Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Advisory Lead

Career Level - E

Introduction to Role:
Are you ready to maximize value from our DevOps Services Portfolio? As a DevOps Advisory Lead, you will work closely with our business and technical teams, identifying and delivering new services, and providing solutions to meet customer demands. This is a key role within our IT team, offering the opportunity to work inclusively in a diverse team to drive change and make a real difference.

Accountabilities:
In this role, you will be responsible for stakeholder management and customer satisfaction, communication of the product roadmaps and new services, requirements definition, demand capture, and business case deployment. You will also be tasked with demand forecast for the DevOps Services, delivery of new services to the customer, ensuring the customer\xe2\x80\x99s DevOps footprint is efficiently used and sized, tracking service usage, driving service lifecycle management, and collaborative work across global teams of business partners, developers, vendors, offshore support teams, and other stakeholders.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Engage with Business Area(s)/Region and associated stakeholders to understand and anticipate their current and future requirements.
- Ensure all key stakeholders are aware of the portfolio of services and associated development roadmaps.
- Build an overall forecast of demand and ensure that this is delivered to exceed expectations.
- Play an active role in the prioritization and governance of new service development.
- Drive optimization of the DevOps Estate.
- Track service usage, manage the service lifecycle to the customer.
- A self-starter with high levels of drive, energy, resilience, and a desire for professional excellence.
- Broad understanding of industry best DevOps Practices and CI & CD Enterprise Patterns, private and public cloud hosting services, and associated commercials and costs.
- Foundation-level knowledge of ALM Tools (Jira/Confluence/GitHub), CI & CD(Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub Actions), Containers(Docker, Kubernetes), Storage, Middleware, Databases, Access Management, and SSO.
- Strong analytical skills and experience of related toolsets, with the ability to present clear information related to status and issues.
- Vendor and contract management skills.
- Knowledge of DevOps, Sysops and IssueOps Operating Models.
- Ability to collaborate across different technology services.
- Drive measurable continuous improvements across services and the team.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
While we have no specific desirable skills or experience listed for this role, we encourage all interested candidates who meet the essential skills/experience to apply.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That\xe2\x80\x99s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn\'t mean we\xe2\x80\x99re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we dare to lead. We\'re a network of entrepreneurial self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. Our work has a direct impact on patients, transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth.

Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now to join our team!

Date Posted 16-Jan-2024

Closing Date 15-Feb-2024

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.

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