CloudOps Engineer - Evinova

Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact., 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.
• 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 streamline environment provisioning and deployments.
• Mentor CloudOps engineers on CI/CD patterns and operational guardrails.

FinOps Leadership & Cost Optimization

• Lead cloud cost-efficiency initiatives across compute, storage, data services, and networking.
• Analyze usage trends and guide right-sizing, modernization, and storage tiering strategies.
• Partner with engineering and FinOps teams to forecast cloud spend and identify optimization 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 issues impacting availability or performance.
• Guide application teams on efficient usage patterns for MongoDB/RDS Aurora.
• Contribute to improvements in backup strategy, disaster recovery, and data resiliency.

Observability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry). Build and maintain runbooks, 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 to maintain audit readiness and reduce operational risk.
• Identify control gaps and contribute to continuous compliance automation., Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we’re here to support you through all of life’s ups and downs. That’s why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.

Ready to make an impact in your career? If you’re passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we’ll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for., Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience., Evinova, a healthtech leader under the AstraZeneca Group, is transforming its SaaS platform infrastructure and operations alongside our global teams. We leverage cutting-edge technology, data, and AI to revolutionize life sciences and improve billions of lives globally.As a Senior CloudOps Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader within our Platform Operations group-driving operational excellence across our global SaaS platform. You will own complex cloud operations, strengthen CI/CD reliability, lead cost-optimization initiatives, and provide deep expertise in 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 the capability to 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, * 5-8+ years in CloudOps, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.

• Deep, hands-on experience operating AWS environments at scale (EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Production-level expertise with 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 (Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead operational improvements.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• Advanced Kubernetes operations experience (Amazon EKS; scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting).
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles and AWS cost-management tooling.
• Experience with additional data technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka).
• Familiarity with regulated environments (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, GxP).
• Experience contributing to DR planning, failover testing, or reliability engineering programs.

AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.

We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.

Who do we look for?

Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world’s most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that’s powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day., 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. Sales Representative Oslo, Norway

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.

Christine Recchio

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. Sales Representative California, United States

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.

Stephanie Ling

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. Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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.

What we offer

We’re driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you., Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There’s no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We’ve also made all positions fully accessible., We’re committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We’ve reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.