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Abbott Kubernetes Cloud Engineer - DevOps in Madrid, Spain
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
The Opportunity
Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes?
Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. The candidate should have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. Highly sought-after qualities include versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
A company 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
What you´ll do
Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms
Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform
Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems
Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable
Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
Collaborate with both internal and external team members to to shape and define API contracts
Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team
Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components
Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
Software development experience with Go. Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices. Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks.
Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in an agile environment
Practical Knowledge of Linux
Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
Experience with open-source software development
Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof
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.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com