Cloudflare Technology Engineer II

Location: Mettawa, IL, us

Company Description

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.

Job Description

​​We are seeking a skilled cloudflare engineer to design, optimize and maintain our global edge network and security configurations. In this role you will work closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure our applications are fast, secure, resilient and highly available. You will be responsible for managing cloudflare services including CDN, WAF, Workers, Load Balancing and DNS​ 

***This is a hybrid role based in Lake County, IL (T, W, TH)***

Responsibilities

• ​Design, configure and maintain Cloudflare services such as CDN, WAF, Bot Management, Rate Limiting, Access, Argo, Load Balancing and SSL/TLS 

• ​Manage Cloudflare DNS, including advanced routing and failover configurations 

• ​Implement and optimize performance features such as caching rules and network optimizations 

• ​Monitor and tune WAF rules, security events, firewall policies and bot mitigation strategies 

• ​Collaborate with the security team to address threats, perform incident response and enhance security posture. 

• ​Build and maintain infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for cloudflare using Terraform, API scripting or CI/CD pipelines 

• ​Automate monitoring, reporting and configuration tasks 

• ​Conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting across the edge network 

• ​Provide documentation, training and guidance on Cloudflare tooling and architecture 

• ​Monitor and troubleshoot Cloudflare-related issue impacing performance, latency, routing or security 

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in relevant field and at least 5 years relevant experience OR Masters degree in relevant field and at least 4 years experience.

• ​​2-5 years of experience working with CDN platforms (Cloudflare experience strongly preferred) 

• Experience with Cloudflare Magic Transit and Magic Firewall preferred

• Experience with automation and IaC tools (terraform preferred) 

• ​Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) 

• ​Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills 

• ​Strong understanding of: 

  • ​HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, caching strategies 
  • ​DNS, networking, and routing concepts 
  • ​Web security fundamentals (WAF rules, DDoS mitigation) 

Additional Information

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

• 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. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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