Cloud Engineer at Abbott in Remote

Summary: Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Cloud Engineer will work on a Software as a Service cloud platform, designing and implementing services and components, collaborating with partners to develop APIs, and ensuring the performance and security of cloud solutions for medical devices. Responsibilities: - Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms - 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 are highly maintainable - Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions - 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 our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes more efficient - 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 - Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code reviews - Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery - Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate Required Qualifications: - Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field - Software development experience, ideally in Go but also in Python, Rust, Java, Spark, or C#/.NET. 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 - Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular unit testable code - Understands the principles of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs - Understands the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes - Experience with Git for source control on a collaborative project - Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team - Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills - Experience with open-source, software development and system engineering Preferred Qualifications: - Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices - Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor - Understanding and familiarity of Test Driven Development (TDD) - Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql - Experience working in an agile environment - Practical Knowledge of Linux Required Skills: Go, Software development, APIs Important Skills: Docker, Git, SQL, Agile Nice-to-Have Skills: Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Linux, Communication skills Benefits: Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year, An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution, Tuition reimbursement, The Freedom 2 Save student debt program, FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.