DevOps Engineer

Overview

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 DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, building, maintaining, analyzing, and optimizing infrastructure and deployment pipelines to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing applications. This role focuses on automating processes, improving system reliability, and enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to support business objectives. The position involves working with complex systems and environments, supporting and executing infrastructure governance initiatives, and implementing monitoring and observability solutions to ensure systems are accessible, reliable, and efficiently managed. The ideal candidate must have strong Python skills to support automation, deployment, and infrastructure management activities, experience with cloud and automation technologies, and a deep understanding of infrastructure architecture and CI/CD processes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Monitor system performance, reliability, and availability, implementing proactive measures to prevent outages and maintains respective KPIs.
• Support and execute infrastructure governance, security, and compliance initiatives.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline release cycles and improve system resilience.
• Analyze system logs, metrics, and performance data to identify optimization opportunities.
• Implement containerization and orchestration solutions to improve scalability and portability.
• Ensure proper documentation of systems, processes, and architectural designs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  
  

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master's / Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience
  
  

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of system architecture, networking, and security best practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
  
  

• Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium or Cypress.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and automated security testing.