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At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs around 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

The Opportunity

Abbott in Cherrywood (Dublin) is looking for a SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Manager to join our Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Business. This is a newly created role for SRE professional that would be passionate to join a healthcare leader and shape the future of Health-Tech (also known as Med-Tech)

As a SRE Manager you will lead the SRE Team and be responsible for the reliability of the platform and product operations. This is a hands-on role, to improve and establish SRE practices for services hosted on Azure Cloud and applications hosted within Abbott datacenters. This is a broad cross-organization role with high-visibility, collaborating with multiple teams. Collaboration with various teams is critical to success.

You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who thrive in a fast-paced workplace, where drive and collaboration are the keys to success. As a leader, you will be responsible for coaching and mentoring team members, helping them achieve service goals, and build career paths.

About the team

The SRE Engineering team provides a fast-paced, dynamic work environment where engineers work closely to provide software services to patients and physicians. You will collaborate with other engineers in DevOps, SW Development, Systems engineering, Technical support to continue finding new areas that can be improved by bringing a SRE mindset to product offerings. We’re passionate about building products that improve the quality of life for patients. We like to learn along the way and depend on everyone’s input to help us grow as a team. Employees act on their strong desire to make a difference, partner with others and put ideas into action. Employees are engaged by a work culture that is team oriented, fast-paced and progressive.

What You Will Do

Recruit and lead the newly created European team in daily agile SRE practices Being responsible for coaching and mentoring team members, helping them achieve service goals, and build career pathsOptimize cloud data workloads for security, cost, performance, latency, reliability, and availabilityDrive incident management, tier 2 support, and post-mortem analysisSupport audits and complianceImplement effective standards, methodologies, and processes, driving change proactively as appropriate for continuous improvementInteract and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications & Profile

3+ years experience building and leading engineering teams, ideally SRE3+ years experience in product operations6+ years in critical, large scale distributed systems experience, combining Software development and operationsUnderstanding of SRE principals (monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts) with a keen eye for continuous improvementsStrong interpersonal skills, capable of working with multi-functional technical and business teams and varying levels of managementBuilding strong relationships with internal and external stakeholdersBachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experienceContinual knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of staffImplement structured engineering and operations processes.

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 will have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.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.

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.

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