Senior AI Operations Engineer

Do you have   expertise   in, and passion for, AI-powered operational excellence? Would you like to apply your   expertise   to   impact   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, innovation-driven   BioPharmaceutical   business that focuses on the discovery,   development   and   commercialisation   of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. 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. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit.   There’s   no better place to make a difference   to   medicine,   patients   and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning,   growth   and development.   ABOUT OUR ENTERPRISE AI PLATFORMS & SERVICES TEAM   A place to do important work. We connect across the whole business to power each function to better influence patient outcomes and improve their lives. Impactful and valuable, this is where you come to raise your profile and do good for others. Play an increasingly crucial role in driving disruptive transformation on our journey to becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Unleash the power of our latest innovations in data, machine   learning   and technology to turn complex information into life-changing and practical insights.   Work in synergy   with leading experts in our specialist communities. Here we bring the brightest minds to bear, with access to   cutting-edge   techniques and the opportunity to be part of novel solutions.   It’s   up to us to drive the outcomes forward, inventing and building, expanding our knowledge to   identify   the next opportunity. An inclusive team, we bring together diverse areas –   different functions   as well as external partners. Pooling from an unrivalled source of knowledge, we share, learn and challenge. It powers us to decode business needs and apply our technical   know-how   to add greater value. Rise to the challenge of shaping the future of an evolving business in the technology space.   ABOUT THE ROLE   The Enterprise AI Platforms & Services Team   are responsible for   building and running the platforms,   tooling   and infrastructure that powers AstraZeneca’s ambition to use AI in every step of the value chain, from discovering new compounds to patient safety systems.   We are looking for a Senior AI Operations Engineer to be a hands-on technical leader within our AI/ML platform operations function. Reporting to the AI for Operations Lead, you will be the primary executor and technical driver across our growing platform estate, built on Azure and AWS. The ideal candidate will have deep, current experience in site reliability engineering and will combine strong individual contribution with mentoring and technical leadership of L1 and L2 engineers.   You will   operate   within a three-tier operations structure (L1 Runbook Operators, L2 Site Reliability Engineers, L3 Product Engineering interface) and be the senior hands-on practitioner who builds the automation, designs the observability, and drives the continuous improvement flywheel day-to-day. You will be a key contributor to AI-augmented operations — building and refining AI-powered tools for runbook querying, incident pattern analysis, and automated diagnosis.   This is not a traditional support engineer role. This is a senior technical position for someone who sees operations as an engineering discipline and who can design, build, and instrument systems to the highest standard while coaching other