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Senior Associate Data Security Engineer

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JOB ID: R-214891 LOCATION: Portugal - Lisbon WORK LOCATION TYPE: Flex Commuter / Hybrid DATE POSTED: May. 14, 2025 CATEGORY: Information Systems

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

The Amgen Capability Center in Lisbon, Portugal (ACCP) will be home to over 300 multi-national and multi-cultural employees, representing a broad range of cross functional capabilities, including Commercial, General and Administrative, Research and Development and more. The ACCP will offer rich career growth and development opportunities, regional and global exposure, and the opportunity to LIVE, WIN and THRIVE in one of Europe’s most attractive cities.  

Our ACCP Office is located at Maleo – Sete Rios, Av. José Malhoa 19, 1070-040 Lisbon, in the vibrant city center of Lisbon.

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that read over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Senior Associate Data Security Engineer

LIVE

What you will do

We are searching for aSenior Associate Data Security Engineer covering Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) technologies. This role will report to the Manager, Data Security. This position willprovide essential services that enable us to better pursue our mission.

Sr. Data Security Engineers operate, manage, and improve Amgen’s DLP and DSPM solutions. In our Data Security team, they will operate data protection security technologies in a rapidly changing global security sector. They will work with other engineers and business units to help craft, build, coordinate, configure, and implement critical preventive and detective security controls related to the protection of Amgen data.

This engineer will play a key role in designing, deploying, and maintaining solutions to build our rapidly growing operations.

Areas of responsibility include:

  • Maintain the service delivery and working order of Amgen data security solutions across Amgen’s global enterprise

  • Execute Amgen service management processes such as Incident Management, change processes, and service improvements for Amgen’s data security technologies

  • Assist in the design and improvement of Amgen’s data security technologies and solutions. Build scripts for the configuration and the testing of the solution

  • Manage and perform analysis of escalated DLP events, engage with the business, fulfill legal hold requests, and provide executive reporting

  • Work with business domain specialists to collect, analyze, build, tune and automate DLP policy sets

  • Analyze events and logs for suspicious activity and opportunities to improve posture, processes, procedures, and protections.

  • Consult to the Incident Response team on investigations

  • Develop automation solutions in increase response times and reduce risk of identified incidents

  • Participate in regular meetings and conference calls with the client, IT, business partners and vendors to help ensure technical coverage for new or existing projects across the business

WIN

What we expect of you

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of Cloud Access Security Platforms (Elastica, Netskope, SkyHigh,etc)

  • Understanding of cloud and SAAS environments (AWS, O365, Box, Salesforce, etc)

  • Solid experience with potential to grow knowledge in Linux/Windows OS and other infrastructure systems

  • Experience with DLP and Endpoint Technologies for a large global enterprise

  • Demonstrated understanding on how emerging security technologies and data flows interoperate across complex, multi-cloud systems.

  • Comfort with scripting (PowerShell, Python, etc) and expression development (SQL, Regex)

  • Ability to develop documentation for Infrastructure Security implementations

  • Basic experience with ITIL processes such as Incident, Problem, and configuration management

  • Experience in complex enterprise environments with competing business priorities

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

  • Effective working with global, virtual teams in a collaborative setting, placing priority on the successful completion of team goals

  • Self-starter with a high degree of initiative and the ability to optimally manage multiple priorities

Basic Qualifications:

  • Doctorate degree

Or

  • Master's degree and 2 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience

Or

  • Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience

Or

  • Associate's degree and 10 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience

Or

  • High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience

Preferred Certifications:

  • Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) or Security+

  • SANS Certifications

THRIVE

What you can expect of us

  • Vast opportunities to learn, develop, and move up and across our global organization.
  • Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where colleagues are empowered to bring ideas to the table, take risks, and act.
  • Generous Amgen Total Rewards Plan comprising healthcare, finance, wealth and career benefits.
  • Flexible work arrangements.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a 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 an accommodation.

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