Principal Platform Engineer

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'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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

• 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 using modern identity, access control, encryption, and secrets management practices.
• 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 activities.
• Support development of regulated healthcare and medical software solutions.
• Comply with FDA regulations, quality processes, cybersecurity standards, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

• Cloud & Platform Engineering • AWS
• Amazon EKS
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm
• Distributed Systems

• Infrastructure Automation • Terraform
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• GitOps
• ArgoCD or Flux

• DevOps • GitHub Enterprise
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Automated Testing
• Release Automation

• Security • AWS IAM
• OIDC Federation
• Workload Identity
• Secrets Management
• Container Security
• DevSecOps

• Leadership • Technical Strategy
• Architecture & Design Reviews
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Mentoring & Coaching
• Communication & Influencing

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• (16+ Bachelors OR 10+ Master's Degree) 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 relevant software and system development tools (e.g., Java, C#, C++, Python, NodeJS).
• Strong experience with DevOps/CI-CD, containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g., Terraform), and observability.

• Experience in healthcare, digital health, medical device, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience supporting AI/ML and data platform workloads.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, and DICOM.
• Experience designing and implementing secure cloud-native platforms.
• Experience supporting FDA-regulated software development environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, secure software development, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience supporting compliance initiatives and audits including: • ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• HIPAA / HITECH
• FedRAMP
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework

• AWS, Kubernetes, security, or cloud certifications preferred.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com 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. Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is

$130,700.00 - $261,300.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.