Senior Associate AWS Cloud Engineer
Senior Associate AWS Cloud Engineer
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Join our team atAMGEN Capability Center Portugal number 1 company in Best WorkplacesTMhttps:// in Portugal (category 201-500 employees) by the Great Place to Work Institute. We have a team of over 300 talented people and more than 35 different nationalities diverse areas of expertise and professional experience that are shaping the future of healthcare. This is your chance to explore a world of opportunities in different areas such as Cybersecurity Data & Analytics Digital Technology and Innovation Finance General & Admin Human Resources Regulatory Affairs and many Lisbons city center our AMGEN office fosters innovation excellence and inspiration. Come thrive with us at AMGEN supporting our mission To Serve Patients. What we do at AMGEN matters in peoples lives.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE AWS CLOUD ENGINEER
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WHAT YOU WILL DO
The AWS Cloud Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable secure and reliable AWS cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation cloud networking and security. The ideal candidate should have strong AWS knowledge and be capable of writing and maintaining Terraform CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- AWS Infrastructure Design & Implementation
- Implement and manage highly available AWS cloud environments using VPCs Subnets Security Groups and IAM policies to enforce security best practices.
- Optimize AWS costs using reserved instances savings plans and auto-scaling.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
- Develop maintain and enhance Terraform & CloudFormation templates for cloud provisioning.
- Automate deployment scaling and monitoring using AWS-native tools & scripting.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Cloud Security & Compliance
- Enforce best practices in IAM encryption and network security.
- Ensure compliance with SOC2 ISO27001 and NIST standards.
- Implement AWS Security Hub GuardDuty and WAF for threat detection and response.
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization
- Set up AWS CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana and logging solutions for proactive monitoring.
- Implement autoscaling load balancing and caching strategies for performance optimization.
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues and conduct root cause analysis.
- Collaboration & DevOps Practices
- Work closely with software engineers SREs and DevOps teams to support deployments.
- Maintain GitOps best practices for cloud infrastructure versioning.
- Support on-call for high-priority cloud incidents.
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WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
Basic Qualifications and Experience:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT or related field with 5 years of hands-on cloud experience.
Functional Skills:
Must-Have Skills:
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM ECS/EKS API Gateway etc.).
- Expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of AWS networking (VPC Direct Connect Transit Gateway VPN Route 53).
- Experience with Linux administration scripting (Python Bash) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions CodePipeline etc.).
- Troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud networking storage and security.
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh architectures.
- Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with AWS CDK Ansible or Packer for cloud automation.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure GCP).
- Familiarity with HPC DGX Cloud.
Professional Certifications (preferred):
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
- Terraform Associate Certification
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced cloud-first environment.
THRIVE
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF US
- 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.
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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 crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
.Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
