Job Description

Our Company

For more than a century, our Company has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world\'s most challenging diseases. Today, it continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

Our Singapore IT Hub

Established in 2015, our Company\xe2\x80\x99s Singapore IT Hub aims to harness digital solutions for better business outcomes. One of its key focuses is in using analytics and data science to guide better decision-making.

Home to more than 300 employees with over 20 nationalities, the Singapore IT Hub is part of a global network, with sister hubs located in the United States and Czech Republic. In Singapore, the hub houses a wide span of IT capabilities teams ranging from Data Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity & Risk Management to Enterprise Platforms and many more. Across Japan, China and the Asia Pacific region, the hub works closely with colleagues from all divisions of the company to drive our core business.

The Cloud Computing team develops the strategy and works with teams worldwide to govern, grow, and operate Cloud solutions. Our team embraces the regulatory challenges of our industry and drives innovative, secure, and compliant use of Cloud Service Providers. We collaborate closely with internal and external partners worldwide to mature our ability to utilize Cloud Service Providers. Our team also impacts application development agility worldwide via our cloud-based application hosting Platform as a Service (PaaS).

• Work with cloud users to resolve incidents and fulfill requests based on the agreed SLA
• Support cloud cost optimization activities such as termination and rightsizing of idle or underutilized resources in AWS and Azure
• Cloud finance tools access administration and maintenance
• Support cloud resources tag adherence-related activities such as monitoring and clean-up to ensure accurate cost allocation
• Support planning and execution of cloud financial management workshop and other initiatives/engagements
• General cloud operations activities, including reporting, progress tracking, and change coordination
• Work with our developers to test and maintain in-house automation
• Software development lifecycle technical writing

Qualification & Job Requirements

• Undergraduate or polytechnic student majoring in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
• Able to commit to at least six months internship period
• Programming skills, preferably Python
• Awareness & interest in cloud computing (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with PowerPoint and Excel
• Data visualization skills (e.g., Power BI, Spotfire) is a plus
• Working knowledge of front-end languages (JavaScript, HTML/CSS) is a plus
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and documentation skills
• Comfortable leading and facilitating small-scale meetings
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrates a growth mindset and comfortable working in an agile environment
• Fast & independent learner

Learning outcome to be gained by the intern

• Opportunity to gain more exposure in the cloud computing domain
• Exposure to working in an agile environment & global setup
• Continuous training on skills, competencies and tools
• Able to experience a wide range of technology, e.g. cloud infrastructure, serverless technologies, APIs, and more

Current Employees apply

Current Contingent Workers apply

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Employee Status: Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term)

Relocation: No relocation

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