Senior Site Reliability Engineer

AbbVie; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Cyber Security Engineering team. The role focuses on ensuring production systems used by security teams remain highly available while reducing toil through automation.

The team operates in a hybrid environment with on-prem and cloud-native components, emphasizing GitOps, microservices, and scalable observability across platforms. Remote work is available nationwide in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; PhD with 2 years’ experience.
• Knowledge of Cloud Platform administration (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GithubActions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/Amazon ECS for docker workloads.
• Experience with Agile / DevOps methodologies.
• Strong observability and telemetry background (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Architect new and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Build and iterate CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist with development and deployment of microservice and containerized apps.
• Implement strong security controls in distributed systems.
• Automate deployments and configurations across platforms with engineers.
• Develop scalable observability and alerts/monitoring tooling.
• Promote DevOps best practices and Agile/Scrum.
• Contribute to hybrid cloud production containerization services.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Observability

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

GitOps

DevOps

Linux/Windows

Python/Go

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Amazon ECS

Terraform

Crossplane

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie Information Security is looking for a highly motivated,diligent,andskillfulSite Reliability Engineerto join theCyber SecurityEngineering(CSE) Team. TheCSE Team,workingwithin the Cyber Security Operations (CSO) function,is responsible fordesigning, deploying,maintaining, and optimizing the tool setsin use by the Information Security teams.Join us asaSite ReliabilityEngineer,Cyber Security Engineeringtosupport and improve our efforts to defendagainst adversaries and help our business continue to have remarkable impacts on people’s lives.

This position can be remote anywhere in the U.S.

TheSeniorSite Reliability Engineer willbe responsible forensuring production systems in use by the Security Teams operatesmoothly,withinuptimeobjectives, andupdated with the latest content and functionality.The SRE, coordinating with developers,willmonitorthepulse of system performance and capacity,proactively recommending and implementing changes while automating‘toil’ andrepetitive tasks.

The CSE teamoperatesin a hybrid environment, supporting andmaintainingelements of our tools in a hybrid of bothon-premiseand cloud-native environments.The ideal candidate should have experience in both virtualized environments as well asmicroservices, andbe able to harmonize the architecture as needed.GitOpsis atthe core of our operations, and as we grow, our git footprint grows with us.

Responsibilities

• Architectnew and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
• Build,implement, iterate overCI/CDpipelines
• Assist with the Management, Development, Design, and Deployment ofmicroserviceandcontainerized applications
• Implement strong security controls in distributed systems/agents
• Coordinate with engineers and developersto automate deployments and configurations across various platforms
• Abstract the complexity of Observability implementation by writing scalable automation
• Identifyopportunities for improvement around observability and process
• Standardization and developmentof alerts/notificationsand response tomonitoring tools
• Work alongside application teams to implement Observability in day-to-day operations
• Contribute to post-mortems and provideroot cause analysisand implementation of resulting action items
• Promote DevOps best-practices within the team
• Participate and promote Agile/Scrum
• Contribute tohybrid cloud production containerization service offering
• Designand implementstandards, policies, and proceduresfor automation andintegrations
• Working alongside application subject matter experts, learn our toolsets and suggest/implement new features to streamline operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 6 years’ experience’ PhD with 2 years’ experience.
• Treat best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
• Knowledge of Cloud Platform administration(AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiarity with Observability pillars
• Experience in working in high-scale environmentsand understanding of distributed architectures
• Knowledgeof Agile / DevOps methodologies
• Experience withCI/CD tools(GithubActions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity withrunning docker workloadsusingorchestration tools (Kubernetes/AmazonECS) Abilityto workbothindependently without directionand withina groupfor day-to-day activities
• Passion forlearning new concepts and processes quickly, and adapting to a changing environment
• Comfortable working inand administeringLinuxand Windows environments

Preferred

• Exposure and implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE
• Direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane
• Proficiencyworking with development tools and scripting languages (git / mercurial / subversion; Python /Elixir/ Go)
• Integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls
• Knowledge of database management systems (NoSQL, Relational Databases, and associated query languages)
• AWSCloud Practitioner/ AzureAZ-900Certification
• Deep experience in implementation and design of serverless architecture solutions
• Demonstratedexperience in deployment of containerized applications (Kubernetes,etc)
• Experience with datamanagementand pipelinetechnologies(Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop,etc)
• Prior experience working in an Agile team
• Solid understanding of observability solutions usingOpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or similar application
• Excellent understanding of distributed system architectures and telemetry
• Excellent Experience in Deploying and managing large Kubernetes Distributed Platforms
• ProficiencyinGitOpspractices and Infrastructure as Code systems (such as Terraform,ArgoCD, Helm)

Additional Information

• 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 the timeof this postingbased on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore orless 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.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paidandmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable 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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What AbbVie Has to Offer

Our work can—and does—have a tangible, lasting impact on millions of people. But it’s not just the results that matter. How we achieve them matters, too. Leading with purpose, we work to build a more sustainable future for generations to come. We do that by putting our expertise, resources and talent to work to make a real difference for patients, communities and our world.