Senior Associate DR Engineer - AI & Automation

Amgen; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Disaster Recovery Engineer to lead modernization of the DR program and strengthen business continuity and enterprise resilience.

You will partner with IT, cybersecurity, operations, and global teams to develop recovery strategies, dependency mapping, and AI-enabled processes across the organization.

Based in India, this role offers opportunities to drive cross-functional initiatives and ensure critical services meet recovery objectives while advancing our AI-driven capabilities.

Job description

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients
At Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. Our shared mission--to serve patients living with serious illnesses--drives all that we do.
Since 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas - Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease - we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you'll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.
Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Disaster Recovery Engineer - Operational Resilience & AI Automation

What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will Lead the modernization and continuous improvement of the Disaster Recovery (DR) program while partnering with business stakeholders to strengthen Business Continuity (BC) capabilities and enterprise operational resilience. The Sr. Associate serves as the Disaster Recovery program lead, driving technology recovery planning, recovery strategy, dependency management, AI-enabled modernization, orchestration, telemetry, reusable services, testing, governance, and continuous improvement. The role develops working knowledge of Business Continuity processes and provides initial analysis, triage, coordination, and support for Business Continuity planning activities, escalating complex Business Continuity planning issues to Business Continuity specialists as appropriate.
Provide input and feedback on Global Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services strategy, requirements, standards, procedures, processes, training, templates, tools, metrics, and reporting.
Lead and collaborate with business clients, IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, risk management, and global virtual teams in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Disaster Recovery capabilities and technology recovery strategies, while partnering with Business Continuity stakeholders to ensure alignment between business recovery requirements and technology recovery planning.
Develop working knowledge of Business Continuity (BC) processes and provide initial analysis, triage, coordination, and support for Business Continuity planning activities, including stakeholder engagement, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Business Continuity Plan (BCP) development, dependency mapping, and continuous improvement initiatives. Escalate complex Business Continuity planning issues to Business Continuity specialists while ensuring alignment with Disaster Recovery strategies.
Lead Disaster Recovery (DR) planning activities, including recovery strategy development, dependency analysis, recovery documentation, recovery orchestration, technology recovery coordination, and alignment with critical business services, applications, infrastructure, and recovery objectives.
Lead enterprise dependency mapping across business processes, vendors, suppliers, technology, personnel, facilities, and critical resources to strengthen Disaster Recovery readiness while supporting Business Continuity planning and recovery prioritization.
Lead the use of Agentic AI to modernize Disaster Recovery planning by integrating Business Impact Analysis (BIA), critical business data, application dependencies, and recovery priorities to improve technology recovery planning and operational resilience.
Lead the development and continuous improvement of AI-enabled Disaster Recovery plan generation and maintenance, ensuring recovery documentation remains current, resilient, and aligned to business priorities while supporting synchronization with Business Continuity plans.
Lead identification and visibility of Key Computerized Systems (KCSs) and Critical Systems to improve Disaster Recovery prioritization while supporting Business Continuity planning and resilience activities.
Lead continuous analysis of critical business services, KCSs, supporting technologies, and infrastructure to identify recovery gaps, technology risks, and impacts to Disaster Recovery plans while communicating business impacts and recovery considerations to Business Continuity stakeholders.
Lead governance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of AI-enabled Disaster Recovery workflows, ensuring appropriate fallback, override, recovery, and escalation mechanisms are incorporated while supporting Business Continuity requirements and operational resilience objectives.
Lead engineering efforts to optimize and modernize Disaster Recovery exercises / testing, coordinating cross