R2846549 DevOps Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

About the job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.  

As a DevOps Technical Leader at Sanofi, you will be responsible to drive the strategy, development, and scaling of our enterprise platforms built on AWS Cloud and Snowflake. The candidate will be responsible for defining DevOps standards and practices, leading a team of engineers, and working closely with enterprise digital teams to enable the reliable, and secure delivery of our platforms and data products that can scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership position where the candidate will help build a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across the organization.

 

Our vision for digital, data analytics and AI 

Join us on our journey in enabling Sanofi’s Digital Transformation through becoming an AI first organization. This means: 

• AI Factory - Versatile Teams Operating in Cross Functional Pods: Utilizing digital and data resources to develop AI products, bringing data management, AI and product development skills to products, programs and projects to create an agile, fulfilling and meaningful work environment.

• Leading Edge Tech Stack: Experience build products that will be deployed globally on a leading-edge tech stack.

• World Class Mentorship and Training: Working with renown leaders and academics in machine learning to further develop your skillsets.

 

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

About Sanofi 

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Establish DevOps Standards: Define, implement, and enforce enterprise-wide DevOps standards, best practices, and governance policies to ensure consistency, security, and efficiency across all platforms and teams.

• Platform Strategy and Architecture: Work with enterprise cloud architect to design and evolve solutions for automated provisioning, configuration management, and deployment.

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Oversee the design, development, and optimization of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment of applications and infrastructure.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the implementation of IaC using on Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, and RDS. Knowledge of AWS CloudFormation is a plus

• MLOps and Data Integration: Collaborate with data science and ML Engineers to establish MLOps capabilities and data pipelines that integrate seamlessly with various data platforms like S3 data lake, Snowflake and AWS data ecosystem.

• Data Governance and Analytics: Ensure robust data governance is built into our platform's design. Implement tools and processes for effective data analytics, monitoring, and reporting.

• Security and Compliance: Enforce security best practices, access controls (IAM), and compliance standards within the DevOps framework and across all cloud environments.

• Coding Best Practices: Setup and enforce coding best practices: enforce best practices for coding standards, security scans for vulnerabilities by automation. Setup standards for peer reviews through Pull/Merge Requests. Should be able to manually review the code quality of developers and show what great looks like.

• Team Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers. Assign responsibilities and guide them in adopting modern DevOps practices. Experience integrating LLMs (CoPilot/Amazon Q/Anthropic Code) into pipelines to detect issues and set guidelines for developers to be more productive

• Collaboration: Partner with development, QA, and other digital teams to foster a collaborative culture and streamline the software delivery lifecycle.

• Monitoring and Optimization: Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and cost efficiency. Conduct performance tuning and root cause analysis.

About You

Key Requirements & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is must; a Master's is a plus.

• 8+ years in software engineering and 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a minimum of 2 years in a leadership or Tech Lead role.

• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

• Extensive knowledge of CI/CD methodologies and tools. Experience working on GitHub and Github Actions.

• Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, RDS, and IAM. Experience with Snowflake, including data pipeline automation and integration with cloud-native services

• Experience implementing MLOps principles and integrating with data science and analytics workflows.

• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell, React JS.

• Extensive knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams. Should be able to lead the design discussions and present the solutions to larger audience

• Professional DevOps Engineer Certification from any major cloud providers (Professional) or other relevant certifications are a plus

 

Good to have Skills:

• Data warehousing on Snowflake and integrating it with cloud environments.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Why Choose Us?  

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. 

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. 

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact. 

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs 

AI Usage 

"Artificial Intelligence” refers to any systems that use automated processes, including algorithms and machine learning, to analyze data and make predictions, inferences, decisions, or recommendations without direct human involvement. These systems may process personal information to identify patterns, improve services, or support decision-making. The Company may use Artificial Intelligence for purposes including, but not limited to, resume screening and hiring, scheduling interviews or meetings, conducting surveys, matching skills with potential job openings, interview scoring, ensuring compliance with regulations applicable to our industry, and activities related to performance evaluation. Information collected and processed by the Company’s Artificial Intelligence systems may include the personal information detailed above and calendar availability. It excludes the information collected and processed for monitoring purposes. You should contact Human Resources if you have a question or concern regarding your personal information. You can also contact Canada’s Privacy Officer via Sanofi’s data subject request portal,  Data Subject Rights Webform. The Data Subject Rights Webform can also be used to request access or correction of your personal information and file a complaint. 

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants.  Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request. 

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

124,800.00 - 174,800.00 (Includes target bonus)

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefits programs, and additional benefits information can be found through the (CA)LINKOR (US) LINK.

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est la suivante:

124,800.00 - 174,800.00 (Comprend le bonus cible)

La rémunération finale sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée, des compétences, du lieu de travail et d'autres facteurs pertinents. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise, et des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sociaux peuvent être trouvées via le lien