Principal Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer (SRE) at Amgen, you will play a crucial role in optimizing performance, standardizing processes, and automating critical infrastructure and systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Working towards operational excellence through automation, incident response, and proactive performance tuning, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to establish best practices for service availability, efficiency, and cost control. Your responsibilities will include: - Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Amgen's infrastructure, platforms, and applications by proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and implementing long-term fixes. - Driving the adoption of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline operations, minimize manual interventions, and enhance scalability. - Establishing standardized operational processes, tools, and frameworks across Amgen's technology stack to ensure consistency, maintainability, and best-in-class reliability practices. - Implementing and maintaining comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to detect issues early and ensure rapid incident response. - Partnering with software engineering and IT teams to integrate reliability, performance optimization, and cost-saving strategies throughout the development lifecycle. - Executing capacity planning processes to support future growth, performance, and cost management, and maintaining disaster recovery strategies to ensure system reliability. Basic qualifications required for this role include a Master's degree with 8 to 10 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree with 10 to 14 years of experience, or a Diploma with 14 to 18 years of experience in IT infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, or related fields. Must-have skills for this position: - Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Services - Proficiency in CI/CD (Jenkins/Gitlab), Observability, IAC, Gitops, etc. - Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes) - Strong hands-on experience in SRE tasks and automation using Python/Scripting language - Well-versed with FinOps, Infra-Ops, & Platform Operations - Ability to learn new technologies quickly, strong problem-solving and analytical skills, excellent communication, and teamwork skills - Leadership skills to guide a team of 4 to 5 on technical blockers Good-to-have skills include knowledge of cloud-native technologies, strategies for cost optimization in multi-cloud environments, familiarity with distributed systems, databases, and large-scale system architectures, and a Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering preferred. Soft skills required for this role are the ability to foster a collaborative and innovative work environment, strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and a high degree of initiative and self-motivation.,