DevOps Engineer

Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Sylmar, CA

Duration: 8 Months

100% Onsite

Responsibilities

• Administer self-hosted Kubernetes clusters, including lifecycle management, upgrades, node maintenance, and workload troubleshooting
• Assess and implement Kubernetes RBAC, auditing existing roles and bindings against least privilege standards
• Maintain and extend our Ansible automation, which drives cluster provisioning and configuration management across the environment
• Administer on-premises Azure DevOps Server, including pipeline design and maintenance, agent pools, project administration, and permissions configuration
• Build and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines end to end, deploying into the on-prem Kubernetes environment with integrated Harbor image workflows
• Administer our on-prem Harbor registry, including project configuration, image scanning, vulnerability policy enforcement, and retention
• Manage TLS certificates within the clusters, including issuance, rotation, and renewal automation via cert-manager or equivalent
• Perform Azure administration and cost management, producing spend forecasts and optimization recommendations leadership can act on
• Conduct security operations, including least privileged access assessments across Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and Azure, and vulnerability remediation informed by Harbor scan results and CIS Kubernetes benchmarks
• Maintain and extend dashboards and alerting in our observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry) and use it for day-to-day troubleshooting
• Provide direct support to developers and users, including onboarding, access troubleshooting, and process documentation

Required Qualification

• Proven hands-on experience administering on-premises, self-hosted Kubernetes clusters. Cloud-managed Kubernetes experience alone (AKS, EKS, GKE) will not translate to this environment
• Strong Ansible experience, including playbook and role development and maintaining established automation
• Experience administering on-premises Azure DevOps Server, including pipelines, agents, and permissions
• Kubernetes RBAC implementation and access control assessment experience
• TLS certificate management within Kubernetes (cert-manager or equivalent)
• Azure administration experience, including cost analysis and projection
• Security operations experience, including least privilege assessments and vulnerability remediation

Preferred Quakifications

• Terraform experience, as future adoption is under consideration
• Azure Key Vault, particularly secrets integration with pipelines and workloads
• Identity federation with Azure AD / Entra ID across Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and supporting services
• Harbor registry administration
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry
• Certifications such as CKA or AZ-400

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

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, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.