Network Engineer, Load Balancing

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As an Network Engineer in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

***This a hybrid role based in Lake County***

Purpose

Technical expert that will independently identify, engineer, and optimize new data, software, or technology solutions that address critical business needs. Continuously seek to improve existing methods and processes. Read and adapt literature and publicly available information to accomplish assignments. Demonstrate proficiency in a broad range of techniques and methods for information technology engineering, including software development, data warehousing, statistics, machine learning, and/or technology infrastructure (including servers, storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments). Technology Engineers will be aligned to a specific area: Information, Software, Data, or Infrastructure.  This role will be focused on infrastructure reporting into the network engineering team with a strong focus on load balancing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand the broad objectives of the project as well as his/her role in achieving those objectives and modify approach when required.
• Escalates open issues to ensure execution success and keeps stakeholders informed through effective verbal and written communication.
• Learn, understand and master new methods and technologies, and act as a resource or mentor for others.
• Effectively organize and present project objectives and progress.
• Contribute to technical publications and presentations.
• Obtain estimates/quotes from vendors and provide as input into overall project time and cost estimates.
• Maintains relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors in accordance with AbbVie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
• Produces and maintains required technical documentation associated with work product.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

• Bachelors degree in relevant field and at least 5 years relevant experience, Masters degree in relevant field and at least 4 years experience.
• 3+ years experience with load balancing technologies (F5, Citrix Netscaler, cloud native) from an engineering and design perspective
• Design experience for large global scale enterprise WAN, LAN, WLAN, firewalls, load balancing and cloud communications for 10,000+ users
• Defines, plans and designs innovative enterprise Network infrastructure solutions
• Expertise with F5 load balancers to include troubleshooting, configuring, upgrading, maintaining, and monitoring an enterprise F5 load balancer network architecture
• Requires demonstrated abilities to administer F5 LTM/GTM/ASM/WAF solutions and a strong understanding of I-Rules
• Ability to collaboratively work with application owners around application availability and design regarding load-balancing technologies
• Possess a working understanding of cloud designs and architectures; prefer AWS and Azure
• Experience with one or more network automation tools and/or programming languages
• Experience in layer 3 and layer 2 switching, HSRP, EIGRP, BGP, port-channels, SIP, QoS and LAN/WAN standards
• Understanding of SD-WAN and Wi-Fi technologies in an enterprise environment
• Consistently deliver projects in a timely manner. Perform routine and complex tasks competently and independently and generate reliable and consistent results.
• Effectively organize and present project objectives and progress

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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