Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Join our team atAMGENCapability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™ (201–500employees'category)in Portugal in 2024by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over500talented individuals from more than40nationalities, 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. 

Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

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? 

The Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)​ will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable AWS cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, cloud networking, and security. The ideal candidate should have strong AWS knowledge and be capable of writing and maintaining Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments.

The role involves mentoring a team of engineers across multiple functions, including Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and collaborating with Technical Manager setting strategic direction, building and driving operational excellence across the cloud ecosystem.

Let’sdo this.Let’schange the world. In this vital role you will:

1. AWS Infrastructure Design & Implementation

• Architect, implement, and lead highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Build VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, and IAM policies to enforce security standard processes.
• Optimize AWS costs using reserved instances, savings plans, and auto-scaling.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation:
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance Terraform & CloudFormation templates for cloud provisioning.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring using AWS-native tools & scripting.
  • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Cloud Security & Compliance:
  • Enforce standard methodologies in IAM, encryption, and network security.
  • Ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO27001, and NIST standards.
  • Implement AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and WAF for threat detection and response.
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization:
  • Set up AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and logging solutions for proactive monitoring.
  • Implement autoscaling, load balancing, and caching strategies for performance optimization.
  • Solve cloud infrastructure issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Collaboration & DevOps Practices:
  • Work closely with software engineers, SREs, and DevOps teams to support deployments.
  • Maintain GitOps guidelines for cloud infrastructure versioning.
  • Support on-call for high-priority cloud incidents.

2. Mentoring & Strategy

• Mentor a team of cloud engineers and SREs, ensuring technical growth.
• Collaborate in defining and implementing the cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
• 8-12 years of hands-on cloud experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, etc.).
• Expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPN, Route 53).
• Experience with Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, etc.).
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills in cloud networking, storage, and security.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Effective communication and collaboration with multi-functional teams.
• A passion for applying technology to make a real-world impact. 
• bility to work in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment.

Preferred requirements

• Familiarity with Backend development (Node.JS).
• Familiarity with AWS CDK, Ansible, or Packer for cloud automation.
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with HPC, DGX Cloud.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Azure or GCP Cloud Certification.
• Terraform Associate Certification.