KUBERNETES CLOUD ENGINEER/DEVOPS

Abbott Laboratories - Alameda, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Alameda, CA

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Kubernetes Cloud Engineer/DevOps role at Abbott focuses on leveraging technical expertise to enhance cloud infrastructure for medical devices, particularly for diabetes management. The position involves performing DevOps activities across multiple cloud service providers, establishing configuration management, automating infrastructure, and implementing continuous integration practices to create a highly available and secure cloud environment.

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 by building a 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 infrastructure security against cybersecurity threats, adhering to 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.
• At least 2-4 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3) and 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 and experience with a variety of 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 education benefits for obtaining a bachelor's degree.
• Career development opportunities within an international company.