Principal Cloud Security Architect
AmgenAbout the role
Career Category
Information SystemsJob Description
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
Principal Cloud Security Architect
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will report to the Director Global Cloud Security leader in our Cybersecurity and Digital Trust (CDT) organization and will be based in Tampa, FL, at Amgen’s Capability Center. At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Our new Tampa Capability Center provides essential services that enable us to better pursue this mission. This state-of-the art center serves as a base for finance, information systems, and human resources professionals to make a meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies.
This position will be responsible for shaping compliance and security of Amgen's modern business workloads in the cloud globally. The principal architect will play the lead role in designing, deploying and maintaining security solutions, automation, audits, policy and standard enforcements.
Job Responsibilities
- Accountable as the Cloud Security Domain architect to establish domain reference architecture mapping security capabilities, process and technology
- Continuously assesses cloud security risk and threat landscape, identifies security control gaps and develops business technology strategies that materially addresses risk and reinforce departmental investments
- Manages and maintains current architectural plans, engineering blueprints and CDT reference architecture in system of record
- Directly responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining reusable architectural security design patterns that protect Amgen business systems
- Accountable for leading, supporting, designing, developing, testing, integrating and deploying security technologies and or capabilities including but not limited to Cloud Security Posture Management, Cloud Workload Protection, Web Application Protection, Data Security Posture Management, etc…
- Responsible for leading the development and publication of Security Configuration Baseline (SCB) standards related to cloud operations
- Counsel project teams, application owners, and other Information Security teams on information security controls, policies, standards and benchmarks
- Serves as a functional collaborator with the Enterprise Architecture team to assess system designs and functionality against existing reusable patterns under the provisions of Amgen City Plan program
- Establish and maintain approved security patterns, methods and reusable elements to expedite solutions attestation and approval throughout SDLC
- Collaborate multi-functionally with analysts, engineers, data scientists to deliver continuous improvement in cloud security, compliance and resilience.
- This is a hybrid flexible commuter position into the Tampa, FL office, once or twice per week. Domestic and International travel up to 10%.
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Cloud Security professional we seek is a problem solver with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of Cyber Security Architecture experience
Or
Master’s degree and 4 year of Cyber Security Architecture experience
Or
Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Cyber Security Architecture experience
Or
Associate’s degree and 10 years of Cyber Security Architecture experience
Or
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Cyber Security Architecture experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 years or more experience supporting cloud automation, development, testing and deployment of cloud based (AWS, GCP, and Azure) infrastructure and applications
- Advanced understanding of Identity and Access Management, Data Security, DevSecOps, Logging, and other security domains for cloud security
- Working/Emerging knowledge of Enterprise Cloud Solutions across IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. This may include: AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, Mulesoft, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, Box, etc.
- Emerging Knowledge of Identity Governance, Cloud SOC/SIEM, Key Management & Encryption, Public, Private and Hybrid cloud solutions.
- Good hand-on experience with AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration
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