Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Cyber Security Engineering team within AbbVie Information Security. You will be responsible for ensuring production security systems operate smoothly, meet uptime objectives, and are kept up to date. This position can be remote anywhere in the United States.
What You'll Do
- Architect new and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Build, implement, and 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 and 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
- Standardize and develop alerts, notifications, and responses 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 in and promote Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Contribute to hybrid cloud production containerization service offering
- Design and implement standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations
- Learn our toolsets and suggest and implement new features to streamline operations
What We're Looking For
- A Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years’ experience; a Master’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; or a 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 working in high-scale environments and understanding of distributed architectures
- Knowledge of Agile and 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
Nice to Have
- 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 or 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)
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS
- CI/CD: Github Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Crossplane
- Languages: Python, Elixir, Go
- Version Control: Git, Mercurial, Subversion
- Databases: NoSQL, Relational Databases
- Data Technologies: Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
- GitOps & Tooling: ArgoCD, Helm, SPIRE, SPIFFE
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) Team within the Cyber Security Operations (CSO) function.
Benefits & Compensation
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Eligibility for short-term incentive programs
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates anywhere within the United States.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
