Principal Cloud Engineer

Join an inclusive collaborative Business Technology team as a Principal AWS Engineer in AbbVie BTS. In this hands-on role you will architect build and optimize enterprise-scale AWS solutions directly implementing cloud-native architectures automation and AI-driven enhancements in a global highly regulated environment. Youll lead by exampledelivering robust secure and scalable AWS platformswhile also serving as a technical mentor and strategic leader to accelerate AbbVies digital transformation. 

In this role youll be responsible for: 

• Design and implement complex secure cloud solutions that meet business needs and align with enterprise and functional architecture while documenting technical decisions for clarity and reuse.  

• Lead development of AWS-based applications using Lambda API Gateway and ECS and prototype scalable APIs with a focus on integration security reliability and observability.  

• Build and automate infrastructure as code (IaC) with CloudFormation AWS CDK Terraform and Ansible to deliver reliable repeatable deployments at scale.  

• Design implement and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions CodePipeline) for application and infrastructure delivery integrating automated testing security scanning and policy checks.  

• Implement DevOps best practices using AWS CloudFormation GitHub and Docker codifying environments and promotion workflows across environments.  

• Deploy and operate containerized and serverless workloads (EKS/ECS/Fargate Lambda/Step Functions EventBridge) selecting optimal compute strategies for microservices batch and event-driven architectures.  

• Integrate and leverage AI tools (Amazon Q Claude Datadog AI AWS AI/ML services) to automate operational tasks enhance monitoring enable predictive scaling and streamline incident response.  

• Develop and maintain AI-driven runbooks and workflows for anomaly detection automated remediation and continuous improvement of cloud operations; use AI-powered solutions to identify process improvement opportunities and automate repetitive tasks.  

• Monitor troubleshoot and optimize performance reliability and cost using CloudWatch Datadog Prometheus Grafana ELK and AI-driven observability platforms.  

• Identify design and implement internal process improvements by automating manual processes optimizing data delivery and re-designing infrastructure for scalability and efficiency.  

• Implement and enforce robust security and compliance (IAM KMS Secrets Manager security groups encryption in transit/at rest) aligned to GxP HIPAA GDPR and AbbVie policies; collaborate with security architecture to ensure corporate requirements are met.  

• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams (Security Data Network Application UX) champion the AWS Well-Architected Framework guide incident/problem management oversee cost management and financial governance and build strategic relationships to advance technology initiatives. 

Qualifications :

Required:

• Bachelors Degree with 8 years experience; Masters Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience. Experience in application program development.

• AWS Core: EC2 VPC S3 Lambda RDS/Aurora DynamoDB EventBridge EKS/ECS/Fargate API Gateway Control Tower Identity Center CloudWatch 

• Landing Zone & Governance: Secure Landing Zone AWS Organizations multi-account guardrails SCPs 

• IaC & Automation: CloudFormation AWS CDK Terraform Ansible; GitHub Actions Jenkins CodePipeline; Git Python Bash PowerShell Docker 

• DevOps & SDLC: Trunk-based development automated testing GitOps (ArgoCD Flux) policy-as-code artifact management 

• AI & Observability: Amazon Q Claude Datadog AI AWS AI/ML services; AI-powered monitoring/automation anomaly detection predictive scaling automated triage 

• Security & Compliance: IAM KMS Secrets Manager GuardDuty Security Hub AWS WAF; alignment to GxP HIPAA GDPR 21 CFR Part 11; Tenable/WizIO integrations 

• Monitoring & Mgmt: CloudWatch ServiceNow Datadog Prometheus Grafana ELK; optional Splunk SolarWinds Dynatrace 

• Networking: VPC design subnetting NAT/Transit Gateway VPN/Direct Connect routing load balancing 

• Containerization: Docker Kubernetes (EKS) ECS Fargate 

• Communication & Leadership: Clear written/verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences; effective cross-functional collaboration 

Preferred:

• Hands-on AWS Engineering  8 years designing building and operating large-scale AWS platforms (multi-cloud experience with Azure/GCP is a plus); pharma/regulatory experience preferred. 

• Serverless & Containers  Deep experience with Lambda API Gateway ECS/EKS service mesh and secure API design. 

• CI/CD & Automation  Proven track record building robust pipelines and IaC for applications and infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform/CDK. 

• AI Tools & Integration  Demonstrated experience using and integrating AI/ML tools (Amazon Q Claude Datadog AI AWS AI/ML services) into DevOps monitoring and automation workflows for process improvement and operational efficiency. 

• Security & Compliance  Strong grounding in IAM encryption network security validated environments and regulated-environment controls. 

• Monitoring & Governance  Comprehensive experience with CloudWatch and third-party monitoring tools (e.g. WizIO ServiceNow) to ensure enterprise reliability. 

• Resilience & DR  Architecture patterns for high availability/disaster recovery on AWS; experience with chaos engineering and reliability testing. 

• Leadership & Mentorship  Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-functional teams recognized SME in AWS cloud services. 

• Certifications  AWS Solutions Architect Professional (preferred) AWS DevOps Engineer Cloud Practitioner; security credentials (CISSP/CCSP) advantageous. 

Additional Information :

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: 

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this postingbased on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location and we may ultimately paymore or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. 

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation holidays sick) medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commissionincentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and untilpaid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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