Dev Ops Manager, HF

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.

Job Title

Dev Ops Manager, HF

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 student debt program and 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 Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As a Service Dev Ops Manager, you will play a critical role in establishing and executing a support strategy for the Heart Failure Division Medical Device Mobile and Cloud Digital Software portfolio (both Class II and Class III). You will lead a team of engineers that partners with our frontline Service and Engineering teams in delivering solutions to customer problems.

You will need a strong software engineering background in a highly secured environment and have DevOps experience. You will need technical knowledge in highly complex and critical software systems. Managing escalations and expectations will be critical in the success of your role.  You will have demonstrated the ability to develop, communicate and execute your vision resulting in the adoption of practices and tooling that will help strengthen our position as the premier leader in Heart Failure medical devices.

 What You’ll Work On

• Development and execution of support based strategies for new product role out.
• Responsible for investigating and resolving escalated customer problems
• Establish a comprehensive support strategy and roadmap in partnership with the HF Digital team.
• Grow and manage a team to execute on the service roadmap, the design, development, and testing of select new products.
• Formulates business plans support cloud based products and services.
• Maintain knowledge of new trends and products in the appropriate markets.
• Evaluate the current tiers of service of our applications, reliability standards and practices to define steps to continuously improve on them.
• Participate in blameless postmortems on critical incidents and help teams use their learnings to better predict, detect and prevent future issues.
• Establish and lead a supported based community of practice and foster a culture of continuous improvement of system site performance and reliability. Share knowledge and lessons learned across the Digital organization
• Partner with the engineering support team for rapid resolution of issues
• Build a practice of rapid detection and root cause determination while keeping stakeholders informed. ​

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or relevant field.
• 8+ years work experience in Dev ops field.
• Previous team leader and supervisory experience.
• Exposure to cloud development and deployment technologies, including containerization, infrastructure as code, and multi-cloud configurations.
• Deep understanding of DevOps Best Practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in a technical field.
• Medical Devices class II/III experience.

* 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.

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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.