Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Development at Abbott Laboratories

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our San Diego, CA location on site. The position of Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Development is within our Infectious Diseases business unit in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics division on site daily.

The position of Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Development is within our Infectious Diseases business unit in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics division, located in San Diego, California.  This role will be the technical lead for the cloud platform development team which designs and implements cloud solutions supporting our existing and next generation of portable diagnostics platforms. This role will be responsible for delivering the implemented solutions and leading the development of QMS deliverables. The right candidate for this position will be an experienced engineer who has demonstrated success designing, documenting, and implementing high-quality software on the cloud such as Azure, etc. 

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and implement processes and tools that support the deployment of software releases to the cloud.

• Responsible on keeping track and updating Service Principles and Certificates across all the environments including Production.

• Responsible for the Infrastructure as Code structure and setting up idempotency of the process.

• Responsible for build automated CI\CD pipelines to improve environment creation and repeatability.

• Setup alerts and monitor Cloud Production environments to maintain stability of the environment.

• Fix defects found during the implementation process or reported by the software test team.

• Support software process definition and improvement initiatives. Support release process.

• Working with the team to promote and uphold software development quality standards such as build success\deployment success, proper documentation, scalable design, code security, etc.

• Lead team to design, build, and implement pipelines for supporting cloud solutions.

• Drive level of effort estimates to support planning activities.

• Lead team to provide microservices design specifications.

• Manage a team of platform engineers located onsite and offshore.

• Fix defects found during the implementation process or reported by the software test team.

• Support software process definition and improvement initiatives and release process.

• Demonstrate commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of Alere Quality Management System per ISO, FDA, and other regulatory agencies.

• Understand and recognize the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job; has awareness of device defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification and validation, manufacturing and testing activities

• Exhibit professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices; build productive internal/external working relationships

• Carry out duties in compliance with established business policies

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, EE or equivalent

• 8+ years of experience in designing, developing and creating cloud infrastructure along with data pipelines, data warehouse applications and analytical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, EE or equivalent

• 10+ years of platform or DevOps and developing cloud based solutions5+ years of experience in designing, developing and creating cloud infrastructure along with data pipelines, data warehouse applications and analytical solutions.

• Azure Certification such as DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, etc.

• Strong hands on experience with Terraform Infrastructure as a Code.

• Hands on experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines.

• Hands on experience with building/debugging containerized solutions such as Kubernetes and Docker.

• Hands on experience with Azure Kubernetes Services.

• Experience with secure coding best practices and methodologies, vulnerability scans, threat modeling, and cyber-risk assessments.

• Deep cloud domain expertise in: architecture, cloud networking, big data, microservice architectures, cloud technologies, data security and privacy, tools, and testing

• Experience with MongoDB and Cosmos DB is a plus.

• Experience in Python is a plus.

• Experience in big data solutions and analytics; using BI tools like Power BI is a plus.

• Experience with design and implementation of high-availability systems: hot spare/failover mechanisms, load balancers, distributed systems, stateless communication protocols, scalable data stores

• Familiarity with operational support of a high-availability system, including data and performance metrics, techniques for identifying anomalous behavior, defining alert conditions

• Experience with implementation and integration of network features, network interfaces, REST API’s, and interface protocols

• Experience with PKI, SSL, TLS, HTTPS, SSH and secure memory management.

• Able to take complex designs from concept to implementation with minimal supervision.

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $125,700.00 – $251,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.