Kubernetes Cloud Engineer/DevOps

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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

At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should be empowered to enjoy healthy and happy lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes?

The candidate will be responsible for performing DevOps activities across multiple Cloud Service Providers in eleven global regions. Candidate will establish configuration management, automate infrastructure, implement continuous integration, and apply DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud infrastructure for a medical device SaaS. Candidate will work closely with Business, Software Engineers and Security Engineers to collaborate on a best-in-class healthcare platform for improving the lives of the hundreds of millions living with Diabetes. #software

What You'll Do

• Provide engineering expertise to plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure expressed as code.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for Cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance collaboratively with Software Engineering
• Work collaboratively with InfoSec to ensure that infrastructure is safe and secure against cybersecurity threats including adherence to Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems. Optimize existing development and release processes through automation
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant technical fields.
• 4-8 total years of experience
• At least 2-4 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3) and creating highly automated environments with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with container orchestration services (Kubernetes experience needed)
• Strong foundation of networking and Linux administration and experience with a variety of open-source technologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous exposure to medical devices, biomedical or high technology industry.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
  
  

Apply Now

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.

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The base pay for this position is $85,300.00 – $170,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.