Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AbbVie is a company dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions that address serious health issues. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support and improve their Cyber Security Engineering efforts, ensuring production systems operate smoothly and efficiently while collaborating with developers to enhance system performance.
Responsibilities
- Architect new and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Build, implement, iterate over CI/CD pipelines
- Assist with the Management, Development, Design, and Deployment of microservice and containerized applications
- Implement strong security controls in distributed systems/agents
- Coordinate with engineers and developers to automate deployments and configurations across various platforms
- Abstract the complexity of Observability implementation by writing scalable automation
- Identify opportunities for improvement around observability and process
- Standardization and development of alerts/notifications and response to monitoring tools
- Work alongside application teams to implement Observability in day-to-day operations
- Contribute to post-mortems and provide root cause analysis and implementation of resulting action items
- Promote DevOps best-practices within the team
- Participate and promote Agile/Scrum
- Contribute to hybrid cloud production containerization service offering
- Design and implement standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations
- Working alongside application subject matter experts, learn our toolsets and suggest/implement new features to streamline operations
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree with 7 years' experience; Master's Degree with 6 years' experience; PhD with 2 years' experience
- Treat best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
- Knowledge of Cloud Platform administration (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Familiarity with Observability pillars
- Experience in working in high-scale environments and understanding of distributed architectures
- Knowledge of Agile / DevOps methodologies
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Github Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
- Familiarity with running docker workloads using orchestration tools (Kubernetes / Amazon ECS)
- Ability to work both independently without direction and within a group for day-to-day activities
- Passion for learning new concepts and processes quickly, and adapting to a changing environment
- Comfortable working in and administering Linux and Windows environments
- Exposure and implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE
- Direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane
- Proficiency working with development tools and scripting languages (git / mercurial / subversion; Python / Elixir / Go)
- Integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls
- Knowledge of database management systems (NoSQL, Relational Databases, and associated query languages)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner / Azure AZ-900 Certification
- Deep experience in implementation and design of serverless architecture solutions
- Demonstrated experience in deployment of containerized applications (Kubernetes, etc)
- Experience with data management and pipeline technologies (Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, etc)
- Prior experience working in an Agile team
- Solid understanding of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or similar application
- Excellent understanding of distributed system architectures and telemetry
- Excellent Experience in Deploying and managing large Kubernetes Distributed Platforms
- Proficiency in GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code systems (such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm)
Benefits
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k) to eligible employees
- Eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs
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