Principal Engineer, DevOps

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At Baxter we believe every personregardless of who they are or where they are fromdeserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today tomorrow and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together our community is driven by a culture of courage trust and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

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Baxter is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support enterprise cloud platforms that securely connect medical devices and clinical applications with Baxter and third-party systems. This role will design automate deploy and support cloud infrastructure across multiple environments. The successful candidate will bring strong technical skills personal ownership and the ability to collaborate effectively within a regulated healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design deploy and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Build and support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) infrastructure including clusters node pools namespaces workloads resource configurations ingress networking and scaling.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts Kubernetes manifests and environment-specific configurations.
• Develop and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps GitHub Actions and related automation tools.
• Support Azure services including PostgreSQL Flexible Server Cosmos DB Azure Managed Redis Storage Accounts Key Vault App Configuration and Azure Container Registry.
• Support platform components and services such as Traefik RabbitMQ VerneMQ Prometheus and Grafana.
• Plan and implement infrastructure changes associated with platform releases and application integrations.
• Evaluate infrastructure dependencies service versions support timelines and upgrade requirements as part of infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployment networking performance and application-integration issues across non-production and production environments.
• Implement monitoring alerting logging and operational dashboards using Azure-native and platform observability tools.
• Apply security best practices involving managed identities secrets management role-based access network controls vulnerability management and least privilege access.
• Create and maintain technical documentation implementation plans impact assessments deployment specifications and Jira work items.
• Collaborate with engineering and operational teams to coordinate changes validate deployments resolve incidents and improve platform reliability.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve automation standardization resilience scalability and delivery efficiency.
• Take ownership of assigned work from planning through implementation validation documentation and closure.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Strong experience in designing deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes Helm YAML containerization and microservices-based platforms.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or comparable platforms.
• Working knowledge of Azure networking including virtual networks subnets routing load balancers private endpoints DNS and network security controls.
• Experience supporting production-grade cloud infrastructure and resolving complex technical issues.
• Scripting or automation experience using PowerShell Bash Python or similar languages.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently plan work communicate risks follow through on commitments and collaborate across teams.

Join Baxter Internationals technology team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge medical products that enhance patient care worldwide. As a DevOps Engineer your role will be pivotal in driving continuous improvement innovation and reliability in our software delivery processes. If you are passionate about leveraging the latest DevOps tools and technologies we welcome you to apply and be part of our mission to save and sustain lives.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one as well as insurance coverage for basic life accident short-term and long-term disability and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts educational assistance programs and time-off benefits such as paid holidays paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service family and medical leaves of absence and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits the Employee Discount Program the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits Baxter

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