Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS

Amgen; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS in Hyderabad to design, develop, and support cloud-native operations. You will work with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Automation, and SRE teams to build scalable, secure platforms and improve developer experience.

You will own design of AI-driven cloud solutions, manage cloud platforms, and implement IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD, while emphasizing security-first governance and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher with 6–8 years in cloud operations or Bachelor’s with 8–10 years, or Diploma with 10–12 years in AWS cloud engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, SCPs, RDS, Lambda, Control Tower, Landing Zone, R53, EKS, IAM, VPC).
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Experience in SRE principles including observability, MTTR, SLIs/SLOs, incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI/GenAI-powered cloud solutions leveraging intelligent agents and workflows.
• Build, manage, and support cloud platforms ensuring security, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automation, observability, and AIOps to improve reliability and engineering productivity.
• Troubleshoot production issues, support incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis to improve stability.
• Collaborate with security to implement IAM, encryption, governance, and compliance controls.
• Contribute to cloud modernization and continuous improvement initiatives using best practices.
• Support AWS FinOps activities including cost optimisation and budgeting inputs.
• Ensure cloud platforms meet enterprise standards for security and operational excellence.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

IaC automation

Security & IAM controls

SRE & Observability

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Diploma in related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Career Category Information Systems Job Description

ABOUT AMGEN: Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases and make people’s lives easier, fuller, and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting edge of innovation.

Job Description Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS

In this role as a Specialist Cloud Engineer – AWS at Amgen, you will design, develop, and support cloud-native operations and solutions that enable scalable, reliable, and secure cloud platforms. You will work closely with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to build innovative solutions, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the developer and user experience across Amgen's cloud ecosystem.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI/GenAI-powered cloud solutions, leveraging intelligent agents and workflow automation to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes.
• Build, manage, and support cloud platforms and services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automation, observability, and AIOps capabilities to improve platform reliability, monitoring, and engineering productivity.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, support incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis to enhance service stability.
• Work closely with security and engineering teams to implement IAM, encryption, governance, and compliance controls with a security-first mindset.
• Contribute to cloud modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives by applying operations/engineering best practices, automation, and technical problem-solving.
• Support AWS FinOps activities, including cost optimisation, resource utilisation reviews, budgeting inputs, forecasting support, and cloud spend visibility.
• Ensure cloud platforms comply with enterprise standards for security, risk controls, reliability, and operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree and 6 to 8 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 3 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 4 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering
• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 5 years of hands-on technical ownership in AWS cloud engineering
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, SCPs, RDS, Lambda, Control Tower, Landing Zone, R53, EKS, IAM, VPC, etc.). Expertise in implementing solution for cloud operations work leveraging AI, Agents, Workflows etc..
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
• Experience in SRE principles including observability, MTTR, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native application deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in building and operating large-scale AWS platforms, with expertise in AI and agent-based solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Agent Core, and modern cloud automation frameworks.
• Strong experience implementing enterprise cloud solutions, with hands-on expertise in cloud security, compliance controls, risk controls, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Proven expertise in building automation, monitoring, observability, and AIOps solutions within AWS environments to drive platform reliability, reduce operational toil, and accelerate engineering delivery.
• Strong understanding of AWS FinOps principles and cloud financial optimisation practices, including cost analysis, budgeting inputs, forecasting support, chargeback/show back models, and cloud spend visibility.
• Strong experience supporting and operating enterprise-scale AWS and GCP environments, with deep technical expertise in AWS cloud services, architecture, security, automation, and operational best practices.

Professional Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)

Soft Skills

• Critical thinking and technical analysis
• Strong technical judgement and problem-solving abilities
• Excellence in cross functional collaboration
• Outstanding communication skills
• Ability to support incident response and high-priority technical issue resolution
• Clear technical communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Shift Information

This is an onsite position requiring flexibility to support a global operating model. The successful candidate must be willing to work outside standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and on-call shifts, as required to support 24x7 cloud operations and critical business priorities.

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen