Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

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.

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Ansible Engineer to join our dynamic DevOps team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of automation, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code principles, with a strong focus on Ansible. You will work closely with developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to automate infrastructure related processes, improve deployment pipelines, and ensure consistent configurations across multiple environments.

The Infrastructure Automation Engineer will be responsible for developing innovative self-service solutions for our global workforce and further enhancing our self-service automation built using Ansible.

As part of a scaled Agile product delivery team, the Developer works closely with product feature owners, project partners, operational support teams, peer developers and testers to develop solutions to enhance self-service capabilities and solve business problems by identifying requirements, conducting feasibility analysis, proof of concepts and design sessions.

The Developer serves as a domain expert on the design, integration and operability of solutions to support innovation initiatives with business partners and shared services technology teams. Please note, this is an onsite role based in Hyderabad.

• Automating repetitive IT tasks - Collaborate with multi-functional teams to gather requirements and build automation solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and software deployment.
• Configuration Management - Design, implement, and maintain code including Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventories for automating system configurations and deployments and ensuring consistency
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of automated solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to automation scripts, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Perform infrastructure automation assessments, implementations, providing solutions to increase efficiency, repeatability, and consistency.
• DevOps – Facilite continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Orchestration – Coordinating multiple automated tasks across systems
• Develop and maintain clear, reusable, and version-controlled playbooks and scripts.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure using Ansible and terraform automation (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Continuously improve automation workflows and practices to enhance speed, quality, and reliability.
• Ensure that infrastructure automation adheres to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Document and maintain processes, configurations, and changes in the automation infrastructure.
• Participate in design review, client requirements sessions and development teams to deliver features and capabilities supporting automation initiatives
• Collaborate with product owners, partners, testers and other developers to understand, estimate, prioritize and implement solutions
• Design, code, debug, document, deploy and maintain solutions in a highly efficient and effective manner
• Participate in problem analysis, code review, and system design
• Remain current on new technology and apply innovation to improve functionality
• Collaborate closely with partners and team members to configure, improve and maintain current applications
• Work directly with users to resolve support issues within product team responsibilities
• Monitor health, performance and usage of developed solutions

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The [vital attribute] professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 to 4 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience OR
• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of computer science, IT, or related field experience
• Deep hands-on experience with Ansible including playbooks, roles, and modules
• Proven experience as an Ansible Engineer or in a similar automation role
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or other programming languages
• Proficiency expertise in Terraform & CloudFormation for AWS infrastructure automation
• Experience with other configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash), and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Nagios)
• Working in an Agile (SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban) environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh architectures.
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS CDK, Ansible, or Packer for cloud automation.
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
• Experience operating within a validated systems environment (FDA, European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, Ministry of Health, etc.)

Professional Certifications (preferred):

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing with Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Terraform Associate Certification

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment.

Shift Information: This position is an onsite role and may require working during later hours to align with business hours. Candidates must be willing and able to work outside of standard hours as required to meet business needs.

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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