Senior Cloud infrastructure Engineer
Lake Forest, CA - USA
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Job Title
Senior Cloud infrastructure Engineer
Working at Abbott
At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll 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 a high employer contribution.
Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.
The Opportunity
The Senior Cloud infrastructure Engineer will work out of our Lake Forest IL location in our Core Diagnostics business unit. Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day more than 10 million tests are run on Abbotts diagnostics instruments providing lab results for millions of people.
What Youll Work On
Design develop deploy and release Cloud Platform Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes leveraging GitOps practices with Helm and Flux CD and adhering to Agile methodologies.
Build and maintain Platform Infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including services such as observability auditing and other shared platform capabilities.
Create package and manage Helm charts for deployment of PaaS and platform infrastructure.
Develop and operate centralized platform services on Azure (e.g. data pipelines storage solutions secure file transfer services) using appropriate Azure resources such as ADF Storage and SFTP.
Automate application and infrastructure deployment configuration and lifecycle management on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Flux CD and GitOps workflows across multiple environments (development test etc.).
Partner closely with Application Development teams to support platform adoption provide deployment guidance and enable application onboarding to Kubernetes environments.
Design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines including build and release workflows using GitHub Actions supporting containerized workloads (Docker Kubernetes).
Develop and maintain technical design documentation for cloud infrastructure integrations and new platform capabilities; collaborate with Platform Architects during design and implementation.
Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting related to build deployment and runtime issues affecting platform infrastructure and applications.
Participate across the full cloud lifecycle including provisioning scaling monitoring security and reliability while optimizing cloud usage and costs through platform design and Azure cost management practices.
Collaborate as an individual contributor within crossfunctional teams to deliver informatics and cloud-based products.
Travel occasionally within the U.S. or internationally as required by project assignments.
Required Qualifications
B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline including Software Engineering Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering is required.
M.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering is preferred.
5 years of experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure and platform services (e.g. Identity management VPN Network Access Controls Data Pipelines Storage Cloud Security etc.) or Masters plus 3 years of experience in same field.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong experience with Kubernetes and Helm Charts.
Azure and/or Kubernetes certification is preferred.
Strong experience with GitOps to manage infrastructure and application configurations.
Experience setting up robust observability and monitoring infrastructure (e.g. Prometheus/ Grafana etc.).
Programming expertise in one or more using C Go JavaScript languages.
Expertise in shell scripting is required.
Ability to review infrastructure architecture and implement it based on inputs from Platform Architects.
The candidate must have knowledge in maintaining DevOps tools and technologies such as GitHub Jenkins and Artifactory.
Familiarity with Administration of Atlassian tool suite for Issue management (Jira) & Knowledge management (Confluence) as well as Requirements management tools such as JAMA is a plus.
Familiarity with Data Privacy Practices (e.g. GDPR) across cloud regions is a plus.
Familiarity with AWS is a plus.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: 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
$78000.00 $156000.00In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
CRLB Core Lab
LOCATION:
United States > Lake Forest : CP01
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes 10 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
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.
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About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more