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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 Engineer III

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Site Reliability Engineering is a discipline that combines software and systems engineering into its DNA. SRE is a passion for automating the complexities of orchestrating and running cloud application services. SRE's dislike doing things twice, so they automate each step along the way! They have an attitude of automating, deploying, fixing, and operating production systems using CI pipelines and self-healing code. Collaboration with business owners and understanding diverse business requirements is a core skill. This position will be working on our core DevSecOps framework and cloud provisioning platform to ensure they deploy, operate, and are sustained to meet all SLAs and OLAs.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable, high-performant infrastructure on Amazon Web Service (AWS)

• Collaborate with business unit clients to identify automation and process improvement opportunities

• Deliver automation to business services to enable faster and consistent delivery

• Work with applications to use automated CI/CD pipelines and build secure cloud environments, identities, and services. Deploy applications into these cloud environments through automated processes and programmatic services.

• Maintain application reliability and uptime SLAs throughout the application lifecycle using programmatic self-healing and software automation

• Develop software to monitor and improve end-to-end platform performance, identify runtime deficiencies, find potential failures, and fix production issues

• Build deep, full-stack knowledge of the complexity of our platforms and applications. Work to simplify and automate deployment processes, run-time operations, and provide non-disruptive releases.

• Improve the durability, simplicity, performance, and maintainability of our integrated landscape

• Apply your expertise to our most complex digital projects. Meet with department and business unit clients to understand their application needs.

• Be responsible for driving feedback and new design ideas back into the DevSecOps platform team. Help identify and remediate architectural problems, scalability, availability, and performance issues.

• Be an integral member of the core global infrastructure services team and help develop, test, deploy, and operated the service 24x7x365 globally. Must be open to participating in an on-call rotation, as needed.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an outside the box thinker with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree OR

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 1- 2 years of related experience

OR

Associate degree and 6 years of directly related experience

Or

High School / GED and 8 years of directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud technology platforms

• Hands-on experience with configuration frameworks for deployment such as AWS CloudFormation Templates, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Salt

• Proven proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, and build tools such as Maven, Ant, Gradle or Ivy

• Solid knowledge of various Linux environments. Distro's include Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, RedHat, and Amazon Linux, as well as familiarity with Windows OS’s.

• Understand security and encryption technologies. Knowledge of authentication protocols including OpenID, OIDC, OAuth, SAML, and LDAP.

• Knowledge of Docker containerization and Kubernetes/EKS cluster management for container orchestration

• Experience with automated monitoring frameworks such as InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf, Fluentd, Prometheus, etc.

• Application and system level debug and triage experience.

• Experience managing distributed runtime applications using programmatic interfaces

• Experience running full stack application deployments and infrastructure cloud services (Storage, VMs, Network, etc.)

• Experience with ServiceNow

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

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.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey

• A 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—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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