Senior Platform Engineer
Abbott · Hyderabad
Collected role description
<p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">Working at Abbott</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:inherit">At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You will also have access to:</span></p><p> </p><ul><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">About Lingo</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:inherit">Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers such as glucose, ketones, and lactate to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.</span></p><p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">THE OPPORTUNITY</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:inherit">As Staff Platform Engineer at Lingo, you will spend meaningful time building and operating alongside your team, taking ownership of technically complex platform work while also being responsible for the day-to-day allocation of work, tracking and providing feedback to Platform Engineers at the India location. You set the technical standard your team works to, you unblock them when problems are hard, and you make sure they have the clarity, context, and support to do their best work.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:inherit">Azure is our primary cloud platform. You will bring strong hands-on Azure expertise and apply it across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices, while developing your two direct reports to grow in the same disciplines.</span></p><p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">What You'll Work On</span></b></p><p> </p><ul><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Own the day-to-day work allocation for your team, ensuring engineers have well-scoped, meaningful work that matches their skills and develops their capabilities.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Support your team through technical challenges, unblocking complex problems and guiding engineers toward solutions rather than solving everything yourself.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Build, provision, and maintain Lingo's cloud infrastructure on Azure, taking ownership of technically complex or high-risk platform work alongside your team.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Own and evolve key areas of Lingo's infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform or Bicep, including module design, standards, and code review for your team's contributions.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Design and maintain CI/CD pipeline architecture for Lingo's engineering teams, defining deployment patterns, environment promotion gates, and release automation standards that your team implements and operates.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Lead from the front on SRE practices, contributing to SLO and SLI definitions, designing alerting and monitoring configurations, and driving post-incident reviews that generate real engineering improvements.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Build and maintain observability tooling across Lingo's production environment, covering distributed tracing, log pipelines, and metrics collection, ensuring engineering teams have the visibility they need.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Contribute to architecture and design discussions with the Platform Engineer Lead and Senior Manager, providing practical input grounded in your day-to-day operational experience.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Document infrastructure, runbooks, and operational processes in a way that supports knowledge sharing across Lingo's globally distributed engineering team spanning the US, Spain, and India.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Identify process, tooling, and reliability improvements within your team's domain and drive them to completion with appropriate prioritization and stakeholder communication.</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">Required Qualifications:</span></b></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering with hands-on work in a production environment.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Strong hands-on Azure expertise, with production experience across Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, and security services.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Solid infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent, including designing and reviewing reusable modules in a team environment.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, including deployment automation and environment promotion.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Working understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, alerting strategies, on-call practices, and incident response and post-incident review workflows.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Experience with observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing in a cloud-native environment.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Experience implementing cloud security controls including identity and access management, network security configurations, and secrets management.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across a globally distributed engineering team spanning multiple time zones.</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><b><span style="font-size:inherit">Preferred Qualifications</span></b></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Experience with Azure-native services such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Azure Security Center in a production context.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Experience supporting IoT, biosensor, or real-time consumer health data platforms where data reliability and low-latency processing are critical.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Familiarity with AIOps tooling and AI-driven observability practices, including anomaly detection and automated alerting.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Background in MLOps infrastructure, including model serving, feature stores, and pipeline orchestration on cloud platforms.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Familiarity with cloud security and compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI in an engineering context.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:inherit">Prior experience in a consumer technology company or high-growth digital health environment.</span></li></ul>
Collected minimum qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Collected experience requirement
10+ years