Principal Eng, DevOps

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will use your expertise to manage build systems and design software for innovative medical equipment. These tasks may include:
  • Utilizing your DevOps understanding to architect storage repositories, create build pipelines, and utilize automated testing and code analysis tools for software systems
  • Working cross functionally to understand user needs for new and existing products.
  • Providing support with technical expertise across different medical products for new software features or functions.
  • Strong documentation skills to support documentation of the design and interface for software.
  • Implement new features and functions on these products.
  • Troubleshooting activities.
• On development teams, you will play an important part in designing and implementing portions of software and builds for new devices or applications, assisting with determining project schedules, and in supporting the engineering team technically with your expertise.
• Understanding of embedded software development, object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, test driven development, and configuration management to ensure you meet the needs of the overall project.
• Responsible for software related documentation generation and will also perform work breakdown and detailed estimates for tasks.
• Work with other developers and DevOps professionals to identify new methodologies, processes, or tools associated with development pipelining.
• Provide administration for critical software development tools that reside outside of IT responsibility.
• Coordinate closely with developers and IT representatives to ensure consistent development and test infrastructure.
• Leads and coach team members.
• Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately escalating process and product quality gaps.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering discipline or equivalent is required. 
• 5+ years’ experience in a DevOps role; especially in establishing and leading DevOps practices for one or more teams.
• Extensive experience with Virtual Machines in an R&D environment.
• Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with any Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Azure CLI or Batch files
• C++, C#, Python, Java, Cyber Security background, and medical device development experiences are a plus.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process is desired.
• Experience with Active Directory domain administration including group policies and certificate authorities is desired.
• Understanding of code signing certificates is desired.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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