Senior Engineer, Technology I (Platform Administrator - Linux)

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a technology solutions expert to drive innovation and efficiency across multiple business areas. This role involves collaborating with various teams to design and implement cutting-edge software and data solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Linux administration, AWS architecture, and Docker, along with excellent communication skills. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and have a proven track record in delivering impactful solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team dedicated to transforming lives through innovative healthcare solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in technology solutions implementation.
• Strong UNIX coding/scripting skills for automation.
• Experience with Docker and AWS architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement technology solutions for business needs.
• Lead projects and mentor less experienced staff.
• Optimize infrastructure costs and performance in AWS.

Skills

Linux Administration

Docker

AWS Architecture

Scripting (UNIX)

Network Troubleshooting

Technical Documentation

Data Integration

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

Neo4j

Elasticsearch

MarkLogic

Amazon EKS

Dataiku

Job description

Company Description

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 immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

Work collaboratively with technology and business groups to conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, and technology solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems. Investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Install, operationalize, tune, support, and upgrade infrastructure platforms including vector, graph, and nosql environments. Provide technical leadership by defining best practices, designing high availability deployment patterns, defining backup, disaster recovery strategies, and leading 24x7 operations team. Optimize infrastructure costs while balancing performance requirements in AWS deployments. Develop productive collaborations and communications with other groups across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, or technology solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; Routinely demonstrate initiative and creativity in developing technology solutions.
• Serve as technical expert or lead projects/programs and technical staff to develop, test and implement significant new products, or operational improvements or devise new approaches to problems at the division/business unit.
• Analyzes and resolves technical problems using analytical problem solving methods/techniques and associated tools/devices.
• Contribute to advancement of own function by studying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and computing equipment; participate in educational opportunities and professional organizations.
• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.
• Highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor. Accountable for total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control.
• May initiate new areas of investigation that are meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a scientific or business activity.
• Provides technical leadership and mentors and consults with less experienced staff in in planning, methods, procedures, standards and best practices.
• Maintains relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors in accordance with Abbvie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors Degree with 6 years experience; Masters Degree with 5 years experience; PhD with 0 years experience.
• Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills
• Experiencewriting detailed technical documentsand instructions
• Experience with implementation,installation, administration, upgrade, performance tuning, troubleshooting, backup, and recoveryof Linux based environments.
• Experience troubleshooting network related application issues, an understanding of load balancers, and web application firewalls.
• Experience building docker images using Dockerfiles, managing/administering containers, and using docker-compose for orchestration
• Experience implementing access controls using LDAP authentication, SSO, and MFA
• Understanding encryption measures to protect sensitive data
• Strong UNIX coding/scripting skills used to automate administrative activities
• AWS architecture knowledge including experience tuning EBS IOPS and Throughput parameters
• Ability to periodically work nights or weekends (On-Call)

Preferred:

• Experience with managing Neo4j, Elasticsearch, MarkLogic, Amazon EKS, and Dataiku
• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of graph and vector databases
• Experience in Health Care / Regulated Environment

Additional Information

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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