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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Site Reliability Engineering II (Jira Support Engineer)

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What you will do

Job Summary

Would you like to take your full stack engineering skills and help deliver the world's most advanced and life-changing biotech medicines by building creative and ground-breaking software frameworks? Amgen is using cloud technology, DevSecOps frameworks, and migration and continuous deployment pipelines to create new drug therapies for patients that address grievous illnesses. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer primarily supporting Jira and Confluence with solid focus on customer support to fill a position in Amgen's newly built Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) team. Our small product team is a high-energy, tight-knit group who builds our DevSecOps framework used globally by Amgen development teams.

This position focuses on developing, improving, and supporting the Jira and Confluence services built into our CI/CD framework for all teams across Amgen. Our framework is built using open-source and AWS services, with Jira and Confluence used to handle the agile process integration. Our framework runs custom code development, DataOps, as well as tests and deploys Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications into Amgen’s cloud environment. We are currently extending our capabilities to integrate serverless and microservices CI/CD pipelines with AWS.

Job responsibilities:

• Support client teams configure their Jira workflows, screens, fields, permissions, and boards and solving problems.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills to work with client partners in constructive and positive engagements.
• Experience leading and balancing an effective support team who consult, fix problems, and train users on Jira best practices.
• Work with our scientific and client teams to provide consulting services that help them better implement Jira best practices
• Manage Jira and Confluence hosted in AWS and in Unix-based environment.
• Investigate and solve systems and applications issues, identify runtime deficiencies, find potential failures, and fix production issues.
• Upgrade and patch Jira and Confluence with minimal downtime.
• Be an integral member of the core SRE team and help automate, monitor, deploy, and operate the service 24x7x365 globally.

Basic qualifications

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Information Systems experience

OR

Associate degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience

Minimum Qualifications:

• Two (2+) years of experience as a Jira and Confluence administrator working on plugins, workflows, and schemes.
• Knowledge of cloud technology on AWS or other cloud technology platforms.
• Knowledge of various Linux environments. Distro's include Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, RedHat, and Amazon Linux. Familiarity with Windows OS’s is a plus.
• Application and system level debug and triage experience.
• Knowledge of JQL (Jira Query Language).
• Solid focus on customer support.
• Willingness to learn new technology and keep up with industry standard methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of a Unix-based environment. Distro's include Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, RedHat, and Amazon Linux.
• Hands-on experience with configuration frameworks for deployment such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience managing distributed runtime applications using programmatic interfaces.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with automated monitoring frameworks such as InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf, Prometheus, Fluentd, Kapacitor, etc.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology.
• Willing and able to learn new technology and mentor other specialists.

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF US

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

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