DevOps Azure Developer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity:

Abbott is looking for a DevOps Azure Developer that will specialize in end-to-end application development with skills including Python back-end development, FastAPI framework, Jenkins Pipeline development, Azure App Service, and Azure API Manager.  The developer must have CI/CD experience that includes automated unit and integration testing and deployment.  The developer must have experience building containers for serverless deployments. Terraform experience used in the creation and maintenance of Azure subscriptions is a plus. PowerShell programming experience is a plus.

What You'll Work On:

• Must be able to operate independently and in a team oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to influence and be influenced by various customer and solution teams across the organization.  Balance company processes and security requirements based on the needs of the customers and the content they request
• Documentation experience needed.  Follow and update processes and procedures to be used by implementation and operations administrators
• Experience managing code in GitLab
• Object oriented programming skills using Python
• Experience with building and deploying containers with Kubernetes
• Strong communications skills with the ability to present technical ideas appropriately to customers with varying degrees of technical knowledge
• An enthusiasm for one’s work that shows in the creation of novel but repeatable and dependable solutions.  The initiative to seek out and conquer problems with the intent of ultimately enhancing the corporate IT environment
• A willingness and ability to train others on processes and provide answers to questions as needed to enable the greater functioning of other personnel
• Understanding of best practices around code quality and secrets management
• Flexibility to learn domain logic of multiple Enterprise Applications and Tools to create custom API interfaces

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOU’LL BRING

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience developing secure Cloud applications using PAAS preferably using Azure.
• Experience in designing/architecting secure Cloud applications.
• Proficiency in Python, with experience developing APIs using the FastAPI framework.
• Expertise in object-oriented programming, including best practices for automated unit, integration, and functional testing.
• Solid experience with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure API Management administration in an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience creating custom API interfaces to other third-party apps & tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and support experience using kubectl for Kubernetes environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Powershell is a plus
• Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform is a plus
• Cyber security understanding developing secure apps
• Knowledge of Azure Microservices
• Knowledge of GenAI.

MISC:

• This is an onsite role based in IL/MN locations. This is NOT a remote role/opportunity.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. 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.

The base pay for this position is

$99,300.00 – $198,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:

BTS Business Technology Services

LOCATION:

United States > Abbott Park : AP14/A/B

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Minnesota > St. Paul > Lillehei : One Lillehei Plaza

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)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.pdfEEO is the Law link- Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf