Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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.

Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Abbott Park, IL. currently has an opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong background in DevOps tools and practices. As a part of the team, you will be responsible for supporting the development team, building automated tools, and helping develop and maintain the build/deployment pipeline.

The ideal candidate is someone who has a passion for development and working on complex system software; takes pride in building top-quality software; and is driven to achieve operational excellence.

What You’ll Work On

Deployment and configuration management, release management, environments management and infrastructure automation

Apply DevOps thinking - i.e. bring development and IT ops processes, people and tools closer together - to increase the speed, efficiency and quality with which we deliver product solutions

Liaison with development teams, IT service groups and 3rd parties to encourage process transparency, mutually beneficial design, delivery practices design and implement fully automated delivery pipeline

Definition and execution of DevOps processes and models

Develop and test DevOps features and tools

Pro-actively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, and operation of the delivery pipeline

Periodically review Windows OS cumulative updates and test deployment of updates and functionality of our software after updates are installed

Perform regular vulnerability reviews of source code using industry standard tools (e.g. Coverity)

Required Qualifications

Associate’s degree and 7+ years of experience required

Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Strong interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with the product development team in a solutions-driven approach to resolving roadblocks/troubleshooting

Capable of working independently to achieve critical program goals and driven to work through any obstacles encountered

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or similar curriculum preferred

Experience with management and configuration of Atlassian suite – Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence strongly preferred

Experience in PowerShell scripts, Python scripts and other scripts as needed to automate processes preferred

Experience in deploying multilayer software to physical infrastructure or environments preferred

Experience in implementation of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline preferred

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.