Cloud Security Associate Engineer

Join our team at AMGEN Capability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™(201–500 employees' category) in Portugal in 2024 by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over 500talented individuals from more than 40 nationalities, our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation, excellence, and inspiration. This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation, supporting our mission To Serve Patients. 

Cloud Security Associate Engineer

At AMGEN, Technology isn’t just a support function—it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines.Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters?

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What you will do

Amgen is seeking a Cloud Security Associate Engineer to join Amgen’s Cloud Security organization who will be reporting into the Global Information Protection Organization in Amgen and will be based in Lisbon, PRT, at Amgen’s new Capability Center.

• Continuously assess cloud configurations using automated compliance and vulnerability management tools to identify misconfigurations and security risks.

• Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for new cloud solutions and emerging services, ensuring alignment with organizational risk appetite and compliance standards.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) with embedded security guardrails and policy-as-code enforcement.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational standards for cloud security processes, controls, and procedures.

• Integrate cloud-native logging and monitoring services (e.g., AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Cloud Logging) into centralized SIEM platforms for threat detection and analysis.

• This position requires after hours responsibilities and may require some travel.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a versatile person with these qualifications.

• Strong command of security foundations, e.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 

• Solid understanding of security principles such as the principle of least privilege or economy of mechanism.

• Good working knowledge of cryptography, e.g. key management, symmetric, and asymmetric encryption.

• Experience with Amazon AWS, understanding of Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Secure DevOps, Security Operations, and other security domains for Cloud.

• Hands-on experience using AWS Cloud Services (EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.).

• Working/Emerging knowledge of Enterprise Cloud Solutions across IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. This may include: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, Box, etc.

• Team-oriented, placing priority on successful completion of team goals.

• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• AWS Certified Professional or higher.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum Education required - High School diploma or GED. (Ideally a Bachelor degree on a related career field).

• Ideally +/- 2 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience.