us build what’s next.
Date Posted
17-Jul-2026Closing Date
13-Aug-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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