Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS) for GenAI Ops

AstraZeneca; Gaithersburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Health benefits

Job summary

AstraZeneca seeks a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AWS-based platform that runs GenAI workloads. You will write infrastructure as code in AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python), create reusable constructs, and enable AI engineers to deploy at scale.

You will collaborate with ML/Data Science teams, implement observability, security, cost controls, and ensure compliance in a regulated environment. Hybrid work from Gaithersburg area is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years in a platform engineering, SRE or DevOps role where infrastructure code was the main output.
• Deep hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience including production infrastructure.
• Strong experience with AWS services (Bedrock, ECS, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with IaC: AWS CDK (Python/TypeScript) and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable AWS cloud platform capabilities for production ML/AI workloads.
• Write and maintain AWS IaC, including reusable CDK constructs.
• Build and operate containerized workloads using ECS and AgentCore.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities across compute, networking, IAM, secrets, storage and model access.
• Build CI/CD and GitOps workflows for safe automated deployments.
• Partner with ML teams to transition prototypes into production services.

Skills

AWS CDK

Python

TypeScript

Docker

ECS

SageMaker

Bedrock

Terraform

IaC

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

AstraZeneca seeks a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the AWS-based platform that runs GenAI workloads. You will write infrastructure as code in AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python), create reusable constructs, and enable AI engineers to deploy at scale.

You will collaborate with ML/Data Science teams, implement observability, security, cost controls, and ensure compliance in a regulated environment. Hybrid work from Gaithersburg area is expected.