Senior Platform Engineer

Abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

HIP PPO medical plan

Strong retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Global employer recognition

Job summary

Abbott in Alameda, CA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and manage cloud infrastructure in Azure using IaC, and to develop robust CI/CD pipelines for a scalable health platform. You will contribute to SRE practices, implement security controls, and enhance observability while collaborating across time zones to deliver reliable software in production.

This onsite role requires strong communication and technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering with production experience.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud services and provisioning across compute, networking, storage, identity.
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep and reusable modules in a team.
• CI/CD design and operation with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of SRE including SLOs, alerting, on-call and incident response.
• Observability tooling for monitoring, logging and tracing in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, provision, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure using IaC, matching established patterns.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, frequent software delivery.
• Support SRE by defining SLOs/SLIs, alerts, and on-call participation.
• Monitor and respond to platform incidents with root cause analysis and remediation.
• Build observability dashboards, log pipelines, tracing, and metrics for services.
• Implement cloud security controls with IAM, network security, and compliance tooling.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and backups and collaborate across teams.
• Document infrastructure, runbooks, and deployment procedures for a distributed team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Platform engineering

Azure

IaC tooling

CI/CD pipelines

SRE principles

Observability

Cloud security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Description

At Lingo, we’re building a groundbreaking health platform that combines continuous biosensor data, real-time analytics, and personalized insights to help people live fuller, longer, and healthier lives. Our systems ingest millions of sensor readings daily, powering experiences for consumers and partners worldwide, with the reliability and scalability of cloud-native, enterprise-grade platforms.

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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• 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 Senior Platform Engineer position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo.

What You’ll Work On

• Build, provision, and maintain Lingo's cloud infrastructure on Azure using infrastructure-as-code tools, following established patterns and contributing to the improvement of those patterns over time.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Lingo's engineering teams, implementing deployment automation, environment promotion logic, and pipeline health monitoring that supports reliable and frequent software delivery.
• Support Lingo's SRE practice by contributing to SLO and SLI definitions, building and maintaining alerting rules, and participating in on-call rotations as part of a shared 24x7 operational coverage model.
• Monitor, triage, and respond to platform and infrastructure incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and implementing remediations that prevent recurrence.
• Build and maintain observability tooling across Lingo's production environment, including dashboards, log pipelines, distributed tracing integrations, and metrics collection for platform and application services.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls in collaboration with the Security team, including identity and access management, network security configurations, and compliance tooling for HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI requirements.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and backup processes, ensuring Lingo's production systems can be restored reliably and within committed recovery time objectives.
• Partner with product and feature engineering teams to support their deployment needs, onboard them to platform tooling, and reduce friction in the path from development to production.
• Document infrastructure, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational processes in a way that supports knowledge sharing across a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering with hands-on work in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud services, with practical experience provisioning and managing infrastructure across Azure compute, networking, storage, and identity services.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, preferably Terraform or Bicep, including writing, reviewing, and maintaining reusable modules in a team environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and operation, including experience building or maintaining pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, alerting, on-call practices, and incident response workflows.
• Experience with observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing in a cloud-native environment.
• Basic understanding of cloud security practices, including identity and access management, network security groups, and secrets management.
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure-native services such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, or Azure Security Center.
• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes or equivalent, including deployment, scaling, and operational management.
• Experience supporting IoT, biosensor, or real-time data platforms where operational reliability is critical.
• Exposure to SRE practices including error budget management, post-incident review processes, and toil reduction.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent in a production context.
• Familiarity with cloud security and compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI in an engineering context.
• Prior experience working in a globally distributed engineering team.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 – $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.