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Amgen Sr Associate System Administrator in Juncos, Puerto Rico
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
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.
Senior Associate Systems Administrator
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will collaborate with the Corporate VMware and Unix team to innovate and build significant business impact through the strategic planning and maintenance of the DTI infrastructure across AML site.
The Sr. Associate System Administrator is responsible for the VMware and Unix infrastructure and for leading the client relationship activities and meet the business needs, ensuring cost effectiveness, compliance, reliability, and resilience.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Perform administrative and operational support tasks on Unix OS and VMWare platforms.
Support the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of the technology services.
Perform operational support systems maintenance in accordance with solutions standard methodologies and Change Management policies.
Ensure business continuity during critical production issues and ensure the problem management process is followed for root cause, corrective and preventative actions.
Participate in On-Call rotation supporting a 24x7 critical environment.
Consistently deliver results aligned with departmental and program goals.
Provides performance analysis and tune systems while using software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose problems and factors affecting performance.
Contribute to the design, documentation, and execution of disaster recovery activities and associated tests
Drive continuous improvement in the IS infrastructure processes as well as platform life cycle management in alignment with regulatory and manufacturing requirements.
Deliver progress reports and presentations ensuring that management is aware of the current status, progress and future needs.
15% Travel may be required.
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Sr Associate Systems Administrator professional we seek is an individual contributor with these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Master’s degree
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of information systems experience
Or
Associate’s degree and 6 years of information systems experience
Or
High school diploma / GED and 8 years of information systems experience
Preferred Qualifications
Educational background in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Science and/or Engineering.
Experience in running and administering VMWare, Unix OS, and related services & monitoring systems, vendor certifications preferred
Basic experience with virtualization technologies for a global enterprise, vendor certifications preferred.
Experience with command-line style management utilities, such as vMA/PowerCLI/bash/Ansible
Availability to participate in on-call rotation supporting a 24x7 agile environment.
Understanding of Linux OS and network tools for solving performance issues
Experience working with regulations such as SOX, Information Privacy, FDA cGxP controlled environment and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
Thrive
Some of the vast rewards of working here
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.
Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and improve your potential along your career journey
A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor
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for a career that defies imagination
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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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