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.
Senior Manager Information Systems - Cloud
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will spearhead a dedicated team of managers and engineers across Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Your mission: to ensure Amgen cloud-based services are reliable, scalable, and secure, with a strong emphasis on AWS. You'll set strategic direction, inspire excellence, and drive operational success across our cloud ecosystem. This role demands the ability to drive and deliver against key organizational critical initiatives, develop a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure. Join us and be at the forefront of cloud innovation! Please note, this is an onsite role based in Hyderabad.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy
Manage and develop a team of cloud engineers, managers and SREs, ensuring dedication and career growth.
Define and implement the cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Establish operational metrics, SLAs, and governance models for cloud environments.
Cloud Engineering & Operations
Oversee the design, deployment, and management of AWS-based Amgen cloud platform.
Ensure the availability, performance, and security of cloud services through automation and standard methodologies.
Implement cost optimization strategies and lead cloud budgets effectively.
Site Reliability & Automation
Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
Lead incident response and root cause analysis to minimize downtime and improve resiliency.
Develop and enforce observability and monitoring strategies across Amgen cloud platform
Security & Compliance
Ensure cloud environments are aligned with industry standards
Work closely with security teams to implement IAM, encryption, and compliance standard methodologies.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
Collaborate with engineering, security, and business teams to define cloud requirements.
Be a great partner with cloud service providers and third-party vendors to ensure optimal service delivery.
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.
Basic Qualifications:
Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 3 years in management OR
Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 4 years in management OR
Diploma and 14 to 18 years of experience in cloud operations, with at least 5 years in management OR
Proven experience in leading mangers, handling cloud-based teams and operations at scale.
Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, EKS, IAM, VPC, etc.).
Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
Experience in SRE principles including observability, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native application deployment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with multi-cloud (Azure, GCP) environments.
Hands-on experience withFinOps for cost management.
Exposure to Kubernetes (EKS) and service mesh architectures.
Familiarity with AI-driven cloud automation and predictive monitoring.
Familiarity with HPC, DGX Cloud.
Professional Certifications:
ITIL or PMP Certification (for cloud governance & project management) (preferred)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)
Soft Skills:
Critical thinking and planning
Strong decision-making abilities
Excellence in collaborator management
Outstanding communication skills
Team building and development
Organizational change expertise
Crisis management capabilities
Strong presentation and public speaking skills
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.
for a career that defies imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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 accommodation.