AWS DevOps & AI Engineer

If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.

Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.

Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.

Are you ready to scale secure, automated AWS platforms and bring GenAI into production to accelerate how life-changing medicines reach patients? Join a platform engineering group that partners across data, engineering, and AI/ML teams to deliver reusable cloud capabilities and operationalize AI applications where they matter most!

You will build the foundations that let our scientists and clinicians move faster, with confidence. From codifying guardrails to enabling self-service deployments and AI integrations, your work will turn complex ideas into reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions. Do you thrive in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where your code unlocks impact at enterprise scale?

Cloud Platform Automation: Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar declarative configuration tools to deliver repeatable, secure environments.

CI/CD Enablement: Design and maintain pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI to ship changes safely and frequently, embedding quality gates and controls.

Secure-by-Design Engineering: Implement IAM the least privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, and governance guardrails that meet compliance without slowing delivery.

Containerized Workloads: Package and run services with Docker on ECS/EKS and orchestrate event-driven compute with Lambda for scalable, resilient apps.

Observability and Reliability: Instrument logging, metrics, and tracing using CloudWatch, Datadog, and Grafana; automate alerting and remediation; drive performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Reusable Platform Capabilities: Develop IaC patterns, blueprints, and self-service offerings that unblock engineering and data teams and set the standard on consistency.

Data and Integration Enablement: Provide patterns for data processing and transformation; integrate with enterprise APIs, databases, and cloud services; leverage messaging with SQS/SNS/Event Bridge.

GenAI on AWS: Develop Python integrations with AWS Bedrock, foundation models, LLM APIs, and embedding services; deploy production-ready AI-enabled applications with monitoring and guardrails.

RAG Solutions: Implement document ingestion, chunking, vectorization, retrieval, and grounded response generation to deliver reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

AI Operations and Evaluation: Monitor AI applications, analyze performance, optimize inference costs, and assist with timely engineering, model selection, evaluation, and troubleshooting.

Ways of Working: Collaborate closely with cloud, DevOps, data, and machine learning groups; integrate AI workloads into CI/CD and MLOps processes; chip in to engineering standards and mentor peers as capabilities scale.

Here, your engineering craft directly empowers science to move faster for patients. You will work in a high-energy environment that brings unexpected combinations of talent into the same room to spark bold thinking, where cloud engineers, data specialists, and AI practitioners co-create solutions end to end. We blend ambition with patience, pairing modern technology with a collaborative spirit so you can take smart risks, learn at speed, and see your ideas land in production. Your contribution will shape platform capabilities used across the enterprise, giving you the scope to build an exceptional reputation while making a tangible difference to patient outcomes.

If you are ready to build secure, automated, AI-enabled platforms that accelerate substantial impact, share your profile and show us how you will lead the next wave of engineering at AstraZeneca!

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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.

Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.

An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.

Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.