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, automa

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