Jira Support Engineer II (Remote USA)
- Employer
- Amgen
- Location
- Thousand Oaks, CA
- Start date
- May 25, 2022
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- Discipline
- Information Technology, Applications/Technical Support, Network Administration, Software Development, System Administration
- Required Education
- High School or equivalent
- Position Type
- Full time
- Hotbed
- Biotech Beach, Best Places to Work
Job Details
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
Youve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge youve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.
Jira Support Engineer II (Remote USA)
LiveWhat you will do
Job SummaryWould you like to take your full stack engineering skills and help deliver the world's most advanced and life-changing biotech medicines by building creative and ground-breaking software frameworks? Amgen is using cloud technology, DevSecOps frameworks, and migration and continuous deployment pipelines to create new drug therapies for patients that address grievous illnesses. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer primarily supporting Jira and Confluence with solid focus on customer support to fill a position in Amgen's newly built Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) team. Our small product team is a high-energy, tight-knit group who builds our DevSecOps framework used globally by Amgen development teams.
This position focuses on developing, improving, and supporting the Jira and Confluence services built into our CI/CD framework for all teams across Amgen. Our framework is built using open-source and AWS services, with Jira and Confluence used to handle the agile process integration. Our framework runs custom code development, DataOps, as well as tests and deploys Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications into Amgens cloud environment. We are currently extending our capabilities to integrate serverless and microservices CI/CD pipelines with AWS.
Job responsibilities:- Support client teams configure their Jira workflows, screens, fields, permissions, and boards and solving problems.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills to work with client partners in constructive and positive engagements.
- Experience leading and balancing an effective support team who consult, fix problems, and train users on Jira best practices.
- Work with our scientific and client teams to provide consulting services that help them better implement Jira best practices
- Manage Jira and Confluence hosted in AWS and in Unix-based environment.
- Investigate and solve systems and applications issues, identify runtime deficiencies, find potential failures, and fix production issues.
- Upgrade and patch Jira and Confluence with minimal downtime.
- Be an integral member of the core SRE team and help automate, monitor, deploy, and operate the service 24x7x365 globally.
Doctorate degree
or Masters degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience
or Bachelors degree and 5 years of Information Systems experience
or Associate degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience
or High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experienceMinimum Qualifications:- Minimum of two (2+) years of experience as a Jira and Confluence administrator working on plugins, workflows, and schemes.
- Knowledge of cloud technology on AWS or other cloud technology platforms.
- Knowledge of various Linux environments. Distro's include Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, RedHat, and Amazon Linux. Familiarity with Windows OSs is a plus.
- Application and system level debug and triage experience.
- Knowledge of JQL (Jira Query Language).
- Solid focus on customer support.
- Willingness to learn new technology and keep up with industry standard methodologies.
- Knowledge of a Unix-based environment. Distro's include Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, RedHat, and Amazon Linux.
- Hands-on experience with configuration frameworks for deployment such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience managing distributed runtime applications using programmatic interfaces.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Node.js.
- Hands-on experience with automated monitoring frameworks such as InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf, Prometheus, Fluentd, Kapacitor, etc.
- Familiarity with Agile methodology.
- Willing and able to learn new technology and mentor other specialists.
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.
- Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
- 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
for a career that defies imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
careers.amgen.comJoin UsIf you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Amgen requires all staff in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.Company
We are all different, yet we have this in common: our mission to serve patients. This sense of shared purpose is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. It guides us as we continue to launch new medicines and reach millions of patients worldwide.
We live the mission.
We win together.
We thrive on continual challenge.
Our team of 22,000+ scientists and professionals worldwide bring distinct perspectives and experiences to all we do. We leverage our global talent to achieve together—to research, manufacture and deliver ever-better products and greater depth to our mission.
At Amgen, there is a strong correlation between our high level of diversity and performance. Because addressing issues with a wider range of perspectives and approaches leads to more creative problem-solving. Together, we’re transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health.
Connect with us to explore how you can Win, Live, and Thrive at Amgen.
- Website
- http://careers.amgen.com/
- Phone
- 805-447-1000
- Location
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Corporate Headquarters
One Amgen Center Drive
Thousand Oaks
California
91320-1799
United States
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