Associate Linux Engineer, Technology II

Allergan; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie in San Francisco seeks an early‑career Linux engineer to join Information Research, collaborating with scientists and tech teams across the lifecycle—from requirements to implementation, testing and support, contributing ideas in an innovative Linux team.

You will learn Linux, automation, Ansible, and cloud concepts while developing clear documentation and runbooks and working with cross-functional partners to meet security and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years of relevant experience or Master’s Degree with no additional experience.
• Foundational knowledge of Linux distributions and admin practices.
• Exposure to patching, software installs, service management, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with security practices, backups, and change control.
• Ability to create clear, technical documentation and operational records.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Willingness to learn and apply new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support Linux engineering activities in enterprise environments with guidance.

Skills

Linux administration

Ansible

Documentation

Collaboration

Curiosity

Problem solving

Python/Bash scripting

Security best practices

Cloud concepts

Education

Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years relevant experience or Master’s Degree with no additional experience

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 on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and 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 cycle—from identifying needs and defining requirements through implementation, testing, operational support, and change—while 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 elevate 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years of relevantexperience;OR Master’s 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 or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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