Abbott Laboratories - Los Angeles, CA
posted 4 months ago
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Abbott, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Research and Development IT team within the Medical Device Division. This position is based in one of our three locations: Sylmar, CA; Maple Grove, MN; or Little Canada, MN. Your primary responsibility will be to create technical and functional specifications, as well as support both new and existing applications and processes. This will enable development teams to release medical device software and systems more rapidly and efficiently. You will collaborate closely with other IT operational and software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems and platforms, ensuring optimal client utilization. In this role, you will manage and enhance the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure and tools, which are essential for improving the development workflow across various teams. You will design, build, and run CI/CD pipelines for a wide range of software applications. Additionally, you will administer the Jenkins suite of applications and troubleshoot issues in development tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Nexus, and Confluence. Your responsibilities will also include building and developing IT solutions, creating and managing shell scripts, and presenting system design diagrams and technical implementation details to engineers and partner IT teams. You will be expected to identify manual processes within the organization and automate them, contributing to end-user training as needed. Effective communication with management will be essential to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information systems. You will also need to comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and other regulatory requirements, ensuring that all tasks are completed within the assigned sprint. Your role will involve working with infrastructure engineers and other application teams to implement solutions that provide excellent access, throughput, availability, security, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining simplicity and adhering to industry best practices. Furthermore, you will develop necessary documentation, testing, and change control procedures to satisfy internal product validation and ensure compliance during audits.