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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.

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Medical Device IT supporting R&D IT.

As the Sr. Systems Analyst , you’ll have the chance to you’ll have the chance to create technical/functional specifications, support new and existing applications and processes to enable development teams to release medical device software and systems more rapidly. You’ll work collaboratively with other IT operational and software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems/platforms and support client utilization. You will also be responsible for automating and streamlining our operations and processes, along with building and maintaining tools for deployment, and monitoring setup for operational use.

What You’ll Work On

• Manage and enhance CI/CD infrastructure and tools to improve the development workflow for numerous different development teams

• Provide technical support to Developers, Testers and Engineers on company supported software

• Administer Jenkins suite of applications and troubleshoot issues in development tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Nexus, Confluence, Coverity, and AccuRev.

• Responsible for building, architecting and developing IT solutions

• Experience in creating, managing and troubleshooting shell scripts

• Experience upgrading applications, server migrations, cybersecurity threats and monitoring, and penetration testing

• Create and present system design diagrams and technical implementation details to engineers and partner IT teams

• Collaborate with partner IT staff to improve processes and infrastructure setup. Identify manual processes within the organization and automate them

• Contribute to end-user training as needed and be comfortable providing day-to-day support

• Communicate trends and new developments in technology (cybersecurity, AI, and monitoring) to advise on current state best practices for implementing solutions

• Communicates effectively with management to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information systems

• Conform to and enforce planned work priority in the face of continued interruptions

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, adheres to operating procedures, processes, and completes task assignments within the assigned sprint

• Works with infrastructure engineers and other application teams to implement solutions that provide excellent access, throughput, availability, security and cost-effectiveness, while maintaining simplicity and industry best practices

• Develop necessary documentation, testing and change control procedures to satisfy internal product validation and update yearly for audit compliance

• Maintain accurate current state application architecture diagrams, documentation, and other data sources in a consistent and replicable manner

• Automate and codify supporting security systems in all phases of the SLDC

• Develops detailed implementation, test and roll-back procedures for planned changes and follows code promotion model utilizing change request approvals

• Extensive experience with administering R&D applications such as Repository management and version control applications (such as Bitbucket or AccuRev), CI/CD applications (such as Jenkins), Defect tracking tools (such as ClearQuest or Jira), ALM solutions (such as DOORS, PTC Windchill RV&S, PTC Codebeamer or Polarion), Code Repositories (such as Nexus) and Static Analysis tools (such as Coverity)

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience

• Must be familiar with Agile software development methodologies and how DevOps practices are incorporated to improve delivery speed. Knowledge of JIRA sprints is helpful

• Familiar with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and its integration functions with Azure

• Experience with Deploying applications and infrastructure to Azure cloud environments

• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and source control applications

• Adept at multiple programming/Scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, C#

• Experience with Azure cloud platform (Azure certification a plus)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with automated testing and test-driven development practices

• Excellent understanding of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef

• Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows administration

• Excellent communication and customer service skills. Able to bridge communication between technical areas and business areas for a full and complete understanding of expectations

• Must be a self-starter and possess good analytical skills

• Comfortable partnering with engineers to understand and solve problems that will enable you to deliver reliable software faster

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment

• Ability to travel approximately 5%, including internationally

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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 and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $83,600.00 – $167,200.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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