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Job Title

Cloud SRE Manager

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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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

We currently have an opportunity for a Cloud SRE Manager in Sylmar, CA or Sunnyvale, CA in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Lead a platform focused SRE team and be responsible for the reliability of the platform. This is a hands-on role, to improve and establish SRE practices for services hosted on Azure Cloud and applications hosted within Abbott datacenters. You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who thrive in a fast-paced workplace, where drive and collaboration are the keys to success. As a leader, you will be responsible for coaching and mentoring team members, helping them achieve service goals, and build career paths. It’s imperative for the leader to empower the team by providing appropriate context and timely feedback. This is a broad cross-organization role with high-visibility, collaborating with multiple teams. Collaboration with various teams is critical to success.

About the team:

The DevOps/SRE Engineering team provides a fast-paced, dynamic work environment where engineers work closely to provide software services to patients and physicians. You will collaborate with other engineers in Architecture, Development, IT, Systems engineering teams, Customer support to continue finding new areas that can be improved by bringing a SRE mindset to product offerings. We’re passionate about building products that improve the quality of life for patients. We like to learn along the way and depend on everyone’s input to help us grow as a team. Employees act on their strong desire to make a difference, partner with others and put ideas into action. Employees are engaged by a work culture that is team oriented, fast-paced and progressive.

What You’ll Work On

• The leader will lead a platform focused SRE team and be responsible for the reliability of the applications hosted within Abbott data centers and Azure cloud.

• Implement structured engineering and operations processes.

• Lead the team in daily agile SRE practices, ensuring proper team focus on priorities, achievements, and deliverables.

• As a leader, you are responsible for coaching and mentoring team members, helping them achieve service goals, and build career paths.

• Optimize cloud data workloads for security, cost, performance, latency, reliability, and availability.

• Drive incident management and post-mortem analysis

• Support audits and compliance, adhering to applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Implement effective standards, methodologies, and processes, driving change proactively as appropriate for continuous improvement.

• The ability to interact and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with customers, vendors, partners, and all members of staff is required.

• Continual knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of junior staff is also expected.

• Effectively communicates and partners with cross-functional teams, customers, and stakeholders.

• Build trust with stakeholders and partner through diplomacy, discussion, and follow-through.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years overall experience to include 3+ years' experience building and leading engineering teams, ideally SRE and 6+ years in critical, large scale distributed systems experience, combining Software development and operations.

• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts, with a keen eye for continuous improvements

• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of working with multi-functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management, influencing decision making.

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• 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 (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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 $109,300.00 – $218,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com