Lead Site Reliability Engineer

🔥 49 minutes ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $141.5k - $268.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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AbbVie

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers and delivers innovative medicines and solutions to enhance lives. With a focus on addressing the world's toughest health challenges, AbbVie operates in over 175 countries, providing a wide range of products across areas like immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Committed to scientific innovation, AbbVie invests heavily in research and development, aiming to produce first-in-class medicines. The company also emphasizes workplace diversity, sustainability, and patient support initiatives, ensuring positive impact for both its patients and the broader community.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve critical technical problems for Allergan Aesthetics • Drive reliability, availability, and operational excellence for large-scale public-facing software • Own how production reliability is measured, protected, and improved • Define and champion SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget-based decision making • Own observability strategy across services, including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting • Lead capacity planning, load testing, and resilience/chaos testing • Establish production readiness reviews and improve services through testing and release procedures • Eliminate toil through automation, self-healing systems, and improved observability • Analyze operating system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding • Contribute platform reliability improvements using Terraform and Kubernetes configuration • Own and evolve incident response processes, including severity definitions, escalation paths, and postmortems • Participate in on-call rotations and provide hands-on incident support • Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, lead blameless root cause analysis, and track corrective actions • Champion reliability, scalability, and security standards across services and the product platform • Advise on strategic architecture decisions and reliability risks during Cloud Platform design reviews • Define and maintain reliability standards and track service compliance • Identify proven technologies and solutions for emerging challenges • Mentor senior-level DevOps and Software Engineers • Foster operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning • Provide technical thought leadership for strategic architecture, systems, and roadmap projects

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record running SLO/error budget programs and incident management for large-scale production systems • Deep experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog) and alert design • Working proficiency with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS • Comfortable reading, reviewing, and contributing infrastructure code • Strong scripting/programming skills (e.g., Python, Go) for automation and tooling • Preferred: Hands-on experience using or building agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, MCP-based integrations) to automate engineering or operational workflows, with appropriate guardrails and human oversight • Participation in on-call rotations • Travel up to 5% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) • Long-term incentive programs • Remote work availability • 5% travel