Senior Specialist IT Architecture

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. Youll also have access to:

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

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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 bachelors 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

Join our Business Technology Services (BTS) / IT Infrastructure team as a Senior Specialist IT Architecture where youll lead the administration and strategic evolution of critical enterprise automation and DevOps platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in driving automation improving system reliability and enabling scalable infrastructure solutions across a complex environment.

What Youll Work On

• Own end-to-end administration of Jenkins GitLab Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform including upgrades patching monitoring and capacity planning

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions or equivalent) to support infrastructure automation and developer workflows

• Manage Red Hat Satellite lifecycle functions (content views activation keys errata) to ensure consistent and timely Linux patching across Ubuntu and RHEL environments

• Develop maintain and optimize Ansible playbooks and roles; administer Automation Platform components such as job templates workflows and execution environments

• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to internal policies audit requirements and industry best practices including vulnerability remediation and patch governance

• Create and maintain runbooks documentation and training materials; mentor team members on automation and scripting best practices

• Evaluate new platform capabilities and version updates providing recommendations and roadmaps for upgrades and enhancements

• Drive operational efficiency through automation scripting and continuous improvement initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure systems engineering or DevOps/automation roles

• Hands-on experience with Ansible or Ansible Automation Platform including playbook and role development

• 3 years of experience with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab GitHub or equivalent)

• Experience with Red Hat Satellite or similar lifecycle/patch management tools (e.g. SCCM WSUS or RMM platforms)

• Strong Linux systems administration expertise (RHEL CentOS Ubuntu) with command-line proficiency

• Experience in scripting (PowerShell Bash or Python) for automation and infrastructure management

• Strong communication skills with experience in documentation runbooks and cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat certifications (RHCE Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation) or similar

• Experience integrating automation platforms with ITSM tools (ServiceNow Jira)

• Background in regulated or compliance-driven environments (SOX HIPAA PCI-DSS)

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and hybrid infrastructure automation

• GitLab administration experience (runners access control package/registry management)

• Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Splunk)

• Experience with secrets management and credential governance tools (HashiCorp Vault CyberArk etc.)

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes Podman)

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS DHCP firewalls proxies)

• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware Nutanix Proxmox) in mixed OS environments

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