Site Reliability Engineer III (Kubernetes, Terraform, Multi-Cloud) — Amgen · Hyderabad

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer III for Amgen's biopharmaceutical digital platforms in Hyderabad — ensure reliability of regulated, life-sciences systems using Kubernetes, Terraform and multi-cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), with SLO-driven reliability engineering and GxP-grade compliance.

About this role and the team at Amgen. Senior Site Reliability Engineer III for Amgen's biopharmaceutical digital platforms in Hyderabad — ensure reliability of regulated, life-sciences systems using Kubernetes, Terraform and multi-cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), with SLO-driven reliability engineering and GxP-grade compliance. This listing on cloudsoftsol.com is curated for engineers in India who are actively interviewing for senior cloud, DevOps, SRE and platform-engineering roles. If you are seeking a multi-year career platform rather than a stop-gap, this listing rewards depth — read the responsibilities and requirements below carefully and tailor your application to the specifics. We do not charge candidates a fee for placement assistance; companies sponsor our involvement.

Responsibilities

Build and operate highly-available systems with Kubernetes and Docker for Amgen's biopharmaceutical digital platforms — services that support research, manufacturing and commercial functions where reliability and data integrity carry regulatory weight. Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP), authoring reusable, validated modules so that teams can stand up compliant environments from a single template. Establish observability and proactive reliability engineering — Prometheus / Grafana and cloud-native monitoring, meaningful SLIs and SLOs, alerting tuned so that patient- or quality-impacting incidents escalate within minutes while noise is suppressed. Own incident management end to end: on-call rotation, rapid triage, blameless post-incident reviews, and automation of remediation so recurring issues are engineered away rather than re-fought. Ensure security, compliance and performance in a regulated environment — GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP-5 and comparable frameworks — producing the change records, validation artefacts and audit trails that survive inspection, and treating documentation as code wherever possible. Drive disaster-recovery and business-continuity engineering: multi-region failover, tested point-in-time restore, and resilience patterns proven through regular game-days rather than assumed. Collaborate on cloud migrations and modern-architecture adoption — moving legacy workloads to cloud-native, containerised designs without compromising the validated state that regulated systems require. Reduce toil through automation and self-service tooling, and partner with development and quality teams to shift reliability and compliance left into design and CI. Mentor SREs and graduate engineers, run knowledge-sharing sessions on Kubernetes, Terraform and reliability practice, and represent the Hyderabad SRE team in global architecture and reliability forums.

Requirements & qualifications

6+ years in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps with strong, hands-on production Kubernetes and container (Docker) experience. Terraform across at least one — ideally two or three — of AWS, Azure and GCP: reusable modules, remote state per environment, plan reviews for cost and security. Observability and SRE fundamentals: Prometheus / Grafana (or cloud-native equivalents), SLIs / SLOs, error budgets, on-call discipline, and blameless post-mortems. Strong scripting / programming, Python preferred, for reliability tooling and automation. Working understanding of regulated software environments — GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP-5, SOX or HIPAA — and the validation and change-control implications they bring. Disaster-recovery and high-availability design experience (multi-region, failover, tested restores). Excellent written communication — you will author change records and validation artefacts read by auditors and regulators. Life-sciences / pharma or other regulated-industry experience is a strong plus. Bachelor's or higher in CS / Engineering or a numerate science; cloud and Kubernetes certifications valued.

Why this role in 2026

Amgen is a leading global biotechnology company, and its Hyderabad capability centre is one of its principal engineering hubs. A Senior SRE III seat here is a rare blend — multi-cloud Kubernetes and Terraform reliability engineering combined with GxP-grade regulated-software discipline — a combination that is scarce in the market and tends to leverage into senior platform or SRE-leadership roles in life sciences or pharma-tech within a few years.

Application tips

Apply directly via the Amgen careers portal link below. Lead with concrete reliability outcomes (availability, MTTR, error-budget adherence) and multi-cloud Terraform scope, and make any GxP / validated-environment experience prominent — auditors, change records, IQ/OQ/PQ artefacts — even if your current role labels it differently. A polished follow-up to the recruiter on LinkedIn once your application is in helps.

Interview preparation

Expect five rounds: recruiter screen, a Python + Kubernetes + cloud technical screen, a deeper technical loop (Terraform / system design + an incident or reliability scenario), a Quality / Regulatory partner round on validation discipline, and a values round with a leader. Practice STAR stories around incidents you owned end to end, audit findings you closed, and disaster-recovery exercises you ran; brush up on SLO design, multi-region failover and GxP change-control basics.

Career growth

Inside Amgen: SRE III → Senior / Principal SRE → SRE Manager or Platform Architect. Engineers also rotate into the Manufacturing IT, Clinical Data Sciences or security-engineering platform teams. Regulated multi-cloud SRE experience is a strong differentiator across life sciences and beyond.