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Devops Engineer

Edge Computing

Full-time

Highland Park, IL

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers – such as glucose, ketones, and lactate – to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.

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

Personalized healthcare is the future. Working on Lingo, you will help build a next-generation technology that enables individuals to make decisions about how to improve energy, lose weight or enhance athletic performance. The Lingo team embodies a start-up culture and mindset with the backing of Abbott, a company with a rich history of healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your career as you help Abbott shape the future of healthcare.

This Cloud and DevOps Engineer position works out of our Alameda, CA location.

You will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of enterprise-grade cloud solutions for our web and mobile products. You will be focused on automating the deployment of cloud infrastructure and services to support application development and hosting (architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the underlying logical and physical cloud infrastructure).


What you’ll do

  • Define standards (and/or select cloud vendor products) for each infrastructure tower in coordination with traditional engineering and network teams

  • Design and implement CI/CD pipeline elements to provide automated compilation, assembly, and testing of containerized and non-containerized components

  • Improve cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit—including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of the cloud infrastructure

  • Design and implement novel solutions to automate cloud-environment provisioning

  • Collaborate with developers and other technologists in the engineering team to continuously improve the engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security

  • Responsible for managing capacity across public and private cloud resource pools, including automating scale-down/-up of environments

  • Build and set up new development tools and infrastructure

  • Automate and improve development and release processes

  • Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

Qualifications

  • University degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or similar technical disciplines

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in a cloud/DevOps engineer role

  • Expertise in infrastructure as code (e.g., cloud formation, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

  • Experience with configuring, deploying, and operating public cloud services (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)

  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes

  • Basic familiarity with network features, e.g., cloud network topology, BGP, routing, web (REST) APIs

  • High availability engineering experience (region, availability zone, data replication clustering)

  • Product development in a scaled agile environment with an awareness of DevOps methodologies and ability/mindset to drive rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions

  • Experience in agile development

  • Strong people skills, specifically in collaboration and teamwork

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  • Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow 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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.


The base pay for this position is $82,100.00 – $164,100.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.