Senior AI Operations Engineer – AstraZeneca Spain Location: Barcelona, Spain (or Madrid). Visa sponsorship available. Full‐time contract.
Overview AstraZeneca's Enterprise AI Platforms & Services Team seeks a senior technical leader to build and run the platforms, tooling and infrastructure that power AI across the business. The role focuses on platform operations on Azure and AWS, with a strong emphasis on site reliability, observability, automation and AI‐augmented tools.
Responsibilities Design, build and maintain the centralized observability layer – instrumentation, dashboards, alerting rules and telemetry pipelines.
Architect and implement AI‐augmented operations tooling such as conversational runbook interfaces, AI‐driven incident analysis and pattern recognition systems.
Lead complex incident response, perform root‐cause analysis and produce actionable post‐mortems.
Contribute patches and instrumentation to product engineering codebases.
Evaluate vendors and recommend technologies and automation tooling.




Build and maintain automation that powers the continuous improvement cycle; create runbooks, automation or patches for every incident.
Own the technical execution of automation investments prioritised by frequency, resolution time and blast radius.
Maintain the standard of no more than 50% of site‐reliability‐engineer time on reactive work.
Develop and maintain runbooks, ensuring they are accurate, current and progressively automated.
Implement the Operational Readiness Gate, assess platforms against defined criteria before transition to operations ownership.
Shape platform operability during development – instrumentation, health checks and observability hooks before BAU.
Provide technical input to platform architecture reviews from an operational perspective.
Mentor and coach L1 operators and junior L2 SREs; support their development pathway from L1 to L2.
Prepare flywheel metrics: L1 resolution rate, repeat incident rate, automation coverage, and toil budg

📌 Senior AI Operations Engineer at AstraZeneca (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona