Specialist IS Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Role Description:

The Cloud Lead will own and manage the cloud infrastructure supporting Amgen’s AI/ML Innovation Lab.

This position will ensure that all environments—development, testing, and production—are secure, compliant, and scalable.

This role combines technical cloud expertise with strong governance and compliance oversight, enabling seamless collaboration between Amgen’s internal IT teams and delivery engineers.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the cloud governance and provisioning for AI/ML lab environments hosted on AWS.
• Define and enforce cloud security, access control, and compliance policies (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Collaborate with Amgen’s enterprise IT to align infrastructure with corporate standards.
• Automate environment provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Enable CI/CD, containerization, and MLOps pipelines in collaboration with vendor team.
• Monitor system performance, cost efficiency, and reliability across projects.
• Manage network configurations, VPN access, and IAM roles for lab participants.
• Maintain disaster recovery, backup, and audit readiness documentation.
   

Required Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in Cloud / DevOps / IT Infrastructure roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS (S3, EC2, EKS, Lambda, SageMaker, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Proven experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of network security, identity, and data privacy controls.
• Prior exposure to regulated industries (life sciences, healthcare) preferred.
• Excellent collaboration and documentation skills.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with MLOps, Databricks, or model deployment pipelines.
• Certification in AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid architecture models.
• Knowledge of cost optimization and cloud governance frameworks.

  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 accommodation.

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