Principal Cloud Engineer

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Join an inclusive, collaborative Business Technology team as a Principal AWS Engineer in AbbVie BTS. In this hands-on role, you will architect, build, and optimize enterprise-scale AWS solutions, directly implementing cloud-native architectures, automation, and AI-driven enhancements in a global, highly regulated environment. You’ll lead by example—delivering robust, secure, and scalable AWS platforms—while also serving as a technical mentor and strategic leader to accelerate AbbVie’s digital transformation. 

In this role you’ll be responsible for: 

• Design and implement complex, secure cloud solutions that meet business needs and align with enterprise and functional architecture, while documenting technical decisions for clarity and reuse.  

• Lead development of AWS-based applications using Lambda, API Gateway, and ECS, and prototype scalable APIs with a focus on integration, security, reliability, and observability.  

• Build and automate infrastructure as code (IaC) with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, and Ansible to deliver reliable, repeatable deployments at scale.  

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline) for application and infrastructure delivery, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and policy checks.  

• Implement DevOps best practices using AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, and Docker, codifying environments and promotion workflows across environments.  

• Deploy and operate containerized and serverless workloads (EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda/Step Functions, EventBridge), selecting optimal compute strategies for microservices, batch, and ev