What are the responsibilities and job description for the VMWare Administrator position at Amgen?
Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients
At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.
Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.
Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
VMWare Administrator
Looking for Amazing Local Talent for Our New Manufacturing Facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina!
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will drive overall program success by applying technical skills, partnering with business and technology leaders to ensure comprehensive alignment, and finding optimized ways to deliver efficiency solutions for our partners.
The Sr. Associate IS Engineer will join the Operations and Enterprise Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI) team to support the North Carolina site as the local representative of the Global Infrastructure Services (GIS) 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. You will be responsible for VMWare configuration and operations management, along with daily systems management tasks in a complex environment.
Responsibilities :
Perform advanced monitoring, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of virtualization technologies, including VMWare, ESX, Nutanix, Dell VXrail and VMWare vSAN.
Responsible for ongoing management of the VMWare infrastructure.
Performs necessary systems maintenance in accordance with VMWare standard methodologies and company change management policies.
Participate in Root Cause Analysis reviews when applicable.
Rotational 24x7 On-Call Support
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
Support IT projects to validate alignment with our strategic goals and technical standards
Support a patching schedule for the OS and firmware
Monitor security bulletins to obtain information of potential threats; analyze and lead vital security patch implementations to ensure ongoing system security
Use software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose sophisticated problems and factors affecting performance
Operate server automation solutions and enterprise-wide scripts using tools
Provide performance analysis and tune systems. utilize software and hardware tools to identify, analyze, and diagnose complex problems and factors affecting performance.
Utilize capacity planning tools
Follow IT processes and change management practices
Identify and improve existing departmental processes for efficiency, reliability and consistency
Contribute in designing, documenting, and fruition of disaster recovery activities and associated tests
Support audit and security compliance issues (Amgen & government regulations)
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 :
Master’s degree
Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems and VMWare server administration experience
Associate’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems and VMWare server administration experience
High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Information Systems and VMWare server administration experience
Preferred Qualifications :
Industry Certifications and experience with VMWare server administration
Experience managing and administering VMWare systems, Nutanix, and related services
Scripting and ITIL experience and managing regulated systems
Basic understanding of common Wintel and Linux server operating systems
Basic understanding of Clustering and HA configurations
Excellent data-driven problem solving and analytical skills
Experience configuring VMware HA and DRS, VMware ESX / ESXi, VMware Virtual Center vSphere
Daily Support of tools and functions for virtual infrastructure support (VMware HA, monitoring, etc)
Solid grasp of TCP / IP networking fundamentals
Experience with command-line style management utilities, such as vMA / PowerCLI / Perl / etc.
What you can expect from us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include :
A 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
Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
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Application deadline
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
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 and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
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, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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 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.
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.
