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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Principal Software Development Engineer - Cloud Architect

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will focus on innovating, developing, and extending our existing cloud environments using automation and programmatic pipelines. As the lead cloud architect, your role is to ensure our public cloud environments programmatically incorporate the latest capabilities and security controls of our providers. Our frameworks are built using open-source and AWS services. They manage custom code development, DataOps, as well as test and deploy Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications. We are currently extending our capabilities to integrate serverless and microservices CI/CD pipelines with AWS.

Would you like to take your cloud architecture and full stack development skills and help deliver the world's most sophisticated and life-changing biotech medicines by building creative and ground-breaking software frameworks? Amgen is using cloud technology, DevSecOps frameworks, and continuous deployment pipelines to build new drug therapies for patients that address grievous illnesses. We are seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer—Cloud Architect to fill a position in Amgen's Global Information Services Organization. Our small product team is a high-energy, tight-knit group who builds our DevSecOps framework and cloud operations platform that is used globally by Amgen development teams.

Job Responsibilities Will Include:

• Be the lead architect for our end-to-end cloud architecture and security design. Responsible for the design and part of the code needed to provision, manage, and operate our cloud services using programmatic pipelines.
• Develop, refactor, research and improve our cloud platform capabilities for all our client teams. Understand their business drivers and technical needs so our cloud services seamlessly, automatically, and securely provides them the best service.
• Provide technical leadership across Amgen to enhance the culture of innovation, automation, and solving difficult scientific and business challenges. Technical leadership includes providing deep cloud knowledge to our DevSecOps, DataOps, data science, and all other application teams using cloud services.
• Be constantly curious and feed your love and interests in groundbreaking technology. Use your given time to look for new and innovative ways to do business differently, better, and more efficiently.
• Lead selected efforts to craft, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions and services. Quickly and iteratively prove or disprove the concepts being considered.
• Be an integral member of the core cloud DevSecOps development team and help develop, test, deploy, and operate the service 24x7x365 globally.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Software Professional we seek is a collaborative and innovative team-player with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree and 2 years of related experience

OR

Master’s degree and 6 years of related experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of related experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of related experience

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 10+ years overall IT industry experience
• Minimum 3+ years in architecture role using public cloud solutions such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP

• Experience in solution delivery using Agile methodologies.
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Knowledge of authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraforms, Puppet, etc..

• Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Cassandra, Couchbase

• Software development full life-cycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools

• Extensive and practical knowledge of native cloud security controls and design patterns for AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, etc.

• Experience with machine learning tools such as Azure ML, AWS, Google, etc.

• Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.

• Experience in highly regulated industry will be a plus

• Experience of working in global distributed team will be a plus

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we 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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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.