Lead Consultant – AWS Cloud/DevOps

Job Title - Lead Consultant – AWS Cloud/DevOps

Career Level - E

AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a workplace culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Here, you would express diverse perspectives, contribute to an energised environment, and provide creative ideas - and be rewarded for this!

We are recruiting for Software Engineer for our Data Enablement team. It is a full-time Grade D role to be based in our GITC site at Chennai.

As part of AstraZeneca’s Data Protection capability, we are seeking a cloud engineer to own the Infrastructure, Code repositories, Deployment pipeline efforts for Enterprise IT. This means Accountability for setup and maintenance of our AWS environment servers, data bases, secrets etc. Own IAM and Access Policies for various applications, Own the Active Directory services for Enterprise Data Enablement Division.

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent knowledge in Cloud Engineering platforms (Especially AWS)
• Excellent Linux Skills
• Expertise in managing Cloud Servers, Data bases, Secrets, RSA certificates etc
• Expertise in  management of IAM roles , Users and AD groups .
• Strong Background in networking and routing concepts
• Expertise in Infrastructure as a Code – Ansible and cloud formation stacks (such as Teraform)
• Prior exposure in setting up CICD pipelines for code deployment – Such as Jenkins , Git Deploy
• Prior exposure to setting up docker containers and using Kubernetes for deployment is mandatory
• Background in Cloud security tools such as sonarqube is a great plus
• Strong knowledge of SAAS and PAAS is a plus.
• An enthusiasm for great documentation

Desirable skills and experience

• Excellent Jira acumen including a proactive approach to status updates.
• Experience of Agile practices, preferably having been part of an Agile team for several years.

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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.