STAFF SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

$109,300 - $218,500/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Pleasanton, CA

Full-time - Senior

Pleasanton, CA

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in establishing and executing a site reliability strategy for the Heart Failure Division Medical Device Mobile and Cloud Digital Software portfolio. This senior position involves partnering with Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver resilient software solutions, implementing SRE processes, and influencing change within the organization. The role requires a strong software engineering background and expertise in SRE principles to enhance the reliability of critical software systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enable a culture of SRE in software development, delivery, and operational practices.
• Implement a comprehensive SRE strategy and roadmap in partnership with the HF Digital team.
• Identify critical KPIs and metrics and execute on the SRE roadmap.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams and business stakeholders to establish and evolve reliability goals using SLIs/SLOs.
• Automate manual processes via scripting and tools, creating automated regression and sustaining test suites.
• Work closely with Development, Network, Infrastructure, and Requirements teams on critical issues, proposing and implementing resolutions.
• Evaluate current service tiers, reliability standards, and practices to define steps for continuous improvement.
• Participate in blameless postmortems on critical incidents to help teams learn and prevent future issues.
• Build robust CI/CD pipelines using on-premises and cloud tools.
• Partner with customer support for rapid issue resolution.
• Monitor social signals for site reliability and app store mentions, ensuring rapid detection and root cause determination.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field; Master's Degree in a technical discipline is preferred.
• Minimum 12+ years of experience, with at least 10 years developing large-scale digital software systems.
• Exposure to cloud development and deployment technologies, including containerization and multi-cloud configurations.
• Deep understanding of DevOps and SRE best practices.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Helm, Chef, or Terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Native applications.
• Experience managing application configurations using tools like Ansible or Chef.
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring tools like Grafana or JMeter.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Shell, Python, Ruby, Golang, or Java.
• Experience with GIT, Jira, Confluence, and similar collaboration tools.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities
• Free medical coverage via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement and student debt program
• Recognition as a great place to work globally
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives