Platform Engineer – Enterprise Golden Paths & Automated Governance
AstraZeneca23 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, version, test, and maintain enterprise GitHub Actions, including Composite Actions and Reusable Workflows.
- Create standardized delivery templates and secure automated golden paths for product teams.
- Build and maintain modular, reusable, documented Terraform infrastructure-as-code modules and assets.
- 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 pipeline-to-AWS authentication.
- Develop automation services and internal developer tooling in Python or Golang for onboarding, secure defaults, and quality checks.
- Support architectures spanning 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 and cross-functional engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams to drive adoption and continuous improvement.
- Apply AI tools and techniques to improve development speed, quality, secure design, and engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 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 across an enterprise organization.
- Understanding of Semantic Versioning for GitHub Actions, supply-chain pinning, and OpenID Connect authentication between pipelines and AWS.
- Strong experience with AWS compute, networking, security, and serverless services.
- Advanced expertise in Terraform and reusable infrastructure-as-code design.
- 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 enterprise CI/CD pipelines and applying 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, Java, .NET, React, AI-enabled engineering, or infrastructure testing frameworks such as Terratest is desirable.
Benefits
- Average minimum of three days per week working from the office, with flexibility around the in-person expectation.
- Opportunity to build enterprise platform capabilities supporting global pharmaceutical research and medicine delivery.
- Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity and collaboration across engineering, science, architecture, and product teams.
- Applications are open through 05-Nov-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.