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 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries

JOB DESCRIPTION:

ABOUT ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS:

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbotts life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.

Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics.

Our location in Irving, TX currently has an opportunity for Senior DevOps Engineer

WHAT YOULL DO

We are looking for an experienced application and/or system administrator, DevOps expert with good experience in the Atlassian tools suite. As a part of the team you will be responsible for supporting the development team, building automated tools, and helping develop and maintain the build/deployment pipeline.

Responsibilities

* Responsible for deployment and configuration management, release management, environments management and infrastructure automation.

* Applies DevOps thinking - i.e. brings development and IT ops processes, people and tools closer together - in order to increase the speed, efficiency and quality with which we deliver product solutions

* Liaises with development teams, IT service groups and 3rd parties to encourage process transparency, mutually-beneficial design, delivery practices design and implement fully automated delivery pipeline

* Responsible for definition of DevOps processes and models.

* Responsible to develop and test DevOps features and tools.

* Pro-actively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, operation of the delivery pipeline

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOULL BRING

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate's degree and 7+ years of experience

Preferred skills and experience

* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or similar curriculum

* Experience in deploying multilayer software to physical infrastructure or environments management role on a major systems delivery program

* 8+ years experience in implementation of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline configuration using Atlassian suite, Jenkins and other standard tools

* 5+ years of experience in programming in C/C++ and C, Powershell scripts, Python scripts and other scripts as needed to automate processes

* 3+ years of experience in Atlassian suite Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and confluence

* 2+ years of experience in database management and script development MS SQL preferred

* Experience in automation of deployment activities in environments with Firmware, Embedded and OS based applications as one system

* Experience in agile and lean delivery concepts and methodologies

* Strong knowledge of continuous integration platforms, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, application release automation tools, IaaS and PaaS technologies etc.

* Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Desired skills and experienced

* Experience in working in Medical instrument development or controlled and heavy regulated environment

* Experience in global deployment strategies and implementation

* Experience in Java, Visual Basic and other scripting

* Configuration Management and Deployment Systems: (any from) Chef, Puppet, Ansible

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

* Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance

* Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans

* Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs

* Paid time off

* 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match

* The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

ADD Diagnostics

LOCATION:

United States > Irving : LC-02

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Abbott Park : AP01 Floor-1

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf