Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

AbbVie is a company focused on discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Cyber Security Engineering Team, responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of production systems and enhancing system performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Architect new and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
• Build, implement, iterate over CI/CD pipelines
• Assist with the Management, Development, Design, and Deployment of microservice and containerized applications
• Implement strong security controls in distributed systems/agents
• Coordinate with engineers and developers to automate deployments and configurations across various platforms
• Abstract the complexity of Observability implementation by writing scalable automation
• Identify opportunities for improvement around observability and process
• Standardization and development of alerts/notifications and response to monitoring tools
• Work alongside application teams to implement Observability in day-to-day operations
• Contribute to post-mortems and provide root cause analysis and implementation of resulting action items
• Promote DevOps best-practices within the team
• Participate and promote Agile/Scrum
• Contribute to hybrid cloud production containerization service offering
• Design and implement standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations
• Working alongside application subject matter experts, learn our toolsets and suggest/implement new features to streamline operations

Requirements:

• 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 environments and understanding of distributed architectures
• Knowledge of Agile / DevOps methodologies
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Github Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity with running docker workloads using orchestration tools (Kubernetes / Amazon ECS)
• Ability to work both independently without direction and within a group for day-to-day activities
• Passion for learning new concepts and processes quickly, and adapting to a changing environment
• Comfortable working in and administering Linux and Windows environments
• Exposure and implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE
• Direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane
• Proficiency working 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)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner / Azure AZ-900 Certification
• Deep experience in implementation and design of serverless architecture solutions
• Demonstrated experience in deployment of containerized applications (Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience with data management and pipeline technologies (Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, etc)
• Prior experience working in an Agile team
• Solid understanding of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or similar application
• Excellent understanding of distributed system architectures and telemetry
• Excellent Experience in Deploying and managing large Kubernetes Distributed Platforms
• Proficiency in GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code systems (such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm)