Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Abbott

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Work type
On-site
Location
Alameda, CA
Salary
$148,700–$297,300 / yr
Posted
37 days ago

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Similar $206k
This role $223k
$131k most similar roles pay here $315k

This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $176,450–$235,687 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $223k versus about $206k for comparable roles.

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About Abbott

Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that manufactures and markets a broad and diversified line of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Industry: Healthcare & Medical Devices

Abbott currently has 56 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $113,300–$226,700 across 54 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

The Senior Manager, Platform Engineering role at Abbott’s Lingo division involves leading and mentoring a team responsible for maintaining a globally distributed consumer biosensing platform on Azure. This senior-level position requires hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency. The candidate will design and manage the cloud environment, enforce security standards like PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR, and develop CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform and modern observability platforms. Essential skills include Azure expertise, incident management, and SRE principles, alongside strong leadership abilities to hire, train, and retain engineers while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence in a high-availability setting.

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of platform, DevOps, and SRE engineers to manage a 24/7 consumer health platform.
  • Design and evolve Lingo’s cloud infrastructure on Azure for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Define and enforce cloud architecture standards, including infrastructure-as-code practices and environment management.
  • Develop comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities for rapid issue resolution across production environments.
  • Implement end-to-end observability with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics to support high-quality software operations.
  • Ensure continuous hardening of cloud infrastructure to maintain compliance with privacy and governance standards.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Over 12 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering.
  • At least 3 years of direct line management experience with hiring, performance management, and career development.
  • Deep expertise in Azure cloud services including provisioning, scaling, security, and cost management.
  • Proven track record in establishing and running 24/7 monitoring and on-call operations for high-availability platforms.
  • Strong understanding and application of SRE principles such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management practices.

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