Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers – such as glucose, ketones, and lactate – to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

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Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

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Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

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An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

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Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

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A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

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A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The opportunity

This  Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer position works out of our  Alameda, CA ,  location.

Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of enterprise-grade cloud solutions for our web and mobile products. You will be focused on automating the deployment of cloud infrastructure and services to support application development and hosting (architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the underlying logical and physical cloud infrastructure).

             

What you’ll do

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Define standards (and/or select cloud vendor products) for each infrastructure tower in coordination with traditional engineering and network teams

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Develop Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaC) using Terraform modules, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and other Cloud Observability and Monitoring  providers required for software as a service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).

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Design and Implement CI/CD pipelines using Github, Harness and other automation tools for compilation, assembly, deployment and testing of containerized and non-containerized components.

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Partner with developers, security and compliance teams in improving cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit—including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of the cloud infrastructure.

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Responsible for monitoring and observability for critical and non-critical alerts of infrastructure, security, PaaS and Micro Services and participate in the on-call rotation schedule.

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Design, implementation and monitor performance metrics and errors for Application and infrastructure through new relic and Log Analytics alert based rules.

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Develop scripts used for automation of operations and monitoring using Python, PowerShell and Bash. Contribute to technology stack with effective feedback mechanism to improve the product reliability and availability through communication.

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Design and implement novel solutions to automate cloud-environment provisioning

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Collaborate with developers and other technologists in the engineering team to continuously optimize the data residency, storage, processing, archiving and purging with appropriate security controls.

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Responsible for managing capacity across public and private cloud resource pools, including automating scale-down/-up of environments

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Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

Qualifications

·  University degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or similar technical disciplines
·  6+ years of relevant experience in a Cloud/DevOps engineer role, with last 3 years hands-on experience with Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud services.
·  Expertise in infrastructure as code using Terraform (preferred), Cloud Formation, ARM,  Ansible, Chef or Puppet.
·  Experience with configuring, deploying, and operating public cloud services using Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP and experience designing, configuring, deploying and managing both SQL (Postgres) and No-SQL (Mongo DB) database solutions compliant with GDPR, PCI and other compliance standards.
·  Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes
·  Basic familiarity with network features, e.g., cloud network topology, BGP, routing, web (REST) APIs
·  High availability engineering experience (region, availability zone, data replication clustering)
·  Product development in a scaled agile environment with an awareness of DevOps methodologies and ability/mindset to drive rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions
·  Experience in agile development
·  Strong people skills, specifically in collaboration and teamwork

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

     

The base pay for this position is
$95,500.00 – $190,900.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

LNGO Lingo

        

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 2901 Harbor Bay Parkway

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf