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 DescriptionAbbVie Information Security is looking for a highly motivated, diligent, and skillful Site Reliability Engineer to join the Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) Team. The CSE Team, working within the Cyber Security Operations (CSO) function, is responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing the tool sets in use by the Information Security teams. Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer, Cyber Security Engineering to support and improve our efforts to defend against adversaries and help our business continue to have remarkable impacts on people’s lives.
This position can be remote anywhere in the U.S.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring production systems in use by the Security Teams operate smoothly, within uptime objectives, and updated with the latest content and functionality. The SRE, coordinating with developers, will monitor the pulse of system performance and capacity, proactively recommending and implementing changes while automating ‘toil’ and repetitive tasks.
The CSE team operates in a hybrid environment, supporting and maintaining elements of our tools in a hybrid of both on-premise and cloud-native environments. The ideal candidate should have experience in both virtualized environments as well as microservices, and be able to harmonize the architecture as needed. GitOps is at the core of our operations, and as we grow, our git footprint grows with us.
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
- 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
Preferred:
- 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)
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 postingbased 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 orless 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.
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 paidand may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree with 7 years of experience, master's degree with 6 years, or PhD with 2 years
- Knowledge of cloud platform administration using AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with observability pillars and monitoring practices
- Experience working in high-scale environments and distributed architectures
- Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
- Experience running Docker workloads with Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Ability to administer Linux and Windows environments
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Commitment to security best practices
- Exposure to or implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE
- Experience with Terraform or Crossplane
- Proficiency with Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Python, Elixir, or Go
- Experience integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls
- Knowledge of NoSQL, relational databases, and query languages
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 certification
- Experience designing and implementing serverless architectures
- Experience deploying containerized applications, including Kubernetes
- Experience with data management and pipeline technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, or Apache Storm
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability solutions
- Experience deploying and managing large Kubernetes distributed platforms
- Proficiency with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ArgoCD, or Helm
AbbVie Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AbbVie and has not been reviewed or approved by AbbVie.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are portrayed as a standout, with a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% and an additional annual company contribution based on age and service. Feedback suggests this materially boosts perceived total compensation for many U.S. employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave are emphasized, including up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents and 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave in the U.S. Feedback suggests these policies are a meaningful differentiator for employees balancing family needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as extensive, with tiered vacation that scales with tenure, 17 company holidays, and two paid volunteer days in the U.S. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave contributes notably to overall benefits satisfaction.
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What We Do
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on creating medicines and solutions that put impact first — for patients, communities, and our world. We aim to address complex health issues and enhance people's lives through our core therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, aesthetics and other areas of unmet need.
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