JOB TITLE: INFORMATION ENGINEER

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

• 7-10 years of experience in IT Operations involving Data Science, Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.
• Experience in architecting and implementation of end-to-end AIOPs solutions through ELK stack, Splunk.
• Experience in applying statistical methods, analysis, pattern recognition and modeling on IT Operational data using ELK machine learning.
• Experience in extracting meaning full data from incoming data streams from different sources through RegEx, Grok etc. Hands-on experience in applying machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc in the IT Operation domain. Experience with machine learning and statistical programming languages - Python, R etc. Experience in assessing the existing IT environment and providing recommendations to reduce the critical applications impacting incidents. Experience in exploring and identifying areas where manual tasks can be automated in IT environment.
• Experience with various Enterprise IT monitoring solutions including Infrastructure monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Cloud monitoring etc.
• Experience in IT Service Management including Service Desk, Incident Management, Organizational Change, CMDB etc.
• Excellent knowledge on various IT infrastructure components that includes Server Infrastructure, middle ware, database and application architectures and Cloud Components.
• Experience/knowledge on Infra monitoring tools - NOI, Zabbix, AppDynamics, Datadog, SCOM, SolarWinds etc. and Service Management tools -IBM Control Desk, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow etc.
• Experience/Knowledge on BI tools Knowledge on distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, MySQL, etc. Knowledge on other programming languages/scripting: Python, Java, JavaScript, etc. ( Added Advantage ) Good analytical skills, strong communication skills are must.
• Client facing experience is an added advantage.
• Good experience in understanding the problem statement, architect and designing the solution

ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Significant experience with AWS cloud environments, working knowledge of Google and Azure platforms. Knowledge of Kubernetes, S3, EC2, Sagemaker, Athena, RDS and Glue is essential.
• Experience provisioning computational resources in a variety of Cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with standard methodology of data transport and storage within cloud system.
• Experience building large scale data processing pipelines. e. g. Spark and SQL.
• Experience with containers and microservice architectures e.g. Kubernetes, Docker and serverless approaches.
• Excellent working knowledge in DevOps, using continuous integration and continuous development.
• Use of Data Science modelling tools e.g. R, Python, SAS and Data Science notebooks (e.g. Jupyter).

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.

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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.