Lead Consultant - Network Service Manager

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Network Service Manager

Career Level - E

Introduction to role:
Join AstraZeneca's IT team as a Lead Consultant - Network Reliability, a key facilitator influencing the future of network technology and delivering new products, processes, and standards throughout AZ. This role is part of the NRE team in a Scaled Agile operating model, where you will be responsible for the implementation, operation, and optimization of all network products. 

Accountabilities:
As a NRE Lead Consultant, you will own network implementation, operations, reliability and processes, crafting the crucial link between AZ strategic vision into Network solution engineering. You will perform regular audits to identify and remediate network risks or issues proactively and work with automation team to design, code, test and deliver software to automate repetitive and manual operational work. You will also troubleshoot priority incidents, engage and facilitate blameless postmortems and ensure permanent closure of incidents.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- CCIE/CCNP or equivalent certification with Minimum 10+ years of relevant working experience
- TOGAF or equivalent and ITIL certifications are added advantage
- Excellent communications skills
- Ability to analyze and resolve project-related issues
- Significant experience working with vendors, professional services, and providers
- Automation first mindset
- Strong technical knowledge in high availability design, implementation, optimization, and operations

- Experience in planning and conducting vigorous wireless network tests
- Good knowledge on public cloud connectivity Cloud exchange, direct connect, Express route to Public Cloud provides

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we're not just about treating diseases - we're about disrupting an entire industry and changing lives. Our work has a direct impact on patients, transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth.

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? Apply now to be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives.