Platform Engineer – Enterprise Golden Paths & Automated Governance
AstraZeneca23 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, version, and maintain centralized GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and standardized delivery templates.
- Build secure, modular, reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code assets for broad enterprise consumption.
- Integrate 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 developer tooling in Python or Golang for self-service onboarding, secure defaults, and quality checks.
- Design solutions and reference architectures spanning cloud, serverless, containerized, compute, and hybrid environments.
- Define and execute unit, integration, and environment-validation testing strategies for infrastructure code and automation.
- Partner with engineering, security, architecture, operations, and platform consumers to drive adoption and improve developer experience.
- Apply AI tools and techniques where appropriate 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 enterprise-scale reusable GitHub Actions, including Composite Actions and Reusable Workflows.
- Understanding of semantic versioning, supply-chain pinning, and OpenID Connect authentication for GitHub Actions to AWS.
- Strong AWS experience across compute, networking, security, and serverless architectures.
- Advanced Terraform expertise and experience designing reusable infrastructure-as-code modules.
- 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, secure architecture, and scalable modular platform solutions.
- Ability to create clear user documentation, architecture artifacts, and implementation guidance.
- 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, container orchestration, hybrid or on-premises environments, Azure, Java, .NET, React, AI-enabled engineering, or Terratest is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with an average minimum of three days per week in the office and flexibility around individual needs.
- Opportunity to build enterprise platform capabilities supporting technology and medicine discovery, development, and delivery.
- Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity and collaboration across engineering, security, architecture, science, and product teams.
- Application closing date is 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.