Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement and deploy CI/CD based solutions
• Support day-to-day AWS cloud infrastructure operations across development and production environments
• Assist with provisioning, updating, and maintaining AWS resources
• Troubleshoot EC2, IAM, VPC networking, and cloud storage issues
• Assist with patching, upgrades, and general platform maintenance
• Troubleshoot and/or perform Linux/UNIX Systems Administration tasks as needed – both on-premises and cloud
• Implement and maintain infrastructure – both on-premises and cloud
• Support Ansible and Jenkins pipelines used for infrastructure and platform automation
• Write and maintain scripts using Bash, Python, YAML and other
• Provide support for HPC related tasks
• Perform testing, validation, and operational support during migration phases
• Use AbbVie values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration

Qualifications - Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree with 4 years experience; Masters Degree with 3 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field
• Experience implementing and managing orchestration and automation tools or platforms (Jenkins, Git Flow)
• Experience with containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, YAML)
• Experience managing Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu)
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
• Experience implementing and maintaining CloudFormation stacks
• Experience implementing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, JIRA, CloudFormation, Terraform)

Optional Experiences that are a plus:

• Exposure to HPC environments, Slurm, or AWS ParallelCluster
• Experience with high performance and cloud storage solutions, including WEKA, Amazon EBS, EFS, and FSx Lustre
• Experience supporting research, scientific, or data-intensive computing workloads
• Experience working in a Data Science, Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical Industry
• Experience working in regulated or enterprise IT environments

Skills/Abilities/Competencies Required:

• Ability to work independently, multitask and prioritize work requirements with minimal supervision
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and developing flexible solutions to meet evolving requirements
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, application analysts, managers and IT
• Good presentation, training and documentation skills are essential
• Ability to successfully collaborate with others of different skill sets, backgrounds and levels within and external to the organization

Significant Work Activities

• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
  Travel Possibly, 5 % of the Time
• Job Type: Contract – local, but open to remote for the right candidate
• Schedule: Full-time
• 3-5 years of experience