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Amgen is searching for a Sr. Associate Cloud Security Engineer who will be reporting into the Global Information Protection Organization in Amgen and will be based in Tampa, FL, at Amgen’s new Capability Center. At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients.
 

The Sr. Associate IS Security Engineer 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 Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining solutions, automating security controls, and maintaining the tools within Cloud Security portfolio.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Implementation of 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
• Support Incident Response on security incidents including contributing to mock security incident exercises
• Participate in projects or initiatives where an IS Security Engineer is needed with a focus on ensuring inclusion of information security requirements
• 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.
   

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree and 1 year of Information Systems and/or Computer Science experience OR

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science experience OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science experience OR

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science experience
 

Preferred Qualifications

• Comprehensive experience with Amazon AWS, understanding of Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Secure DevOps, Security Operations, and other security domains for Cloud.
• Experience using AWS Cloud Services (EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.)
• Good hand-on experience with AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies.
• Experience in one of the following: Java/Node.js/Python/JSON policy language
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effective working with global, virtual teams
• Team-oriented, placing priority on the successful completion of team goals
• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative
• Highly motivated and able to work effectively under minimal supervision
• Experience with technical documentation as it relates to the delivery of information security services in a regulated environment
• Prior experience as a security engineer supporting a multinational organization
• CISSP or equivalent security-related industry certifications
   

We understand that to successfully sustain and grow as a global enterprise and deliver for patients — we must ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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