Platform Engineer – Enterprise Golden Paths & Automated Governance
AstraZeneca1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, version, and maintain shared GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and standardized delivery templates for enterprise Golden Paths.
- Build secure, modular, reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code assets with documentation for broad adoption.
- Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM generation, supply-chain protections, and policy-as-code guardrails into delivery workflows.
- Create scalable and resilient CI/CD patterns using least privilege and secure enterprise standards.
- Develop automation services and internal developer tooling in Python or Golang for self-service onboarding, secure defaults, and quality checks.
- Design solutions across cloud, serverless, containerized, compute, and hybrid environments, including reference architectures and implementation guidance.
- Define and execute unit, integration, and environment-validation testing strategies for infrastructure code and automation.
- Partner with platform consumers to drive adoption, gather feedback, and improve developer experience and business value.
- Apply AI tools and techniques to improve development speed, quality, secure design, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, or a related technical engineering discipline.
- Hands-on experience authoring, testing, and maintaining centralized reusable GitHub Actions, including Composite Actions and Reusable Workflows.
- Understanding of GitHub Actions versioning, supply-chain pinning, and pipeline-to-AWS authentication using OpenID Connect.
- Strong AWS experience across compute, networking, security, and serverless architectures.
- Advanced Terraform expertise and experience designing reusable infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong scripting or software engineering capability in Python or Golang.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps controls including SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM, and software supply-chain security.
- Experience designing and implementing secure CI/CD pipelines in enterprise environments.
- Understanding of security-by-design, least privilege, and secure architecture principles.
- Experience building scalable, reusable, modular platform solutions rather than one-off implementations.
- Ability to create clear user documentation and architecture artifacts and collaborate across engineering, security, and architecture teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Relevant cloud, security, infrastructure, or DevOps/DevSecOps certifications are advantageous.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, hybrid or on-premises environments, Azure, modern application stacks such as Java, .NET, or React, AI-enabled engineering, or infrastructure testing frameworks such as Terratest is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with an average minimum of three days per week in the office while allowing individual flexibility.
- Opportunity to build enterprise platform capabilities supporting the discovery, development, and delivery of medicines.
- Inclusive and diverse workplace with collaboration across engineering, security, architecture, science, and product teams.
- Applications were scheduled to close on 08-Oct-2026; the posting date was 30-Sept-2026.
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.