Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Abbott

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

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Above market

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This role $223k
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This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$223,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $223k versus about $187k 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 90 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $99,300–$198,700 across 89 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering joins the Lingo team to lead a multi-disciplinary group of platform, DevOps, and SRE engineers supporting a 24/7 consumer health platform. This leader manages people operations, including hiring and development, while overseeing the reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of the cloud environment. Key responsibilities include designing Azure infrastructure, implementing infrastructure-as-code, managing CI/CD pipelines, and establishing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response protocols. The role requires expertise in SRE principles like SLOs and error budgets to manage high-availability systems. Technical requirements include proficiency with Azure services, SQL, NoSQL, data lakes, and Blob Storage. The candidate will ensure compliance with standards such as HIPAA and GDPR while managing the infrastructure for complex biosensor data pipelines and real-time analytics to solve challenges in processing millions of daily sensor readings.

What you'll do

  • Lead, mentor, and manage a team of platform, DevOps, and SRE engineers to support a 24/7 consumer health platform.
  • Oversee the design, provisioning, scaling, and cost optimization of cloud infrastructure on Azure.
  • Establish and enforce cloud architecture standards, including infrastructure-as-code and best practices for data services.
  • Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with PCI, PHI, HIPAA, and GDPR standards.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities across all production environments.
  • Manage the DevOps function by owning CI/CD pipeline infrastructure and deployment automation tools.
  • Implement end-to-end observability including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics for engineering teams.
  • Represent platform engineering in leadership discussions to influence roadmap and architecture decisions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience with direct line management responsibility.
  • Hands-on technical expertise to lead architecture discussions, infrastructure design reviews, and incident analysis.
  • Deep experience with Azure cloud services including provisioning, scaling, security, and cost management at production scale.
  • Proven experience running 24/7 monitoring, alerting, and on-call operations for high-availability platforms.
  • Strong understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling and modern CI/CD pipeline management.

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