Engineer - Digital Lab Applications

Job Title - Engineer - Digital Lab Applications

Career Level - C

About the role

We have exciting opportunity for AWS Engineer working as part of Digital Lab Platform within the R&D IT department. The AWS Engineer will work closely with the DevOps Lead, Platform Lead, Technical Lead, Scrum Master and DevOps team to ensure sophisticated and on-time delivery of demands and long-termservicing of different AWS applications within the platform.

As anAWS Engineer you will contribute to the effort to bring about a step-change in our inhouse solutions & capabilities migration to cloud and will be responsible fordelivery of backlog items and assigned service requests for digital lab AWS Services. You will be responsible for planning and executing within the committed timeline. The AWS Engineer is a highly motivated self-starter that is an independent thinker who thrives on finding creative and innovative solutions.

Experience and Key Desired skills

  4+ years of hands-on experience in AWS services: EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC.

• Experience developing and debugging Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, TerraForm, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

  
  

• Hands-On experience with scripting language: Python/Java/Bash/Perl

  
  

• Hands-on experience with major DevOps tools including Git, Docker containerization, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Ansible Tower and strong DevOps experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

  
  

• Extensive knowledge in designing and implementing DevOps practices for version control, compliance, configuration management, build, release, and testing using AWS cloud infrastructure.

  
  

• Experience with FinOps tools and implementing cost management practices to tract, analyse and optimise cloud spending.

  
  

• Experience in setting up monitoring and alerting systems to track usage, performance and cost trends in real time.

  
  

• Takes ownership of the DevOps discipline and be responsible for managing application, server, and infrastructure related issues.

  
  

• Multi-vendor & multi-platform experience is required. 

  
  

• Experience working with global teams and guiding them through technical issues is highly preferred.

  
  

• Must be able to work independently, prioritize existing demands, and proactively determine areas requiring additional attention, monitoring, or maintenance.

  
  

• Experience working with JIRA & Service Now.

  
  

• Good team player that has the attitude to work with highest integrity.

  
  

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work with others to achieve objectives.

  
  

• Responds positively to change and the challenges and opportunities it brings.

  
  

Date Posted

Closing 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.