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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
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 .
- Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
- 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.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
As senior member of Site Reliability Engineering, you will play a critical role in establishing and executing a site reliability strategy for the Heart Failure Division Medical Device Mobile and Cloud Digital Software portfolio (both Class II and Class III). You will partner with and influences our Architecture and Engineering teams in delivering highly resilient software solutions for our customers.
You will be responsible for implementing SRE improvement processes, procedures and influencing change within the organization. You will need a strong software engineering background in a highly secured environment and have DevOps or formal test automation, load testing or SRE experience. You will need extensive technical knowledge in the development, delivery, and implementation of highly complex and critical software systems. Expertise in the value and principles of SRE (SLI/SLO, Error Budgets, Toil, Observability, Release Engineering) is critical for success in this role. You will have demonstrated the ability to develop, communicate and execute your vision resulting in the adoption of practices and tooling that will help strengthen our position as the premier leader in the Heart Failure business.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITY
•Develop and enable a culture of SRE in our software development, delivery and operational practices.
•Implement a comprehensive SRE strategy and roadmap in partnership with the HF Digital team.
•Identify critical KPI’s and Metrics and execute on the SRE roadmap.
•Help software engineering teams and business stakeholders establish and evolve reliability goals and measure progress against those goals using SLIs/SLOs
Automates manual processes via scripting and/or tools. Create automated regression & sustaining test suite and manage continuous execution of the tests.
•Works closely with Development, Network, Infrastructure and Requirements team on critical issues by evaluating the problem, proposing and implementing resolutions and partnering with other teams as needed for the resolution.
•Evaluate the current tiers of service of our applications, reliability standards and practices to define steps to continuously improve on them.
•Participate in blameless postmortems on critical incidents and help teams use their learnings to better predict, detect and prevent future issues.
•Experience with building robust continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using the tools on-premises as well as on cloud.
•Partner with the customer support team for rapid resolution of issues
•Evaluate and monitor social signals for site reliability. Monitor app store comments and other social channels.
•Build a practice of rapid detection and root cause determination while keeping stakeholders informed.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Bachelors Degree (± 16 years). In a computer science, Information Technology or relevant field, an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Masters Degree (± 18 years) In a technical discipline.
Experience/Background
- Minimum 7 years of experience developing large-scale digital software systems.
- Exposure to cloud development and deployment technologies, including containerization, infrastructure as code, and multi-cloud configurations.
- Deep understanding of DevOps and SRE Best Practices.
- Hands-on experience with any of the two CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Helm, Chef, Terraform.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Container Orchestrations, Docker, and Cloud Native applications.
- Hands-on experience with Managing application configuration using configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Azure App Configuration.
- Hands-on experience with Grafana, JMeter, or similar performance monitoring tools.
- Experience with Creating, maintaining and Managing GIT source code repositories like BitBucket or GitHub.
- Strong scripting skills in languages such as Shell, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java.
- Experience with GIT, Jira, Confluence and similar issues tracking and collaboration tools.
WHAT WE OFFER
At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:
- Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
- Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
- Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
- Paid time off
- 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
- The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities
Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.
Divisional Information
Medical Devices
General Medical Devices:
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
CRM
As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.
Diabetes
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Vascular
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
Neuromodulation
Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.
Structural Heart
Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist
Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.
EP
In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
HF
In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
Diagnostics
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.
Nutrition
Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® and ZonePerfect® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.
The base pay for this position is
$92,800.00 – $185,600.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
HF Heart Failure
LOCATION:
United States > Pleasanton : 5000 Franklin Dr
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf