Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Abbott; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Heart Failure division in Pleasanton, CA. This role involves establishing a site reliability strategy, improving software solutions, and collaborating with various teams to enhance system reliability. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering background and extensive experience in SRE principles and practices.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement programs

Qualifications

• 6-12 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and cloud technologies.
• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python and Shell.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enable a culture of SRE in software practices.
• Implement a comprehensive SRE strategy and roadmap.
• Automate manual processes and manage continuous test execution.

Skills

DevOps

SRE principles

Scripting

Cloud development

Containerization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Docker

Grafana

Job description

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 114,000 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 your 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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure division. 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.

As a 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 influence 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. Extensive technical knowledge in the development, delivery, and implementation of highly complex and critical software systems is required. Expertise in SRE principles (SLI/SLO, Error Budgets, Toil, Observability, Release Engineering) is critical. You will demonstrate the ability to develop, communicate, and execute your vision, leading to the adoption of practices and tooling that will strengthen our position as a leader in the Heart Failure business.

What You’ll Work On

• 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 KPIs and Metrics and execute on the SRE roadmap.
• Assist software engineering teams and stakeholders in establishing and evolving reliability goals using SLIs/SLOs.
• Automate manual processes via scripting and tools, create automated regression & sustaining test suites, and manage continuous test execution.
• Collaborate with Development, Network, Infrastructure, and Requirements teams on critical issues, evaluating problems, proposing, and implementing solutions.
• Evaluate current service tiers, reliability standards, and practices to identify improvement steps.
• Participate in blameless postmortems on critical incidents to learn and prevent future issues.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using on-premises and cloud tools.
• Partner with customer support for rapid issue resolution.
• Monitor social signals for site reliability, including app store comments and social channels.
• Establish rapid detection and root cause analysis practices, keeping stakeholders informed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 6-12 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, IT, or relevant field
• Master's Degree in a technical discipline
• 12+ years of experience
• 8-10 years developing large-scale digital software systems
• Experience with cloud development, containerization, infrastructure as code, multi-cloud configurations
• Deep understanding of DevOps and SRE best practices
• Hands-on with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Helm, Chef, Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Native applications
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Azure App Configuration
• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, JMeter
• Proficient with GIT, Jira, Confluence
• Strong scripting skills in Shell, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java

Apply Now

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The base pay for this position is

$112,000.00 – $224,000.00

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:

No

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)

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