Role based in Barcelona - 3 days at office / 2 days at home
As a SeniorCloudOpsEngineer you will serve as a technical leader within our Platform Operations groupdriving operational excellence across our global SaaS platform. You will own complex cloud operations strengthen CI/CD reliability lead cost-optimization initiatives and provide deepexpertisein AWS Kubernetes (EKS) and database operations (MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora).
This role requires a strong operations mindset the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues and thecapabilityto influence engineering practices across teams. You will mentor junior engineers lead automation efforts and help shape the standards that ensure the platform is secure reliable and cost-efficient at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Operations & Reliability Ownership
Lead day-to-day operational support across AWS accounts (EC2 EKS RDS S3 VPC IAM).
Own lifecycle management activities including patching scaling performance tuning and backup strategy.
Serve as an escalation point for major incidents; lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
Improve operational resilience through automation standardization and proactive monitoring.
CI/CD Automation & Platform Enablement
Architect improvements to CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD GitHub Actions Jenkins) to increase reliability and reduce deployment friction.
Drive automation of repetitive operational tasks using Python Bash or similar.
Partner with engineering teams to streamlineenvironmentprovisioningand deployments.
MentorCloudOpsengineers on CI/CD patterns and operational guardrails.
FinOps Leadership & Cost Optimization
Lead cloud cost-efficiency initiatives acrosscompute storage data services and networking.
Analyze usage trends and guideright-sizing modernization and storage tiering strategies.
Partner with engineering and FinOps teams to forecast cloud spend andidentifyoptimization opportunities.
Drive accountability by defining and tracking cost KPIs across services.
Database Engineering & Data Operations
Lead operational ownership of MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora (performance tuning scaling failover backup/restore validation).
Diagnose and resolve complex database issuesimpactingavailability or performance.
Guide application teams on efficient usage patterns for MongoDB/RDS Aurora.
Contribute toimprovements in backup strategy disaster recovery and data resiliency.
Observability Monitoring & Incident Management
Design and enhance monitoring alerting and dashboards (CloudWatch Grafana SplunkOpenTelemetry).Build andmaintainrunbooks SLOs and operational playbooks.
Improve alert quality signal-to-noise ratio and overall response processes.
Champion observability adoption across teams to reduce MTTR and improve uptime
Security Compliance & Operational Governance
Enforce strong IAM governance least-privilege access and secure operational patterns.
Lead patching vulnerability remediation and evidence collection for compliance (SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA).
Partner with Security tomaintainaudit readiness and reduce operational risk.
Identifycontrol gaps and contribute to continuous compliance automation.
Required Experience & Qualifications
58 years inCloudOps DevOps SRE or infrastructure engineering roles.
Deep hands-on experience operating AWS environments at scale (EC2 RDS EKS S3 CloudWatch).
Production-levelexpertisewith MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora (operations optimization DR).
Strong automation and scripting capability (Python Bash or similar).
Hands-on experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment platforms.
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills across cloud networking and application layers.
Experience with observability tooling (CloudWatch Grafana SplunkOpenTelemetry).
Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead operational improvements.
Operations leader:thrives in environments where reliability cost-efficiency and stability matter most.
Proactive problemsolver:anticipates issues and drives long-term technical improvements.
Data-driven:usesmetrics logs and cost data to guide decisions.
Collaborative communicator: comfortable partnering with engineering product and compliance.
Desired Experience & Qualifications
Advanced Kubernetes operations experience (Amazon EKS; scaling upgrades troubleshooting).
Strong understanding of FinOps principles and AWS cost-management tooling.
Experience withadditionaldata technologies (PostgreSQL MySQL Kafka).
Familiarity with regulated environments (HIPAA GDPR NISTGxP).
Experience contributing to DR planning failover testing or reliability engineering programs.
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Date Posted
26-ene-2026Closing Date
30-ene-2026AstraZeneca 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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