Senior Engineer - Tooling(Sentinel)

Posted date Jun. 11, 2026

Contract type Full time

Job ID R\-254115

• *Why choose AstraZeneca India?**
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Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life\-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.

The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly\-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.

• *Who do we look for?**
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Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting\-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.

• *Success Profile**
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Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth\-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.

### **Tech innovators**

Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.

### **Ownership takers**

If you're a self\-aware self\-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.

### **Challenge seekers**

Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.

### **Proactive collaborators**

Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.

• *Responsibilities**
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• *Job ID** R\-254115 **Date posted** 06/11/2026 Job Title: Senior Engineer \- Tooling (Sentinel)
• *GCL: D2**
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• *Introduction to role:**
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Are you ready to own and improve our system for leading security events and related information? It is powered by Microsoft Sentinel and related security tools. This system protects the science that delivers life\-changing medicines. In this senior engineering role, you will be the hands\-on driver behind reliable, scalable, and well\-governed security platforms that safeguard our hybrid and cloud\-native environments.

You will collaborate across Cybersecurity Engineering, SOC Operations, Incident Response, and partner technology teams to turn telemetry into credible threat identification and remediation outcomes. Will you use automation and an AI\-first approach to raise signal quality, speed investigations, and reduce operational noise? Your decisions will directly improve resilience, compliance readiness, and the confidence our scientists and colleagues have in the technology they use every day.

• *Accountabilities:**
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• Security Tooling Operations: Coordinate and support enterprise security tools independently. This includes Microsoft Sentinel for security information and event management, endpoint threat detection and mitigation systems, NAS Protect, and other related platforms. Maintain these tools to ensure they remain reliable, protected, and efficient for wide\-ranging detection and response.
• Platform Administration and Support: Perform platform administration, health monitoring, fix, integrating telemetry, connector and agent support, policy tuning, upgrade coordination, performance optimization, and operational maintenance across supported tools to improve reliability and coverage.
• Service Management: Operate and improve incident, problem, change, and release processes for security tooling, meeting agreed service expectations while driving predictable, auditable operations.
• Monitoring and Data Insight Enablement: Assist in improving observation and analytical capabilities by refining data ingestion, parsing, normalization, alerting logic, dashboards, telemetry validation, and detection content to ensure signals are timely, relevant, and actionable.
• Protection Tooling Support: Strengthen endpoint and storage protection by handling EDR and NAS Protect agent health, platform coverage, policy effectiveness, event quality, and integration with wider security and technology services.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure tooling operates in line with control measures, policy, regulatory standards, audit readiness, access control, retention, and security data handling requirements demanded by a regulated enterprise.
• Risk and Issue Management: Identify operational risks, control gaps, integration weaknesses, telemetry issues, and performance concerns; chip in to risk assessment, remediation planning, and prioritized critical issue to protect business operations.

• *Essential Skills/Experience:**
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• Experience: Typically 5\+ years of background in information security technologies and processes, with strong hands\-on experience in security tooling engineering, administration, or operations in large enterprise environments.
• Tooling expertise: Practical experience operating and supporting multiple security platforms, including some combination of SIEM, EDR, NAS Protect, security analytics platforms, endpoint security tooling, storage protection tools, logging pipelines, telemetry tooling, cloud security tools, identity\-related security tooling, network security technologies, or related cyber security platforms.
• Operational capability: Experience in platform configuration, resolving issues, telemetry onboarding, connector or agent management, policy tuning, integration support, upgrade coordination, and performance optimization.
• Automation and scripting: Experience using scripting or automation, such as PowerShell, Python, or similar, to improve operational efficiency, service quality, and platform supportability.
• Cyber security analysis: Practical understanding of security risk identification, telemetry analysis, log review, operational issue investigation, and platform\-related response support.
• Awareness of regulatory and oversight requirements: Experience supporting tools in environments subject to regulation and oversight, including security data management, access controls, retention, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Adaptability: Ability to learn new tools quickly and adapt to evolving hybrid, cloud\-native, and vendor\-based security ecosystems. An AI First approach is encouraged, including comfort with applying, evaluating, or supporting intelligent automation and predictive analytics principles within cyber security tooling use cases.

• *Desirable Skills/Experience:**
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• Experience supporting SIEM migrations, EDR transformations, NAS Protect enhancements, telemetry modernization, or large\-scale tooling integrations.
• Experience working in a global, regulated organization with geographically dispersed and multicultural teams.
• Knowledge of recognized security and compliance frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and supervised control environments such as SOX, GxP, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting vendor\-managed tooling, handled detection services, audit activities, control reviews, service reviews, or compliance assessments.
• Experience chipping in to cost\-effective, sustainable, and supportable technology operations, including awareness of license usage, support overhead, operational efficiency, and service value.
• Relevant security certifications applicable to the tooling or platform domain.
• Familiarity with applying AI concepts in cyber security operational use cases.

• *Why AstraZeneca:**
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Here you will apply your engineering craft to technology that directly enables breakthroughs for patients. We bring unexpected teams into the same room to solve problems from multiple angles, combining scientific curiosity with leading digital platforms and data. You will have the backing to experiment with modern tools, from automation to AI, while working with diverse, inclusive teams that value perseverance alongside ambition. We operate at global scale, building partnerships inside and out, and we care simplicity and sustainability as much as speed—so the solutions you build today can power discovery tomorrow.

• *Call to Action:**
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If you’re ready to build resilient, modern security tools, you can see your impact across a data\-focused enterprise. Submit your application today!

• *Date Posted**

11\-Jun\-2026

• *Closing Date**

15\-Jun\-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry\-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non\-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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• *Reasons to Join**
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### **Thomas Mathisen**

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Sales Representative Oslo, Norway

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

### **Christine Recchio**

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work\-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

Sales Representative California, United States

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work\-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

### **Stephanie Ling**

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

• *What we offer**
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We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.

### **Lifelong learning**

Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.

### **Autonomy and reward**

Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high\-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance\-based rewards as part of the package.

### **Health and wellbeing**

An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work\-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.

### **Inclusion and diversity**

Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.