Platform Engineer

Working at Abbott

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:

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

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

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

• 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.

• 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 position works out of our St Paul MN location in the ProdTech Medical Device Division.

Core Job responsibilities

As a Platform Engineer in Product Technology you will work closely with the Dev Ops team and other teams inside Product Technology to automate tasks involved in delivering medical device software to the cloud.  This will include building REST services, jobs, workflows, and applications to enable Production Technologies business partner organizations to work faster and more accurately within the controls required by Abbott.  

After some growth we have chosen to do most of our work in C#.  So expertise and experience in C# and dotnet core is a requirement for this role.

In Product Technology we are attempting to automate away manual tasks - as such we are on a journey to discover how to best serve our Business Partners with easy to use self service tools that eliminate complex manual workflows and help everyone make their deadlines.  

As a platform engineer you will 

• Collaborate with users in various departments to identify end-user requirements and specifications

• Design algorithms and flowcharts to create new software programs and systems

• Producing efficient and elegant code based on requirements

• Test and Deploy programs and applications

• Troubleshoot, Debug, Maintain and Improve existing software

• Complete and Assess user feedback to improve software impact and performance

• Observe user feedback to recommend improvements to existing software products

• Develop technical documentation to guide future software development projects

• Partner with other Engineers in resolving problems with software products or company software systems. 

• Apply enterprise security policies and standards when performing all operational duties.

Required Qualifications

• Working knowledge of tools such as Git, GitHub, GitLab, Artifactory, and other similar tooling

• 3 years of software development experience

• Experience with C#/ .NET Core

• Familiarity with system and security design principles of medical device back end software

• Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and primarily DevOps development methodologies

• Working knowledge of tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, and other similar tooling

• Helm Experience

• Understanding of event driven architecture

• Docker/OCI experience (writing images)

• Experience with AI assisted development

• 3 years of Azure experience

• Ability to maintain regular and predictable attendance

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of DevOps experience

• Experience with Terraform in Azure

• Terraform Module experience

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline

• Experience building and deploying services to Kubernetes

• Azure SDK/API experience (we use it a ton)

• Familiarity with basic design pattens in Dotnet (Factory, Strategy etc)

• Nice plus: groovy

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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.

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