AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business whose innovative medicines are used by hundreds of millions of patients worldwide. Our IT strategy is focused on Smarter, Faster, and Leaner and we are looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to play an active part in helping make this strategy a reality.
Cybersecurity is key to our IT strategy, as we move towards our objectives we are looking for Individuals who:
- Focus on innovation to maintain a sustainable risk position against the evolving threat landscape.
- Understand that we could be working against organized crime syndicates or state-sponsored attackers.
- Understand attackers’ motivations and their ways of working.
In this role you will operate within AstraZeneca’s global cybersecurity organization. You will collaborate and influence multiple functions across a general organization spanning China, India, Mexico, Sweden, US, and UK.
**Accountabilities (You will)**
- Engineer cybersecurity solutions spanning cloud, on-premises, and third-party collaboration environments, with a predominant focus on cloud and data.
- Collaborate with other teams in performing, assessing, and evolving IT processes that intersect any of our cybersecurity priorities.
- Map governance and compliance frameworks and their controls to technical implementation, shifting hardening processes as far left as possible.
- Leverage understanding of threats, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities around cloud and data to assist other areas in responding promptly and effectively to contain breaches or to address areas of concern.
**Desired Skills (You can)**




- Identify and articulate architectural trade-offs.
- Embed process, governance and security into workflow and technology.
- Design and implement software tools and services using modern programming languages.
- Manage and lead projects delivering prioritized initiatives at challenging deadlines.
- Exert positive influence in a matrixed organization to drive technology evolution.
- Drive efforts to achieve process and technology improvement at scale.
**Qualifications (You have)**
- Must have broad enterprise IT experience with significant cloud and data exposure.
- Must have in-depth understanding of security and networking protocols, cryptography, and modern authentication and authorization protocols.
- Must have experience configuring and managing cloud security services in an AWS organization at scale.
- Must have experience researching, designing, and implementing security policies, standards, and procedures, including those in cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK;, NIST CSF, NIST SP.800- 53, and NIST SP.800-61, as well as implementing cloud security reference architectures.
- Should have experience working in a software development and systems administration organization, implementing DevSecOps and process automation.
- Should have the ability to conduct post-mortem on security incidents and take post-mortem data to drive uplift in policies, procedures, standards.
**Strong English communication skills required.**
**Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.**
**Location: Guadalajara**(hybrid - Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week)

📌 Senior Engineer - Cloud & Data Security (Guadalajara)
🏢 Astrazeneca
📍 Guadalajara