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Job Description

THE AMGEN CAPABILITY CENTER IN LISBON, PORTUGAL (ACCP) will be home to over 300 multi-national and multi-cultural employees, representing a broad range of cross functional capabilities, including Commercial, General and Administrative, Research and Development and more. The ACCP will offer rich career growth and development opportunities, regional and global exposure and the opportunity to LIVE, WIN and THRIVE in one of Europe’s most attractive cities.  

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 read over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us as:

Specialist Cloud Security Engineer

LIVE

What you will do

The Specialist Cloud Security Architect will be working with the Cloud Security Program helping advance AWS Cloud governance and audit posture, providing remediation strategies and executing project activities to complete tactical objectives. The Architect will play a key role in designing, deploying and maintaining solutions, automate security assessments, audits, policy and standard enforcements, and more. Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:

• Manage and implement technologies and processes relating to assigned Global Information Protection capability including issue identification and resolution, integration with other tools, documentation, gap assessment, gap resolution and continuous improvement of the capability
• Keep up to date, make recommendations, and participate in the implementation and continuous improvement of technologies and services in assigned information security domains
• Work with and provide guidance to Security Operations and other Global Information Protection team activities on security strategies, processes, response and technologies
• Support Incident Response on security incidents including contributing to mock security incident exercises
• Define, provide, and improve measurement and analysis on the assigned services including the use of appropriate applications and tools for reporting
• Participate in projects or initiatives where an IS Security Engineer is needed with a focus on ensuring inclusion of information security requirements
• Participate in proactive research and provide recommendations for continuous improvement on information security technologies, processes and services
• Develop, implement, and sustain operational scripts, data structures, libraries and programming code that optimize security in emergent compute patterns with diverse applications throughout the global environment.
• Analyze, design, develop and operate programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities in an advanced security context.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with analysts, engineers, data scientists to achieve continuous improvement in cyber defense/resilience.

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The cloud security professional we seek is team-oriented with these qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or similar.
• Experience with Amazon AWS, understanding of Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Secure DevOps, Security Operations, and other security domains for Cloud.
• Working/Emerging knowledge of Enterprise Cloud Solutions across IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. This may include: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, Box, etc.
• Emerging Knowledge of Identity Governance, Cloud SOC/SIEM, Key Management & Encryption, Public, Private and Hybrid cloud solutions.
• Good working knowledge of KMS, Encryption Technologies, Cryptographic Keys and usage. 
• Good hands-on experience with AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies. 
• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications and RESTFUL Services in an AWS Cloud environment Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Team-oriented, placing priority on the successful completion of team goals
• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative

THRIVE

What can you 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, develop, and move up and across our global organization.
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where colleagues are empowered to bring ideas to the table, take risks, and act.
• Generous Amgen Total Rewards Plan comprising healthcare, finance, wealth and career benefits.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Additional Information

The Amgen Capability Center Portugal will be temporarily located at the Maleo – Saldanha, Av. da República 18, 1050-191 Lisbon. We’re already gearing up to have our brand-new permanent office ready in the vibrant city center of Lisbon by the spring of 2022.

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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.