Major accountabilities:

• Design, Code, Implement and Support Cloud product releases and enhancements.
• Transform requirements for new capabilities or changes from architects, operations or customers to include them in the design of Cloud components
• Work in close collaboration with Architects, Design Experts and Operations to integrate new solutions and perform post release L3/L4 operational support.
• Maintain backlog and support Scrum Master and Product Manager for prioritization of release items and Sprint planning.
• Create Cloud Service guidelines, standards including coding languages, code with comments, version control, version documentation, security considerations, audit requirement, change & release management
• Ensure operational supportability of design/development by working with operations team during design and development phase to ensure the developed solutions are always operationally supportable and are properly documented.
• Take accountability to ensure adherence with Security and Compliance policies.
• Document as required by quality, qualification processes and cloud platform services.
• Maintain Design Specification documents that are aligned with Architectural Handbook.
• Automate continuous delivery and on-demand capacity management solutions.
• Guide customers in the installation and use of strategic products through education, guidance and user manuals.
• Help to drive architectural improvements and standardization of Cloud environments
• Develop and enhance automated DevOps processes to release new solutions into the live environment.
• Ensure controls are in place for all configuration items and only authorized changes are made for all assets within enterprise IT environment.
• Create and own SoW with technology partners for resources and services.

Key performance indicators:

• Release delivery quality on technical (post release technical issues) and functional (use case requirement met/not-met) parameters.
• No major Sprint/Release disruptions and delays.
• Number of Stories delivered in time.
• Timely remediation of Backlog items, Risks and Gaps.
• Completeness and Accuracy of release artifacts and documentation.
• Zero Escalations on Novartis Values and Behavior principles from peers, stakeholders and vendors.

Minimum Requirements:
Education & Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• AWS Solution Architect – Associate / Professional
• 10+ years of relevant experience, working on a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, ECS, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS) to develop and maintain AWS based cloud infrastructure solutions, with an emphasis on best practices of cloud security.
• Engineering experience – responsible for influencing the design of complex public cloud Infrastructure solutions in view of automated operations
• Capability to think in terms of business value in the architecture and design of public cloud solutions end-to-end.
• Experience with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration technologies such as Docker, Jenkins and Ansible.
• Management of continuous integration services and pipelines like Jenkins using CFT / Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with Linux required; experience with Windows Server a plus
• Strong scripting and automation skills with one or more of the following: Python, Bash, Groovy, CFT, Terraform in an operational setting.
• Knowledge of IP networking and security in AWS – VPNs, DNS, Load Balancing

Skills & Competencies:

• Comfortable being the first line of defense in the event of an outage, capable of working with multiple vendors to arrive at a solution ASAP - Good at mitigating the outage to keep our business running
• Has one eye on cost, and one eye on the needs of the team.
• Track record of delivering projects on time and on budget, passion for coding, and good oral and written communication skills.
• Continues to iterate on Architecture to improve performance / reliability / durability / flexibility
• Need someone who can make a contribution day one and hit the ground running.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, knows when to call a meeting to get in alignment, and knows when it's time to just get things done.
• Proven track record working with multinational teams
• Good presentation and communication skills (written & spoken)

Languages:

• English.

Why consider Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here:

https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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