Associate Director - DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering
AstraZeneca12 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive adoption of emerging cloud technologies, engineering standards, automation, security-by-design, and operational excellence.
- Provide architectural guidance for enterprise cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and multi-account AWS architectures using Control Tower and Organizations.
- Build Terraform frameworks and define Ansible standards, including modules, state management, workspaces, policy integration, and automation at scale.
- Implement DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy as code, security automation, and compliance automation.
- Design monitoring, logging, alerting, AIOps, and observability platforms with anomaly detection and auto-remediation capabilities.
- Design enterprise CI/CD pipelines and establish standards for blue-green deployments, canary deployments, and artifact management.
- Conduct architecture reviews, manage technical risks, recommend mitigations, document standards and runbooks, and mentor engineers.
- Collaborate across engineering, cybersecurity, and stakeholder teams while influencing technical direction and evaluating tools and technologies.
- Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps or cloud engineering with deep hands-on technical expertise.
- 5+ years of experience architecting enterprise-scale AWS solutions in production environments.
- Expertise with AWS networking, identity, compute, containers, serverless services, databases, storage, content delivery, monitoring, tracing, and security services.
- Expert-level Terraform and Ansible experience, including modules, workspaces, state backends, roles, collections, policy integration, and large-scale automation.
- Experience designing complex CI/CD pipeline architectures with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, secrets management, policy as code, and compliance automation.
- Production Kubernetes or EKS experience, including cluster management, service mesh, and security.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and AIOps platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK.
- Programming experience with Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
- Excellent presentation and documentation skills for technical and executive audiences, with proven cross-team collaboration and technical influence.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, CKA/CKS, and Terraform Associate or Professional.
- Preferred experience includes regulated pharmaceutical, healthcare, or financial-services environments; GxP, HIPAA, or SOC 2 compliance; platform engineering, SRE principles, FinOps, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures, serverless architectures, and AI/ML platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-person work arrangement with an average minimum of three days per week in the office in Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore, while allowing individual flexibility.
- Opportunity to work on rare-disease biopharma technology at Alexion within AstraZeneca, with cross-disciplinary collaboration and tailored development programs.
- Equal opportunity employer offering reasonable accommodations and a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAnsibleAWSBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonSonarQubeTerraform
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.