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About Amgen
Amgen is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics, with products addressing conditions such as anemia, bone loss, inflammation, and cancer. Industry: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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The Principal IS Unix Architect serves as a principal technical leader for the enterprise Unix and Linux platforms. This role involves leading the end-to-end architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of platforms across on-premises data centers and cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Key responsibilities include driving platform standardization, defining architectural standards for security and compliance, and managing infrastructure as code, automation, and capacity planning. The architect will utilize technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Ansible, Python, Terraform, and Puppet. The position solves complex technical problems regarding operating-system architecture, reliability, and performance for business-critical applications. The architect must also provide technical mentorship to engineers and lead cross-functional collaboration to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions and ensure high availability.
Lead the end-to-end architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of enterprise Unix and Linux platforms.
Drive architecture decisions for platform standardization, scalability, availability, and long-term maintainability.
Architect scalable Unix platforms across on-premises data centers and cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Define architectural standards for OS builds, patching, vulnerability remediation, and regulatory compliance.
Establish best practices for platform engineering, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps.
Drive capacity planning, performance engineering, and technology modernization to reduce technical debt.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers through architecture reviews and complex troubleshooting.
Lead major incident escalation and coordinate technical teams to resolve complex problems and restore services.
What we're looking for
Doctorate degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years relevant experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years relevant experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years relevant experience.
Deep expertise in enterprise Linux architecture, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and Amazon Linux (preferred).
Strong Unix systems design and problem-solving skills to lead major technical initiatives and resolve complex cross-platform incidents (preferred).
Proven track record of designing and supporting large-scale Unix and Linux platforms across physical, virtualized, and cloud environments (preferred).
Advanced automation and scripting expertise using Ansible, Python, Shell/Bash, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD practices (preferred).
Demonstrated proficiency in AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure, virtualization, container platforms, and security controls (preferred).
Proven ability to provide principal-level technical leadership, mentor engineers, and coordinate during major incidents (preferred).
Relevant industry certifications such as RHCE, AWS, Azure, or GCP (good-to-have).
RedHat Linux
VMware
vCenter
vSphere
NSX
Tanzu
Avi Load Balancer
JIRA
Confluence
CAMEO
Model Based Systems Engineering
High Performance Computing
Network Design
Computer Virtualization
BOM
BOE
Systems Engineering
Linux
Red Hat
Python
Ansible
Bash
Shell
Docker
Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift
VMWare
KVM
Hyper-V
Splunk
DNS
BIND
DevSecOps
Agile
Model-based Engineering
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