Senior Engineer, Technology I (Platform Administrator - Linux)

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Work collaboratively with technology and business groups to conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, and technology solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems. Investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Install, operationalize, tune, support, and upgrade infrastructure platforms including vector, graph, and nosql environments.  Provide technical leadership by defining best practices, designing high availability deployment patterns, defining backup, disaster recovery strategies, and leading 24x7 operations team.  Optimize infrastructure costs while balancing performance requirements in AWS deployments.  Develop productive collaborations and communications with other groups across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, or technology solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; Routinely demonstrate initiative and creativity in developing technology solutions.
• Serve as technical expert or lead projects/programs and technical staff to develop, test and implement significant new products, or operational improvements or devise new approaches to problems at the division/business unit.
• Analyzes and resolves technical problems using analytical problem solving methods/techniques and associated tools/devices.
• Contribute to advancement of own function by studying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and computing equipment; participate in educational opportunities and professional organizations.
• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.
• Highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor. Accountable for total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control.
• May initiate new areas of investigation that are meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a scientific or business activity.
• Provides technical leadership and mentors and consults with less experienced staff in in planning, methods, procedures, standards and best practices.
• Maintains relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors in accordance with Abbvie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 5 years’ experience; PhD with 0 years’ experience.
• Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills
• Experience writing detailed technical documents and instructions
• Experience with implementation, installation, administration, upgrade, performance tuning, troubleshooting, backup, and recovery of Linux based environments.
• Experience troubleshooting network related application issues, an understanding of load balancers, and web application firewalls.
• Experience building docker images using Dockerfiles, managing/administering containers, and using docker-compose for orchestration
• Experience  implementing  access controls using LDAP authentication,  SSO, and MFA
• Understanding encryption measures to protect sensitive data
• Strong UNIX coding/scripting skills used to automate administrative activities
• AWS architecture knowledge including experience tuning EBS IOPS and Throughput parameters
• Ability to periodically work nights or weekends (On-Call)

Preferred:

• Experience with managing Neo4j, Elasticsearch, MarkLogic, Amazon EKS, and Dataiku
• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of graph and vector databases
• Experience in Health Care / Regulated Environment

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