Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)
AbbVie
- Location
- North Chicago, IL, United States
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Level
- Mid
- H-1B history
- 94 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- 2h ago
Skills
About this role
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
AbbVie Information Security is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) Team, helping us defend against adversaries so our business can continue making a remarkable impact on people's lives. In this dynamic, hybrid on-premise and cloud-native environment, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that the production systems used by our Security Teams operate smoothly and reliably. Collaborating closely with developers and subject matter experts, you will help automate repetitive tasks to reduce 'toil', monitor system performance, and maintain essential toolsets and microservices. With GitOps at the core of our operations, this role offers an exciting opportunity to grow your skills in cloud platforms, observability, and containerized applications while contributing to a vital security mission.
Responsibilities
System Architecture Support: Assist in maintaining and improving systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability. CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance: Support the building, implementation, and iteration of CI/CD pipelines. Microservices Deployment: Assist with the management and deployment of microservice and containerized applications. Security Implementation: Help implement strong security controls across distributed systems and agents. Deployment Automation: Coordinate with engineers to help automate configurations and deployments across platforms. Observability Management: Write automation scripts and standardize alerts for established monitoring tools. Incident Response: Contribute to post-mortems and assist teams with root cause analysis. DevOps Promotion: Support Agile/Scrum practices and promote DevOps methodologies within the team. Hybrid Cloud Support: Assist in maintaining hybrid cloud and containerization service offerings. Toolset Operations: Work alongside subject matter experts to learn toolsets and suggest day-to-day operational improvements.
Qualifications
Required: Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; or Master’s Degree with 5 years’ experience; or PhD Foundational knowledge of Cloud Platform administration (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Experience with or a strong understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps). Familiarity with running Docker workloads and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS). Foundational understanding of observability tools and pillars (metrics, logs, tracing). Comfortable working in and administering Linux and Windows environments. Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies. A security-first mindset, treating best practices for security as a core requirement rather than an afterthought. Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively within a group. A strong passion for learning new concepts quickly and adapting to a changing environment. Preferred: Proficiency with development tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Git). Entry-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure AZ-900). Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) systems such as Terraform or GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Helm). Familiarity with observability solutions (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana). Knowledge of database management systems (NoSQL and Relational Databases). Prior hands-on experience working within an Agile team structure. Exposure to