Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for designing and implementing information system architectures to support business needs. You will analyze requirements, develop architectural designs, evaluate technology solutions, and ensure alignment with industry best practices and standards. Your expertise in system architecture, strong problem-solving abilities, and ability to communicate complex technical concepts will enable you to deliver robust and scalable IT solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Be the owner and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Active Directory (on-premises and Azure), PKI, Oracle LDAP and various related systems and work as the liaison between the business and the technical staff to provide a translation of business requirements/issues to technical requirements/issues and vice-a-versa.

• Define a service strategy, roadmap, and execution plan to deliver high impact business value and partner with the other Identity teams to engineers to implement solutions for cloud, mobile and on-premise applications.

• Conduct, lead, or provision technology and service reviews to baseline and set service improvement goals and initiatives

• Provide support and consultation to clients or project teams to identify requirements and assist with application configurations and deployments using Amgen’s directories

• Monitor operational and performance statistics for managed systems to ensure reliability and availability and work with the operations team to maintain growth statistics, space forecasts, etc. Oversee production change control schedule and participates in change control processes

• Resolve issues called out from Amgen’s operational support vendor and provide expert level solve for issues that bridge subject areas and technologies beyond team capabilities

• Create and maintain user documentation such as SOPs, design documents, operational drawings, manuals, etc.

• This position may have after hours responsibilities

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience or related field OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Information Systems experience or related field OR

• Associate’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems experience or related field OR

• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Information Systems experience

Must-Have Skills:

• Ability to analyze and interpret complex data to identify and remediate issues

• Sharp learning agility, problem-solving and analytical thinking

• Scripting skills such as PowerShell or Python

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Strong Microsoft Active Directory skills including AD and Azure AD and LDAP Directory Services

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

• Strong knowledge of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

• Good working knowledge of DNS and WINS

• Experience with mobile device authentication and management

• Experience with managing regulated systems - FDA/SOX

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with IS Security

• Experience with Agile Project Methodology

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their IAM services.

• Knowledge of IGA principles, including role-based access control (RBAC)

• Knowledge of incident response procedures and the ability to manage security incidents related to identity management

Professional Certifications:

• Microsoft, GCP or AWS Cloud (preferred)

• Security Certification (preferred)

• Microsoft Azure Certification (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and solve 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

Work Hours: 

• This position operates on the second shift, from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM IST. Candidates must be willing and able to work during these hours, including weekends and holidays as required. 

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that deal with others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

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

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 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.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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 accommodation.

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