AWS Cloud Engineer Operations & Automation

Shanghai - China

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

AWS Cloud Engineer (Junior) Operations & Automation

Workday Job Profile: Specialist Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Location: Shanghai

Role GCF: 3

ABOUT AMGEN

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the worlds toughest diseases and make peoples 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 whats known today.

About the Role

We are looking for a Junior AWS Cloud Engineer (35 years experience) to support daily cloud operations basic automation and security remediation across Amgens AWS environments.
This role focuses on monitoring troubleshooting patching and improving cloud operations while learning and contributing to Infrastructure as Code and AIassisted operations.

You will work closely with senior engineers to ensure stable secure and costefficient cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Operations

Perform daily monitoring health checks and basic troubleshooting of AWS resources.
Support common AWS services: EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM.
Handle incident tickets assist with P1/P2 issues under guidance.
Support patching backup/restore and DR drills.
Maintain operational runbooks and documentation.

Vulnerability & Security Remediation

Work on findings from Qualys Wiz and ServiceNow.
Apply patches configuration updates and validate remediation.
Follow internal security processes and SLAs.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Maintain and update existing Terraform / CloudFormation modules.
Write simple automation scripts in Python or Bash.
Support CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins or CodePipeline).

Monitoring & Optimization

Assist in configuring CloudWatch Dynatrace or logging tools.
Participate in performance tuning and cost optimization activities.

AIAssisted Operations (Learning & Support)

Use AI tools for troubleshooting runbook generation and incident summarization.
Assist senior engineers in implementing AIOps workflows (anomaly detection automation).

Collaboration

Work closely with SRE DevOps and application teams.
Follow GitOps and engineering best practices.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT or related field.
35 years handson experience with AWS.
Good understanding of:
- AWS services: EC2 S3 VPC IAM RDS Lambda
- Linux/Windows administration
- Scripting in Python or Bash
- Networking basics (VPC subnets routing security groups)
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions Jenkins CodePipeline)

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
Basic knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS).
Exposure to cloud security tools (Security Hub GuardDuty).
Understanding of AI/ML services or AIOps concepts.
AWS certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate).

Soft Skills

Strong willingness to learn and grow.
Good English communication and documentation habits.
Ability to work in a fastpaced cloud environment.

Required Experience:

Career CategoryInformation SystemsJob DescriptionAWS Cloud Engineer (Junior) Operations & AutomationWorkday Job Profile: Specialist Software EngineerDepartment: TechnologyLocation: ShanghaiRole GCF: 3ABOUT AMGENAmgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the worlds toughest diseases...