Sr. Site Reliability Engineer. Cloud at Abbott Laboratories

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.
• 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 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

This Site Reliability Engineer (Sr Engineer, DevOps Engineering) position works onsite out of our Sylmar, CA or Sunnyvale, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Managment Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

We are seeking a high caliber Senior SRE Engineer. Working under general supervision, performs a variety of development and production operation activities including, but not limited to, planning, and coordinating software deployment, implementation of various services involving on-prem and Cloud, developing and maintaining software tools, supporting and troubleshooting applications. You will be working on various Cloud services involving PAAS and IAAS services. You will also contribute to our existing operations hosted on-prem which includes managing several java applications, support middleware technologies, continuous automation, adapt Site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to operations problems and participate in quality, compliance, security initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud platform such as implementing, configuring, and tuning services involving Microservices, Azure Kubernetes Cluster, Function apps, IOT HUB, APIM, Key Vault, F5 Load Balancers, Postgres databases.
• Experience with build and deployment process involving CI/CD, Bitbucket, Jfrog Artifactory, Jenkins etc.
• Experience in configuration management tools such as Chef
• Experience in java, middleware applications operations and administration.
• Experience supporting development and production environments, on-call support, Observability and Health monitoring.
• Good understanding of Architecture, High Availability configurations, Load balancing, Fault tolerance, Resiliency, Disaster recovery
• The ability to interact and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with customers, vendors, partners, and all members of staff is required. Continual knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of junior staff is also expected.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or relevant disciplines
• 3+ years DevOps experience managing on-prem or Cloud applications.
• Good understanding of modern, cloud centric architectures and microservices
• Good understanding of Java applications, Node.js, ActiveMQ, Microservices, CI/CD pipelines, Azure Kubernetes Cluster, Postgres
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system, standard networking protocols, and components
• Familiarity with logging tools, such as Graylog, Splunk
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Applications manager, SolarWinds, Prometheus
• Knowledge and experience in patching, security remediations, security hardening, threat modeling and pen testing
• Proficiency with SQL queries and database technologies involving Oracle, Postgres
• Good understanding of databases such as Oracle and Postgres
• Good understanding of operating system and networking
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• The ability to interact and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with customers, vendors, partners, and all members of staff is required. Continual knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of junior staff is also expected.

The DevOps Engineering team provides a fast-paced, dynamic work environment where engineers work closely to provide software services to patients and physicians. You will collaborate with other engineers in Architecture, Development, Product, IT, Systems engineering teams to continue finding new areas that can be improved by bringing a DevOps/SRE mindset to product offerings. We’re passionate about building products that improve the quality of life for patients. We like to learn along the way and depend on everyone’s input to help us grow as a team. Employees act on their strong desire to make a difference, partner with others and put ideas into action. Employees are engaged by a work culture that is team oriented, fast-paced and progressive.