Kubernetes Cloud Engineer/DevOps

$109,300 - $218,700/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Rolling Meadows, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Rolling Meadows, IL

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The position involves performing DevOps activities across multiple Cloud Service Providers to support the development of a medical device SaaS aimed at improving the lives of people with diabetes. The candidate will be responsible for establishing configuration management, automating infrastructure, implementing continuous integration, and applying DevOps best practices to create a continuously deployable system. This role requires collaboration with various teams to build a secure, scalable, and efficient cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise to plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure expressed as code.
• Evaluate new technology alternatives and implement new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).
• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for Cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance collaboratively with Software Engineering.
• Work collaboratively with InfoSec to ensure that infrastructure is safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, adhering to Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization.
• Manage the creation, release, and configuration of production systems, optimizing existing development and release processes through automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant technical fields.
• 6-12 total years of experience in relevant fields.
• At least 2-4 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3).
• Experience creating highly automated environments with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with container orchestration services (Kubernetes experience preferred).
• Strong foundation of networking and Linux administration with experience in various open-source technologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous exposure to medical devices, biomedical or high technology industry.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and the Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit for obtaining a bachelor's degree.
• Career development opportunities with an international company.