Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

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Join our team atAMGENCapability Center Portugal the #1 company in Best Workplaces (201500employeescategory)in Portugal in 2024by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over500talented individuals from more than40nationalities our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation excellence and inspiration.This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation supporting our mission To Serve Patients.

Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

At Amgen Technology isnt just a support function its a catalyst for discovery transformation and real-world impact. Here your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters

The Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS) will be responsible for designing building and maintaining scalable secure and reliable AWS cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep expertise 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.

The role involves mentoring a team of engineers across multiple functions including Cloud Engineering Cloud Operations Automation and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and collaborating with Technical Manager setting strategic direction building and driving operational excellence across the cloud ecosystem.

Letsdo this.Letschange the this vital role you will:

1. AWS Infrastructure Design & Implementation

• Architect implement and lead highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Build VPCs Subnets Security Groups and IAM policies to enforce security standard processes.
• 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 standard methodologies 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.
  • Solve 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 guidelines for cloud infrastructure versioning.
  • Support on-call for high-priority cloud incidents.

2. Mentoring & Strategy

• Mentor a team of cloud engineers and SREs ensuring technical growth.
• Collaborate in defining and implementing the cloud strategy ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science IT or related field
• 8-12 years of hands-on cloud experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM ECS/EKS API Gateway etc.).
• Expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation.
• Strong 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.).
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills in cloud networking storage and security.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Effective communication and collaboration with multi-functional teams.
• A passion for applying technology to make a real-world impact.
• bility to work in a fast-paced cloud-first environment.

Preferred requirements

• Familiarity with Backend development ().
• Familiarity with AWS CDK Ansible or Packer for cloud automation.
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure GCP).
• Familiarity with HPC DGX Cloud.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Azure or GCP Cloud Certification.
• Terraform Associate Certification.