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Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

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.

Site Reliability Engineer

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About Amgen

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

What you will do

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems. As an SRE, you will combine software engineering practices with systems administration to build and maintain large-scale, highly available systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-performance, cost-effective, and reliable systems.
• Build and manage automation tools for deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting; and maintain run-time operations, improve efficiency, provide non-disruptive releases
• Select and utilize appropriate automated testing tools for different testing types (unit, integration, performance, etc.). Develop and implement comprehensive test automation frameworks.
• Develop deep, full-stack knowledge of our platforms and applications. Maintain application reliability and uptime SLAs using programmatic self-healing and software automation
• Collaborate with development teams to analyze and improve system reliability and performance.
• Respond to incidents and outages, providing timely resolutions.
• Work with other SRE’s and test engineers at Amgen and help lead and evolve the best testing automation practices

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What we expect of you

Basic Qualifications:

• Working experience with various cloud services on AWS (Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong programing skills in language such as Python. Working experience of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Working experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Proficiency in automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, pytest).
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Working experienced with API integration, serverless, microservices architecture.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems and networking.
• Working experience with DevOps/MLOps practice and CI/CD pipelines
• Solid knowledge of big data platform, experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience maintaining the site reliability with near 100% uptime of critical applications, globally
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Education and Professional Certifications

• Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of experience with various cloud services OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of experience with various cloud services OR
• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of experience with various cloud services
• Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc.).

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Thrive

What you can expect of us

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.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Equal opportunity

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 with 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.

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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