Vmware Engineer (Columbus, Oh)

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.

VMWare Engineer

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will report directly to the Director of Information Systems and support the Ohio site as the local representative of the Global Infrastructure Services team. This role will include the main responsibility for all activities related to VMWare/ESX administration in a 24x7 regulated environment, while working on virtualization servers and related technologies that will be introduced into the Amgen environment.

• Apply capacity planning tools
• Monitor security bulletins to obtain information of potential threats; analyze and lead vital security patch implementations to ensure ongoing system security
• Support IT projects to validate alignment with our strategic goals and technical standards
• Contribute in designing, documenting, and fruition of disaster recovery activities and associated tests
• Follow IT processes and change management practices
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis reviews when applicable.
• Perform advanced monitoring, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of virtualization technologies, including VMWare, ESX, Nutanix, Dell VXrail and Vmare vSAN.
• Use software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose sophisticated problems and factors affecting performance
• Provide performance analysis and tune systems. utilize software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose complex problems and factors affecting performance.
• Identify and improve existing departmental processes for efficiency, reliability and consistency
• Contribute to the review/approval of virtual server design decisions to ensure that application hosting solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reliability upon deployment
• Responsible for ongoing management of the VMWare infrastructure.
• Rotational 24x7 On-Call Support
• Support a patching schedule for the OS and firmware
• Support audit and security compliance issues (Amgen & government regulations)
• Operate server automation solutions and enterprise-wide scripts using tools
• Performs vital systems maintenance in accordance with VMWare standard methodologies and company change management policies.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The engineering professional we seek is a mid level engineer with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of engineering experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 6 years of engineering experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of common Wintel and Linux server operating systems
• Industry Certifications and experience with VMWare server administration
• Grasp of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• Excellent data-driven problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience configuring VMware HA and DRS, VMware ESX/ESXi, VMware Virtual Center vSphere
• Support of tools and functions for virtual infrastructure support (VMware HA, monitoring, etc)
• Experience leading and coordinating VMWare systems, Nutanix, and related services
• Scripting and ITIL experience and leading regulated systems
• Command-line style management utilities, such as vMA/PowerCLI/Perl/etc
• Understanding of Clustering and HA configurations

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.

$80,632-100,066 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:

• Stock-based long-term incentives
• 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.
• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

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If 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 cancers, 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.
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