Software DevOps Engineer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Software DevOps Engineer

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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

Our location in Abbott Park, IL. currently has an opportunity for a Software DevOps Engineer.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong background in DevOps tools and practices. As a part of the team, you will be responsible for supporting the development team, building automated tools, and helping develop and maintain the build/deployment pipeline.

The ideal candidate is someone who has a passion for development and working on complex system software, takes pride in building top-quality software, and is driven to achieve operational excellence.

What You’ll Work On

• Deployment and configuration management, release management, environment management, and infrastructure automation

• Apply DevOps thinking - i.e., bring development and IT ops processes, people, and tools closer together - to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality with which we deliver product solutions

• Liaison with development teams, IT service groups, and 3rd parties to encourage process transparency, mutually beneficial design, delivery practices design and implement a fully automated delivery pipeline

• Definition and execution of DevOps processes and models

• Develop and test DevOps features and tools

• Proactively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, and operation of the delivery pipeline

• Periodically review Windows OS cumulative updates and test the deployment of updates and functionality of our software after updates are installed

• Perform regular vulnerability reviews of source code using industry standard tools (e.g. Coverity)

Required Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and 1-3 years of experience

• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with the product development team in a solutions-driven approach to resolving roadblocks/troubleshooting

• Capable of working independently to achieve critical program goals and driven to work through any obstacles encountered

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or similar curriculum preferred

• Experience with management and configuration of the Atlassian suite – Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket, and Confluence strongly preferred

• Experience in PowerShell scripts, Python scripts, and other scripts as needed to automate processes is preferred.

• Experience in deploying multilayer software to physical infrastructure or environments is preferred.

• Experience in the implementation of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline preferred.

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