Site Reliability Engineer

AbbVie

. Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve critical technical problems for Allergan Aesthetics .

Posted 10/14/2026full-timeRemote • Illinois • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $141,500 - $268,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in driving reliability and operational excellence for large-scale public-facing software, with a strong focus on observability, incident management, and automation. Proficient in using Terraform and Kubernetes for infrastructure management and capable of mentoring engineering teams in best practices.

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SLO/Error Budget ManagementObservability Platforms (Datadog)Terraform Infrastructure-as-CodeKubernetes on AWSScripting/Programming (Python, Go)

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Hard Skills

SLO/Error Budget ProgramsIncident ManagementPerformance TuningCapacity PlanningLoad TestingResilience/Chaos TestingAutomationRoot Cause AnalysisMetrics AnalysisAlert Design

Soft Skills

Technical Thought LeadershipKnowledge SharingContinuous LearningCollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

TerraformKubernetesAWSDatadogAgentic AI Tools

Industry Keywords

Operational ExcellenceProduction ReadinessSelf-Healing SystemsService ComplianceScalability Standards

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKubernetesPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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 testing and release procedures
Identify and eliminate toil through automation, self-healing systems, and improved observability
Gather and analyze operating system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding
Improve platform reliability through Terraform infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes configuration
Own and evolve incident response, including severity definitions, escalation paths, and postmortems
Participate in on-call rotations and provide hands-on incident support
Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues and drive blameless root cause analysis
Champion reliability, scalability, and security standards across services and the product platform
Partner on architecture decisions and assess reliability risks before launch
Define and maintain reliability standards and track service compliance
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

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k)
Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs
Remote work option
5% travel