Associate Director - DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering

Job Title: Associate Director - DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering Global Career Level: E Role: Individual contributor role Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore. About Alexion At Alexion, our mission is to transform the lives of people affected by rare diseases through the development and delivery of innovative medicines as well as supportive technologies and healthcare services. Introduction to role At AstraZeneca, we are accelerating our digital transformation by enabling secure, scalable, and compliant technology platforms that power scientific innovation, business operations, and patient outcomes. You will serve as a technology leader responsible for advancing DevSecOps practices, cloud engineering capabilities, platform engineering, and cybersecurity. Working closely with stakeholders, cybersecurity teams and engineering teams, you will champion a culture of automation, security-by-design, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. This role combines strategic leadership, technical depth and organizational influence to improve engineering productivity, reduce technology risk, strengthen cybersecurity posture, and accelerate delivery of business value across the enterprise. Accountabilities • Driving technical innovation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies and standard methodologies • Providing architectural guidance for cloud migrations and modernization initiatives • Conducting architecture reviews and ensuring adherence to established standards • Managing technical risks and recommending mitigation strategies • Establishing and maintaining user documentation and runbooks • Design and manage multi-account architectures using Control Tower and Organizations; establish standards and reference designs; drive FinOps and cost optimization. • Build Terraform frameworks with modules, state management, and policy enforcement; define Ansible standards; implement Policy as Code (AWS Config). • Implement DevSecOps practices, design security-by-default architectures; implement vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Qualys, AWS Inspector, SonarQube); implement secrets management. • Design monitoring platforms (CloudWatch / Prometheus / Grafana / ELK); leverage AI tools and capabilities for anomaly detection and auto-remediation, implement AIOps and Observability. • Design CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications; architect blue-green and canary deployments; establish artifact management standards. • Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance and reviews; mentor engineers; evaluate tools and technologies; collaborate across teams; establish standard processes and documentation. Essential Skills/Experience • 8+ years in DevSecOps/Cloud Engineering with deep hands-on technical expertise • 5+ years architecting enterprise-scale AWS solutions in production environments • AWS expertise: VPC/Transit Gateway, IAM/SSO, EC2/EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, S3/CloudFront, CloudWatch/X-Ray, Inspector, Security Hub, Config, Control Tower, Organizations • IaC expertise: Expert-level Terraform (modules, workspaces, state backends, policy integration) and Ansible (roles, collections, automation at scale) • CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI with complex pipeline architectures • Security automation: Hands-on with vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, secrets management, policy as code, and compliance automation • Container orchestration: Production Kubernetes/EKS experience including cluster management, service mesh, and security • Observability: Implementation of monitoring/logging/alerting platforms with AIOps capabilities (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK) • Programming: Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling • Communication: Excellent presentation and documentation