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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Senior Associate IS Engineer - Linux/VMWare

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will:

Responsibilities

• Perform administrative and operational support tasks on Unix OS and VMWare platforms.

• Support the Service Owner, peer FTE’s, and managed service provider in the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of the technology service

• Perform operational support as required and systems maintenance in accordance with solutions standard methodologies and Change Management policies.

• Ensure business continuity during critical production issues and ensure the problem management process is followed for root cause, corrective and preventative actions.

• Ability to participate in on-call rotation supporting a 24x7 critical environment

• Consistently deliver results aligned with departmental and program goals.

• Provides performance analysis and tune systems while using software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose problems and factors affecting performance

• Contribute to the design, documentation, and execution of disaster recovery activities and associated tests

• Drive continuous improvement in the IS infrastructure processes as well as platform life cycle management in alignment with regulatory and manufacturing requirements.

• Deliver progress reports and presentations ensuring that management is aware of the current status, progress and future needs.

• 15% Travel may be required.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The engineering professional we seek is a creative thinker with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of engineering experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of engineering experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Educational background in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering

• Experience in running and administering Unix OS, and related services & monitoring systems, vendor certifications preferred

• Basic experience with virtualization technologies for a global enterprise, vendor certifications preferred

• Experience with command-line style management utilities, such as vMA/PowerCLI/bash/Ansible

• Experience in working in an Agile Environment preferred

• Understanding of Linux OS and network tools for solving performance issues

• Experience working with regulations such as SOX, Information Privacy, FDA cGxP controlled environment and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and improve your potential along your career journey

• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act

• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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