Lead Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes, Regulated Health

Abbott; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage in HIP PPO

Retirement savings plan with employer

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU higher education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native platforms for digital health, medical software, data, and AI/ML solutions. You will lead engineering excellence across AWS, Kubernetes, automation, cybersecurity, and DevOps, while mentoring teams and staying hands-on with platform design.

The role emphasizes platform standards, IaC, and CI/CD in a regulated healthcare context, with collaboration across Cybersecurity, Privacy, Quality, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 16+ years of experience in cloud architecture and enterprise-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience designing secure, highly available, scalable distributed systems.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing engineering decisions.
• Proficiency in Java, C#, C++, Python, NodeJS.
• Strong experience with DevOps/CI-CD, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, implementation, and operation of cloud-native platforms on AWS.
• Design and operate Kubernetes platforms using Amazon EKS.
• Define platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices to automate infrastructure and application delivery.
• Develop reusable platform services, automation, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Design secure cloud solutions with identity, access control, encryption, and secrets management.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Privacy, Quality, and Regulatory teams to ensure compliance and audit readiness.
• Drive reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence across platform services.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical planning, and engineering governance.
• Support development of regulated healthcare and medical software solutions.
• Comply with FDA regulations, quality processes, cybersecurity standards, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

Skills

AWS

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

IaC

GitOps

ArgoCD/Flux

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native platforms for digital health, medical software, data, and AI/ML solutions. You will lead engineering excellence across AWS, Kubernetes, automation, cybersecurity, and DevOps, while mentoring teams and staying hands-on with platform design.

The role emphasizes platform standards, IaC, and CI/CD in a regulated healthcare context, with collaboration across Cybersecurity, Privacy, Quality, and