Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Spec, IT (DevSecOps Engineer) Kidney Co 

Summary 

• This is an exciting time in the Digital Products Team, that architects, builds and maintains Baxter’s Customer facing Web, Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.  
• We offer the chance to work in a global environment focused on innovation and cutting-edge technologies. 
• The DevOps Engineer will join a highly dynamic team, to support and automate the development, build, test and deployment of mission critical connected healthcare systems. 
• DevOps Engineers at Baxter play a key role in identifying and provisioning infrastructure as code components that run medical application workloads.  Solutions must enable agility, availability, quality, and should be cost effective. 
  

Responsibilities 

• Track work using Kanban or Agile Boards. 
• Architect cloud-based infrastructures that host commercial applications via Infrastructure as Code. 
• Evaluate and implement static analysis tools that identify vulnerabilities, licensing, and compliance issues long before they impact production systems. 
• Work closely with engineers and testers to identify, document and prioritize solutions that exemplify continuous improvement. 
• Implement reusable, automated solutions to common engineering operations tasks.  
• Implement Continuous Integration solutions that produce a variety of packages and binaries. 
• Implement Continuous Deployment solutions that target development environments. 
• Deploy mission critical systems in production environments. 
• Qualify the installation and operation of new and updated systems. 
• Drive efficiency and standardization in the technologies, tools and techniques used by the team. 
• Identify potential performance bottlenecks in legacy and cloud-native systems. 
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including Scrum and Delivery teams to meet business goals. 
• Refine the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) to eliminate non-value-added practices. 
• Form partnerships with the team and balance uneven workloads across the team to hit key project milestones. 
  

Skills & Qualifications 

DevOps as a practice is interdisciplinary. While experience in both infrastructure and application architecture is desired, applicants with a job history that aligns to a single discipline are invited to apply, if the following requirements are met. 

General: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required 
• Overall experience required: 1-2 years Infrastructure Architecture and/or Application Architecture 
• Must demonstrate the ability to prioritize and organize work  
• Must be a self-motivator and team player 
• Passionate about continuous learning and keeping up with latest technologies 
• Must be willing to work on a distributed team 

Application Architecture: 

• 2-4 years’ experience 
• Experience in object-oriented programming 
• Experience with Spring Java Development, Python, and Ruby 
• Familiarity with dependency management software (e.g., Maven and Gradle) 
• Experience with source configuration management systems (e.g., GIT, SVN, TFS, etc.) 
• Experience with JMS and JPA 
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g., jQuery, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, PhoneGap, Cordova) 
• Experience with JavaScript processing utilities (e.g., npm, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt) 
• Experience with linting tools (e.g., ESLint, JSLint) 
• Experience with JavaScript testing tools (e.g., Jasmine, Jest) 
• Experience with system testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Mercury, LoadRunner, TestComplete, Protractor, Postman) 
  

Infrastructure Architecture: 

• Working knowledge of networking, security, and virtualization 
• Experience with subnetting 
• Experience with Active Directory 
• Working knowledge of domain controller and DNS server configuration 
• Experience configuring various hardware and software firewalls 
• Experience with Linux (RedHat, Centos, or Ubuntu) and Windows system administration 
• Experience with administering Apache, Tomcat, Liferay Portal, Oracle and IBM MQ Servers 
• Experience with package managers (e.g., apt, yum, Homebrew, NuGet) 
• Experience with Bash and PowerShell scripting 
• Experience with runtime configuration management tools: 
  • Required: Chef 
  • Desired: Packer, Terraform 
• Experience with CI/CD tools: 
  • Required: Jenkins, Ant 
  • Desired: Git Webhooks 
• Experience with various PaaS and IaaS solutions: 
  • Required: AWS, Kubernetes/Docker 
  • Desired: CloudFoundry 

At Baxter, we offer a dynamic and future focused work environment offering workplace flexibility, additional annual leave and a strong value driven culture.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission

Reasonable Accommodations

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