DevOps Engineering Lead

Digital R&D DevOps Engineering Lead | Grade: L3-1

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• Job Title: Digital R&D DevOps Engineering Lead

• Location: Hyderabad

• Job type: Permanent, Full time

About the Team

We are an innovative global healthcare company driven by one purpose - to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. With a presence in over 100 countries, our teams are dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine and turning the impossible into the possible. We deliver life-changing treatments and life-saving vaccines to millions worldwide, while embedding sustainability and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do.

Sanofi has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation journey, with a strong focus on accelerating data-driven innovation and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to enhance R&D, manufacturing, and commercial performance. This transformation aims to bring breakthrough medicines and vaccines to patients faster and more efficiently.

Join our team as a DevOps Engineering Lead and play a key role in advancing engineering excellence across Digital R&D. You’ll contribute to shaping Sanofi’s global digital future, collaborating closely within our expanding Hyderabad hub.

What you will be doing 

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment of applications for both the ReactJS front end and back-end services.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use tools like Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources, including EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, and RDS.

• Containerization and Orchestration: Manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).

• AWS Environment Management: Deploy, manage, and maintain the AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• MLOps Platform Support: Collaborate with data scientists and MLOps team to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.

• Data Platform Operations: Automate data pipelines and manage the Snowflake environment, ensuring data governance, quality, and security.

• Monitoring and Logging: Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health, performance, and security of all applications and infrastructure.

• Security: Enforce security best practices, implement access controls (IAM), and ensure compliance across the entire cloud and platform stack.

About You

·       10+ years of experience with DevOps engineering and cloud-based solutions.

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on AWS cloud services.

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform. Good to understand AWS CloudFormation.

• Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub CI/CD and GitHub Actions.

• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, ReactJS and Shell.

• Knowledge of the complete software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.

• Hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.

Nice to have 

• Data warehousing on Snowflake and integrating it with cloud environments.

• Understanding of MLOps concepts and experience supporting machine learning pipelines is a plus.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• DevOps certifications are preferred.

• Experience in healthcare or life sciences domain is a plus.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!