Cloud Security Associate Engineer

Amgen, Inc.; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading biopharmaceutical company is seeking a Cloud Security Associate Engineer in Lisbon. This role involves designing and maintaining cloud security solutions, assessing risks, and developing documentation. Candidates should have strong AWS knowledge, security foundations understanding, and ideally an AWS Certification. Competitive rewards and career development resources are offered.

Serviços

Career development resources

Diverse and inclusive community

Generous Total Rewards Plan

Qualificações

• Strong command of security foundations and good working knowledge of cryptography.
• Experience with Amazon AWS and understanding of security domains for Cloud.
• AWS Certified Professional or higher preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Continuously assess cloud configurations using compliance tools.
• Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments for new cloud solutions.
• Develop and maintain IaC templates and cloud security documentation.

Conhecimentos

Security foundations

Cryptography

AWS Cloud Services

Team collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Formação académica

High School diploma or GED (Bachelor's preferred)

Ferramentas

Amazon AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

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.

The Amgen Capability Center Portugal will be temporarily located at the Maleo – Saldanha, Av. da República 18, 1050-191 Lisbon. We’re already gearing up to have our brand‑new permanent office ready in the vibrant city centre of Lisbon by the spring of 2022.

Cloud Security Associate Engineer

LIVE

What you will do

Amgen is seeking a Cloud Security 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.

As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will be providing remediation strategies, and executing project activities to complete tactical objectives. You will play a key role in designing, deploying, and maintaining solutions, automating security assessments, audits, policy and standard enforcements, and more.

• Continuously assess cloud configurations using automated compliance and vulnerability management tools to identify misconfigurations and security risks.
• Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments for new cloud solutions and emerging services, ensuring alignment with organisational 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 centralised SIEM platforms for threat detection and analysis.
• This position requires after‑hours responsibilities and may require some travel.

WIN

What we expect of you

• Strong command of security foundations, e.g. authentication, authorisation, 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’s degree in a related field).
• Ideally +/- 2 years of Information Security or Information Technology experience.

SOME OF THE VAST REWARDS OF WORKING HERE

• Full support and career‑development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise and maximise your potential along your career journey.
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan – comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance and career benefits – with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor.

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.