Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS

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. Job Description Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS In this role as a Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS at Amgen, you will design, develop, and support cloud-native operations and solutions that enable scalable, reliable, and secure cloud platforms. You will work closely with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to build innovative solutions, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the developer and user experience across Amgen's cloud ecosystem. Roles & Responsibilities: Cloud Engineering & Operations Design and implement AI/GenAI-powered cloud solutions, leveraging intelligent agents and workflow automation to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes. Build, manage, and support cloud platforms and services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines. Implement automation, observability, and AIOps capabilities to improve platform reliability, monitoring, and engineering productivity. Troubleshoot complex production issues, support incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis to enhance service stability. Work closely with security and engineering teams to implement IAM, encryption, governance, and compliance controls with a security-first mindset. Contribute to cloud modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives by applying operations/engineering best practices, automation, and technical problem-solving. Support AWS FinOps activities, including cost optimisation, resource utilisation reviews, budgeting inputs, forecasting support, and cloud spend visibility. Ensure cloud platforms comply with enterprise standards for security, risk controls, reliability, and operational excellence. Basic Qualifications: Master’s degree and 6 to 8 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 3 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 4 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR Diploma and 10 to 12 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 5 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering OR Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, SCPs, RDS, Lambda, Control Tower, Landing Zone, R53, EKS, IAM, VPC, etc.). Expertise in implementing solution for cloud operations work leveraging AI, Agents, Workflows etc..