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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

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, Information Systems, 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.

Our ACCP offices will be temporarily located at the Maleo – Saldanha, Av. da República 18, 1050-191 Lisbon, while we work toward finding a permanent office in the vibrant city center of Lisbon.

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.

Senior Associate – Cybersecurity Risk and Controls Analyst

LIVE

What you will do

The Cybersecurity Risk and Controls Analyst within Amgen’s Global Information Protection (GIP) organization plays a meaningful role in maintaining and advancing the internal controls' environment by working with cross-functional teams at Amgen to test and evaluate security risks and controls in information systems and projects.

The individual will support assigned capabilities within the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, with a focus on risk management activities like engaging and leading discussions with internal and external stakeholders, evaluating, documenting and communicating information security risks, recommending and testing IT controls and counseling on improvements of IT controls.

Key Responsibilities

You will bring forth out of the box thinking, an agile approach, proven domain expertise and a highly developed understanding of IT risks and controls to empower IT process and product owners to build and maintain secure and compliant IT solutions. Additionally you will perform the following activities and any additional tasks required to evaluate and continuously improves Amgen's information security posture, to optimally reduce risks and satisfy the security objectives of the organization:

• Advise project teams and application owners on information security risks and controls.

• Participate in projects or initiatives where a security risks and controls specialist is needed, with a focus on addressing risks by ensuring appropriate security controls are implemented.

• Evaluate compliance with security requirements.

• Evaluate IT controls’ design and implementation in various IT security processes.

• Test operating effectiveness of IT controls, including user access management, change management and computer operations for sophisticated IT systems.

• Assess the risks of control deficiencies and identify mitigating controls.

• Clearly document and effectively communicate risks and risk mitigation actions.

• Understand and leverage ISO and NIST information security frameworks to establish accountability and responsibility for controls within the information systems organization.

• Ensure quality of work and timeliness across different functional deliverables; take ownership of issues and coordinate through to completion.

• Providing input and ideas based on industry best practices and actual experience to help evolve the security risk and controls areas.

• Keeping up-to-date with emerging technological trends, security assessment and risk management methodologies and standards.

WIN

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The creative professional we seek is a self-driven individual with these qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems or computer science.

• Fluency in English language is required.

• 4+ years of IT audit, Information Technology / Security control assurance or enterprise IT compliance experience.

• Advanced industry recognized security certification (i.e. CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, Security+, etc.).

• Solid understanding of Information Security principles: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Knowledge of international standards for Information Technology and Information Security (i.e. ISO 2700x, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL, etc.).

• Outstanding ability to apply critical thinking to complex risk scenarios.

• Proven ability to understand new technologies and paradigms such as cloud, emerging Big Data technologies, lean methodologies to propose appropriate controls and compliance mentorship.

• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical matters to a non-technical audience.

• Ability to demonstrate solid sense of ownership, detail orientation, keen focus on quality and setting clear expectations.

• Outstanding partnership encompassing cross-functional teams, peer relationships, informing, understanding and appreciating differences.

• Working in large / global corporate environments involving multiple businesses.

THRIVE

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

APPLY NOW

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

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.

Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission – to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment and inclusion in all that we do.

We equip all our staff members to live well-rounded, healthy lives. Most recently, Amgen added benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry-leading, family-friendly offerings for families of all compositions.

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.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and uses its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.