Site Reliability Engineer

AbbVie

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Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: North Chicago, IL
Salary: $96,500–$183,500 / yr
Posted: 42 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Jul 31, 2126
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k

This role $140k

$81k most similar roles pay here $240k

This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $145,375–$213,692 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

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About AbbVie

AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care. Its products include Humira, Skyrizi, and Rinvoq.

AbbVie currently has 297 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $109,500–$208,500 across 271 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer

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The Site Reliability Engineer joins the Cyber Security Engineering team to ensure production systems for security teams operate reliably within a hybrid on-premise and cloud-native environment. This role involves maintaining system architecture for performance and scalability, managing microservices and containerized applications, and automating configurations and deployments to reduce toil. The engineer will maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage observability tools by writing automation scripts and standardizing alerts, and participate in incident response root cause analysis. Key technologies include Linux and Windows environments, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and GitOps practices like ArgoCD or Helm. Required skills include proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with experience in CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Bamboo. The role focuses on securing distributed systems while promoting Agile and DevOps methodologies.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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Skills

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Docker Amazon ECS Terraform GitOps ArgoCD Helm Python Go Bash Git CI/CD Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Kafka Spark Hadoop Linux Windows

What you'll do

Maintain and improve system architecture to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.
Build, implement, and iterate on CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
Manage and deploy microservices and containerized applications across hybrid cloud environments.
Implement strong security controls across distributed systems and agents.
Automate configurations, deployments, and repetitive tasks to reduce operational toil.
Write automation scripts and standardize alerts for monitoring tools to manage observability.
Conduct root cause analysis and contribute to post-mortem reports during incident response.
Propose day-to-day operational improvements for internal toolsets and infrastructure.

What we're looking for

A Bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience, a Master's degree with 5 years of experience, or a PhD is required.
Foundational knowledge of cloud platform administration in AWS, GCP, or Azure is required.
Experience with or a strong understanding of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps is required.
Familiarity with running Docker workloads and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS is required.
A foundational understanding of observability pillars including metrics, logs, and tracing is required.
Proficiency in administering both Linux and Windows environments is required.
Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies is required.
Proficiency with scripting languages like Python, Go, or Bash and experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform are preferred.