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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Take the next step in your career with an organization that strategically invests in the long-term health of the company, its technology, and its people. The AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS) team shapes the digital transformation necessary for our treatments to positively impact patients’ lives. In the role of Principal Cloud Engineer, you will tackle complex challenges as you develop and diversify your professional experiences while helping others grow and develop their skills.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Leverage your extensive AWS expertise to implement state-of-the-art platform automations and technologies using cloud native services.
- Provide architecture, security, and technical guidance to accelerate infrastructure as code practices.
- Collaborate with teams in an agile environment to design, develop, and test AWS Cloud infrastructure solutions using modern cloud delivery concepts.
- Review architectural diagrams for proposed solutions, ensuring alignment with best practices, infrastructure requirements, and business needs.
- Partner with business teams to define technical requirements for modernization of legacy applications and systems and conversion to infrastructure as code deployment models (CICD Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible).
- Automation design, coding, and deployment of infrastructure within an AWS Environment, developing CI/CD pipelines, instrumenting code to report relevant metrics, and building safe and efficient.
- Partner with the security architecture team to ensure corporate policies and security requirements are implemented and followed for all cloud services.
- Implement and manage cloud security practices, including IAM roles, security groups, encryption, and compliance, to protect cloud environments and data.
- Serve as the most senior technical expert on cloud deployed products and infrastructure within the AWS Cloud while collaborating with architecture and application teams to develop robust and cost-efficient cloud solutions.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability and efficiency.
- Regularly review and update standards and procedures specific to cloud environments.
- Mentor and set the example for team members to foster a mindset of continuous improvement, professional development, and organizational engagement.
- Provide technical expertise and input into our overall cloud architecture, planning, and designs according to best practices and industry standards.
Tools and skills you will use in this role:
- Cloud services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, Identity Center, Secure Landing Zone, Control Tower, etc.
- Proficiency in AWS cloud services, including EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, Identity Center, Landing Zone, and Control Tower.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK.
- Skilled in automation tools like Jenkins, Git, Ansible, and PowerShell for efficient deployment and management.
- Experience with designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, including VPC, subnetting, VPN, Direct Connect, and routing.
In-depth knowledge of cloud security best practices, including IAM roles, security groups, encryption, and compliance.
- Familiarity with cloud monitoring and management tools such as AWS CloudWatch, as well as third-party solutions like WizIO and ServiceNow.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with security tools like AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and AWS WAF.
- Knowledge of configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation and security tasks.
- Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Prometheus.
- Understanding of identity and access management solutions such as AWS IAM.
Qualifications
Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:
Required
- Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of experience; Master's Degree with 7+ years of experience; PhD with 3 years of experience.
- 8+ years of demonstrated deep-dive work experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud services in a large-scale multi-cloud hosting environment such as AWS (required) and Azure (preferred).
- AWS Cloud Services: Expertise in AWS cloud services including EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, Identity Center, Secure Landing Zone, and Control Tower.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK for automating infrastructure deployment.
- Automation: Strong skills in using Jenkins, Git, Ansible, and PowerShell for automating build, deployment, and management processes.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
- Security Tools: Familiarity with AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty for enhancing cloud security.
- Cloud Security: Expertise in cloud security practices, including IAM roles, security groups, encryption, and compliance.
- Networking: Advanced understanding of networking concepts such as VPC, subnetting, VPN, Direct Connect, and routing.
- Monitoring and Management: Proficiency with AWS CloudWatch and third-party monitoring solutions like WizIO and ServiceNow.
- Containerization: Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python and Bash for automation and security tasks.
Beneficial Skills:
- Configuration Management: Knowledge of configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet.
- Logging and Monitoring: Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as the Splunk, Solarwinds, Dynatrace.
- Identity and Access Management: Understanding of identity and access management solutions such as AWS IAM.
- DevOps Best Practices: Strong grasp of DevOps principles and practices, emphasizing automation, continuous improvement, and collaborative development.
- Compliance and Governance: Understanding of cloud compliance and governance frameworks and regulations.
- Cost Management: Experience with AWS cost management and optimization strategies.
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/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
This job is eligible to participate in our long-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 employee 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 committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.
