Senior DevOps Software Engineer
ABOUT ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS
The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.
Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations — with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and 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.
- 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Our Diagnostics business currently has an opportunity for the role of Senior DevOps Software Engineer for our Abbott Park, IL location. The primary function of this position is to design, implement, and maintain tools and processes for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of software.
What You’ll Work On- Responsible for deployment and configuration management, release management, environments management and infrastructure automation.
- Applies DevOps thinking
- i.e. brings development and IT ops processes, people and tools closer together
- in order to increase the speed, efficiency and quality with which we deliver product solutions.
- Liaises with development teams, IT service groups and 3rd parties to encourage process transparency, mutually beneficial design, delivery practices design and implement fully automated delivery pipelines.
- Responsible for definition of DevOps processes and models.
- Responsible to develop and test DevOps features and tools.
- Pro-actively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, operation of the delivery pipeline.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOU’LL BRING
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or similar curriculum with a minimum of six years of related experience or Master’s Degree with four years of experience, including:
- Experience in deploying multilayer software to physical infrastructure or environments management role on a major systems delivery program.
- A solid technical background, with at least 6+ years’ experience in implementation of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline configuration using Atlassian suite, Jenkins and other standard tools.
- 5+ years of experience in programming in C/C++ and C#, Powershell scripts, Python scripts and other scripts as needed to automate processes.
- 3+ years of experience in Atlassian suite, Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence.
- 2+ years of experience in database management and script development MS SQL preferred.
- Experience in automation of deployment activities in environments with Firmware, Embedded and OS based applications as one system.
- Experience in agile and lean delivery concepts and methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of continuous integration platforms, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, application release automation tools, IaaS and PaaS technologies etc.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in working in Medical instrument development or controlled and heavy regulated environment.
- Experience in working with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins.
- Experience in global deployment strategies and implementations.
- Experience in Java, Visual Basic and other scripting.
- Configuration Management and Deployment Systems: (any from) Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform.
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 Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.
The base pay for this position is $72,700.00 – $145,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.