Associate Linux Engineer, Technology II

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an early-career Linux engineer to collaborate with scientists and technology professionals. You will support Linux systems across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments, under guidance from senior engineers.

You will learn to apply Ansible, automation, and infrastructure standards while contributing to testing, documentation, and operations to ensure secure, reliable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Foundational Linux administration experience or coursework.
• Interest in applying practical technology to scientific/business problems.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Support Linux engineering activities in enterprise environments with guidance from senior engineers.
• Assist with OS patching, software installs, and configuration changes under approved procedures.
• Contribute to automation and AI-enabled automation efforts.
• Document findings and escalate significant or recurring issues.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Linux administration

Automation scripting

Python basics

Collaborative skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible Tower/AWX

Git

AWS

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,Xand YouTube.

Job Description

Information Research at AbbVie partners with pharmaceutical R&D scientists to deliver technical solutions for complex scientific needs. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside scientists and technology professionals, solve everyday challenges, and help advance the digital transformation of drug discovery teams.

We are seeking a collaborative, curious early-career engineer who enjoys learning and applying practical technology to meaningful business problems. Working collaboratively with senior engineers, you will support scientific and Linux technology teams across the business-system life cyclefrom identifying needs and defining requirements through implementation, testing, operational support, and changewhile contributing ideas and developing within a diverse, energetic, and innovative Linux team.

Responsibilities

• Support Linux engineering activities in enterprise environments, including operations, maintenance, health checks, monitoring, configuration, access and file-system management, and issue resolution, with guidance from senior engineers.
• Assistwithoperating-systempatching, software installs and updates, certificate management, and configuration changes under approved procedures, change controls, maintenance schedules, security requirements, and senior guidance.
• Learn and apply Linux, infrastructure services, automation, and enterprise standards to support secure, reliable, reproducible, andtimelyoutcomes.
• Use Ansible and configuration-management tools to support standardized configurations, repeatable automation, and the maintenance of scripts and workflows; contribute ideas for automation and AI-enabled automation.
• Assistwith troubleshooting Linux systems, applications, infrastructure services, and automation workflows using logs, system behavior, performance indicators, and operational results; document findings and escalated significant or recurring issues.
• Contribute to the testing, documentation, implementation, and verification of infrastructure changes and deployments across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Develop andmaintainclear technical documentation with guidance, including procedures, runbooks,configuration,and automation records, troubleshooting guides, and support hand-off materials.
• Work closely with senior engineers and infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, platform, and service partners to coordinate maintenance, resolve issues, support projects, and learn practices that improve Linux reliability and security.
• Learn and follow corporate and divisional standards, policies, and procedures for conduct, safety,GxPcompliance, data integrity, cybersecurity, access and change control, incident management, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors Degree with 2 years of relevantexperience;OR Masters Degree with noadditionalexperience.
• Foundational experience or coursework with Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or other enterprise Linux distributions.
• Foundational theoretical and practical knowledge of Linux operating systems and standard administration practices, with interest in continuing to develop these skills.
• Exposure to routine Linux administration, including patching, software installs and updates, service management, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Basic understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, authentication, access controls, and system dependencies.
• Ability to review logs, command output,monitoringdata, and incident details to helpidentifyissues and contribute to root-cause analysis under guidance.
• Familiarity with security and operational practices, including vulnerability remediation, certificate management, least-privilege access, backups, change control, and system hardening.
• Ability to create clear,accuratetechnical documentation and operational records withappropriate review.
• Effective communication, collaboration, organization, problem-solving, and teamwork skills; able to work constructively with senior engineers and cross-functional partners.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn and applynew technologies, tools, methods, and procedures as business and technology needs evolve; openness to sharing ideas and learning from feedback.

Preferred:

• Exposure to Ansible Tower/AWX or similar platforms, including playbook execution, troubleshooting, and basic development or maintenance.
• Familiarity with Bash, Python, JavaScript, .NET, Shell scripting, or similar technologies, with interest in developing automation skills.
• Exposure / Familiarity with Git or other source-control tools.
• Exposure to public or private cloud environments; AWS experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring, logging,vulnerability-management, or ITservice-managementtools.
• Exposure to regulated,validated, orGxPenvironments.
• Foundational knowledge of TLS/SSL certificates, public key infrastructure, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, and related services.
• Relevant Linux, cloud, automation, or cybersecurity certification or interest in pursuing one.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with an approachable and collaborative working style.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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