Specialist Data Center Engineer

Career Category
Information Systems
Job Description
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFYIMAGINATION?
You've worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? 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, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Specialist IS DataCenterEngineer
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What you will do
Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will be part of the Data Center Operations team within the Global Infrastructure Services organization. The selected candidate will be responsible for leading the physical and logistical layout of resources and equipment within our enterprise Data Center facilities, delivering regional support of enterprise Data Center operations and physical infrastructure within Amgen's Thousand Oaks campus. The Specialist IS Engineer will report to the Principal IS Analyst and will be based out of Thousand Oaks, California.
The Data Center Engineer role has sophisticated responsibilities including managing cable pathways, space, power, and cooling requirements. They fulfill a meaningful role in Data Center capacity planning and must also manage business continuity and disaster recovery plans. The Engineer role will provide regional oversight of the team within our Thousand Oaks campus. Data Center Operations is the enterprise group that handles the physical hosting infrastructure and provides support to private and public cloud hosting options, compute, storage, hyper-converged, and backup systems. The Engineer provides operational oversight of critically important infrastructure and security that requires 24x7 uptime and meets compliance requirements.

• Provides guidance to the Service Owner, IS Architects, full-time employees, and third-party service providers on the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of regional operations
• Ensures service is aligned with the key principles of service ownership which include meeting the needs of the business, cost-effectiveness, scalability, compliance, reliability, and resilience.
• Implements infrastructure architecture standards in accordance with industry best practices and ensures alignment to standards throughout the project completion.
• Responsible for driving the completion of substantial projects, programs, and strategies by working with appropriate internal technical professionals.
• Validates alignment with industry standard methodologies, current Sensible building offerings, and construction methods of substructure distribution supporting complex networking environments.
• Develops and maintains functional relationships across multidisciplinary teams to anticipate future physical infrastructure requirements.
• Provides representation and technical interface to key internal partner organizations including virtualization, network, storage, computing, facilities, and engineering.
• Contributes to Capacity Planning, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery Planning.
• ITIL process planning.

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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will have these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree
OR
Master's degree and 3 years of Data Center operations experience
Or
Bachelor's degree and 5 years of Data Center operations experience
Or
Associate's degree and 10 years of Data Center operations experience
Or
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Data Center operations experience
Preferred Qualifications:

• Five plus years of experience in Data Centers, with at least 5 years supporting enterprise environments!
• Technical expertise in IS architecture, including scalable fiber optic networks
• Implementing and managing physical infrastructure for large enterprises!
• Maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant, redundant Data Center infrastructure.
• Experience crafting hierarchical diagrams, maintaining fiber optic rings, and structured cabling.
• Managing sophisticated physical architectures within highly regulated environments!
• Experience with multiple data transport methods such as Single Mode and Multi-Mode Fiber Optics, Copper, Wi-Fi, and Cellular (3G, 4G LTE, and 5G).
• Experience designing multi-segmented networks is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of compliance standards and requirements.

Thrive
What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates' professional and personal growth and well-being.
The annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is provided below.
$109,459-132,557 usd
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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Salary Range
109,459.00 USD - 132,557.00 USD