Job Description

Job Title: Senior Tooling Engineer - Endpoint & Network Security

Career Level - E

Introduction to role:
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Join us at AstraZeneca as a Senior Tooling Engineer in our IT department. You will be responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of Information Services solutions. This role involves all aspects of planning, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of solutions, often working closely with third-party suppliers. You will also provide recommendations on enhancements, monitor performance and support maintenance of deployed solutions.

Accountabilities:
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As a Senior Tooling Engineer, you will provide technical expertise to project teams working on the development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of Information Services solutions and designs. You will work with project teams to ensure effective interoperability of services and technologies and assure alignment of solution designs with AstraZeneca standards, policies and procedures. You will also identify new hardware/software technologies to fit specialised business needs and configurations.

Essential Skills/Experience:
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• Prior experience in an Information Services/Information Technology environment with good business acumen (admin experience 7 yrs +)
• Large enterprise IT experience, ideally with significant networking and endpoint security exposure.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, IDS, XDR, SOAR technologies.
• Proven experience of managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers
• Experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures and guidelines
• Solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, identity management and access control.
• Familiarity with common attack techniques and their remediation or defence including social engineering, phishing, worms, trojans, rootkits, ransomware, XSS, SQL injection, remote command execution, session hijacking, DDoS, etc.
• Solid understanding of advanced networking configurations for hybrid-cloud in AWS, leveraging transit gateways and direct connect links.
• Experience in managing and delivering Enterprise Security Tooling capabilities with a solid technical understanding in this area
• Experience working in a systems administration organization - ideally implementing process automation
• Willing to work in 24•7 environment.
• Well versed in ITIL V3.0 practices and process
• Experience working in the Biopharmaceutical/Life Sciences industry
• Familiarity of working in an international, multi-time zone support environment.
• Relevant qualifications in Enterprise Security Tooling
• Experience of dealing with Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance
• Knowledge of business continuity, risk assessment and disaster recovery


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's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.


At AstraZeneca, we're passionate about patients. Our work has a direct impact on patients' lives by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We're invested in recognising, coaching and motivating you. Here, your personal and professional journey is filled with unlimited potential. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving mindset to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions.


Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? Apply now to 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.