Principle Cloud Engineer, DevOps

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• 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 Principal Cloud Engineer, DevOps position can work out remotely within the U.S.

The Principal DevOps Engineer role requires leading cloud operations, developer experience, and data infrastructure practices. SME understanding of multiple cloud service providers, and working with engineering teams to enhance observability, and develop best practices for utilizing data services in the cloud, while also providing technical leadership, mentoring, and fostering technical growth within the team and organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Collaborate with and lead Cloud Devops team to enhance observability and monitoring for web and mobile applications.

• Work with cybersecurity to ensure continuous hardening of cloud infrastructure.

• Lead cloud operation organization and maintains technical skills for future technical opportunities.

• Automate cloud native technologies, deploy applications, and provision critical infrastructure.

• Document deployment procedures, environments, and technical changes across team and organization.

• Utilize operational monitoring tools.

• Mentor fellow DevOps team members, cross-training and fostering technical growth and acts as the SME.

• Provide technical leadership to the Cloud DevOps team.

• Define best practices and guardrails for deploying data infrastructure across multiple cloud environments.

• Responsible for compliance to applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Nurtures relationships with key suppliers of cloud technologies to keep abreast of emerging technologies, ensure solution stability, optimal pricing, and influences their product direction.

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

• Minimum 12 years of experience, Master’s Degree with 7+ years of related experience, or Ph.D. with 2+ years of related experience

• Expert knowledge in AWS Cloud platform, networks, middleware and backend applications for large scale enterprise environments.

• Expert knowledge with continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD), source control, pipelines, and automation.

• Expert knowledge of app development, cybersecurity, cloud development, and deployment.

• Exceptional problem-solving and communic