Incident Management Reliability Engineer

Sanofi Group; Bellprat; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi in Barcelona is seeking an Incident Management Reliability Engineer to safeguard critical IT services across a global biopharma environment. You will lead Major Incidents, champion incident response, and apply reliability engineering to minimize disruptions and accelerate recovery.

You'll work within the Service Quality team, collaborating with IT, security, and business partners in a hybrid Barcelona-based setup, driving continuous improvement with ITIL/SRE practices and modern tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in incident management or reliability engineering.
• Strong foundation in networking and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Familiarity with ITIL v4 or crisis leadership training is preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken communication; collaborative team player.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end management of Major Incidents (P1/P2) with clear stakeholder communication.
• Act as command centre lead during critical outages, coordinating across teams.
• Maintain detailed incident documentation: root cause, timeline, resolution steps.
• Drive post-incident reviews and implement actions to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure ITSM processes, escalation, and risk controls are followed.
• Provide technical leadership and guide cross-functional troubleshooting during high-severity outages.
• Apply a structured, data-driven approach with AIOps to restore service quickly.

Skills

Networking

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud technologies

Virtualization

Containerization

Automation

Databases

Middleware/Scheduling

ITIL

English fluency

Education

ITIL v4 / Service Operations

SRE Foundation/Practitioner

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Incident Command System (ICS)

Tools

None

Job description

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

About the Job

As an Incident Management Reliability Engineer within our Service Quality team, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding the stability and resilience of critical IT services that support a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patients' lives.

Sitting at the heart of Sanofi's Digital organization, you'll blend deep incident management expertise with reliability engineering principles to minimize disruptions, accelerate recovery, and continuously raise the bar on system performance. This is more than keeping the lights on — it's about transforming every challenge into an opportunity for growth, and ensuring that the technology powering life-changing medicines never misses a beat

About Sanofi

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health, committed to chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions

At Sanofi, we believe our people are our greatest strength, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives drive innovation. Our values — Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, and Lead Together — guide everything we do

Main responsibilities:

Incident Management

• Partner Lead end-to-end management of Major Incidents (P1/P2), ensuring timely resolution and clear stakeholder communication
• Serve as Serve as command centre lead during critical outages, coordinating seamlessly across technical and business teams

• Maintain accurate and detailed incident documentation — root cause, timeline, and resolution steps

• Drive post-incident reviews and ensure action items are implemented to prevent recurrence
• Uphold consistent communication and escalation processes aligned with ITSM best practices (ITIL)
• Provide technical leadership and guidance during major incidents, challenging and validating diagnosis, troubleshooting approaches and proposed resolution actions to improve the quality and speed of technical decision-making
• Bring the right technical expertise together, facilitate cross-functional troubleshooting, and help teams identify and resolve complex technical issues, particularly during high-severity and business-critical outages
• Drive a structured, AIOps and data-driven approach to diagnosis and resolution, ensuring that technical teams remain focused on restoring service while maintaining appropriate risk controls

Reliability Engineering

• Partner with service owners and platform teams to enhance service reliability, observability, and fault tolerance
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms
• Analyse incident trends and develop targeted reliability improvement plans
• Contribute to capacity planning, change reviews, and failure mode analysis to anticipate and mitigate risks
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs/SLAs to measure and communicate service health

Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with problem management to identify recurring issues and lead root cause elimination initiatives
• Automate operational tasks and enhance service recovery using scripts, runbooks, and AIOps tools
• Shape the evolution of the Major Incident Process, embedding best practices across the organization

About you:

• Experience: 8+ years in incident management, reliability engineering, or a related IT operations discipline
• Technical skills: Strong foundation in networking and infrastructure as code; additional experience in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP), virtualization, containerization, automation, databases, and middleware/scheduling is a plus
• Certifications (preferred): ITIL v4 or Service Operations, SRE Foundation/Practitioner, cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP), or Incident Command System (ICS) / equivalent crisis leadership training
• Soft skills: Exceptional communicator — calm under pressure, clear with stakeholders at all levels, and a natural collaborator who thrives in fast-moving, high-stakes environments
• Languages: Fluent English (written and verbal)

Why choose us?

• Global mission, real impact — your work directly supports the technology that brings life-changing medicines to patients worldwide
• Be the guardian of resilience — own the reliability of critical systems that thousands of colleagues and patients depend on every day
• Drive continuous innovation — leverage AIOps, automation, and modern SRE practices in a large-scale enterprise environment
• Collaborative, service-first culture — join a team where quality is a shared purpose, not just a metric
• Grow with us — access world-class learning opportunities, certifications, and a clear path to deepen your expertise in reliability and service excellence

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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