Senior Consultant - DevOps

Job Title - Senior Consultant DevOps

Career level - D2

Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

ABOUT OUR IT TEAM

It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.

About the role

This is a great opportunity to join our growing Cloud Platform Engineering team delivering a multi cloud environment. We are expanding our team of highly skilled and hardworking individuals who are helping to enable and evolve our cloud capabilities. This is a great opportunity for someone who craves working with new tech in the cloud and is looking for responsibility, ownership and variety. You will be regularly challenged with new technologies, services, and ways of working in a large enterprise-scale environment.

Job description:

Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) is AstraZeneca’s brand new computing environment to pursue todays and tomorrows in-silico challenges. It strongly focuses on a platform concept, building capabilities and services around central building blocks. At its heart it uses 3 compute environments, a classical InfiniBand/Slurm HPC cluster, an OpenStack private cloud as well as various public cloud for elasticity and scale. To exploit these resource pools most optimally, SCP is deploying strong DevOps tooling and cloud native technologies. It seeks to adjust and adapt according to changing requirements and follow the science.

The engineers and architects in the SCP team are key to continuously deliver and support this critical capability. We are operating the SCP as a single distributed team with shared responsibilities. We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious and independently working Scientific Computing engineer to join our global team.

You will be joining an agile and hardworking team of technologists who share excitement for High-Performance & Big Compute, modern technology stacks and their application in science to change the life of patients.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Engaging in various activities spanning daily operations and development, exciting technology exploration and strategic project delivery.

• Own components of the platform, drive its operational excellence, prioritise the development backlog and craft the roadmap.

• Whether your interest is more operations or development focused, classical HPC or cloud computing, in hardware or applications, our team is operating the whole stack. Everyone on the team takes ownership for our success.

• You will become a trusted partner to our Science community, ensuring that we deliver technology on the highest standards to enable and push their work to the next level.

• Being able to translate partners’ needs into efficient solutions and applying engineering excellence to make science successful, will be your daily reward.

Required skills:

• Hands-on experience operating, crafting or engineering large-scale computing environments, such as HPC, HTC or BC, preferably Life Sciences (e.g. Pharmaceutical Industry, BioTech)

• Hands-on experience working in a DevOps teams and using agile methodologies and provide scientific software support for end-users: configuring, installing, tuning and maintaining such software.

• DevOps way of working with a strong enterprise service mentality, problem solving, excitement for technology and interest in accelerating science

• Configuration management (e.g. ansible, salt, puppet) and technology frameworks (e.g. easybuild) in IT operations

• Scripting and tool development for HPC & DevOps style platform operations using Bash and Python

• Solid background as a user or administrator of Linux systems.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Operation and configuration of public cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Managing a virtualized private cloud environment (e.g. OpenStack)

• Container technology (e.g. LXD, Singularity, Kubernetes)

• Proven development experience with a variety of programming languages, tools and technologies (Java/C++, Python/Ruby/Perl, SQL, AWS)

Educational background:

Any Bachelors/Master’s Degree from a reputed institution.

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.