Manager, Cloud Engineering - AA, Remote

AbbVie • Los Angeles, CA

8h • $141,500 - $268,500 • Remote

About The Position

The Manager, Cloud Engineering, will continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve critical technical problems for Allergan Aesthetics. You will be a hands-on leader of the foundational engineering team driving our system/service reliability, scale, and developer productivity. In this dual-focus leadership role, you will bridge the gap between keeping our production environment highly resilient and ensuring our internal software developers have friction-free, high-speed tools and pipelines. You will lead a talented team of engineers who build scalable infrastructure, standardize developer tooling, reduce toil, and foster a culture of operational excellence across the entire engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience (1-3 years) in a leadership role managing cloud/platform engineering teams with 6+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering.
• Experience building and operating internal developer platforms that improve engineering productivity, standardize delivery patterns, and reduce operational toil.
• Deep background in modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI).
• System Design: Proven track record in designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems with high availability requirements.
• Observability: Experience implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience surveying developer teams to identify friction points, prioritize platform improvements, and translate feedback into self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity.
• Deep experience with platform engineering and SRE practices and frameworks
• Programming proficiency of various languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, Rust)
• Knowledge of secure SDLC practices and methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) are a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cloud modernization, migration, or platform transformation initiatives in a regulated or enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platform operations, GitOps workflows, service mesh, secrets management, and policy-as-code practices.
• Experience applying FinOps principles to optimize cloud consumption, cost visibility, capacity planning, and resource governance.
• Ability to influence architecture and technical strategy across cross-functional teams while balancing reliability, security, scalability, and business delivery needs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and provide innovative solutions to complex security challenges.

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, hire, develop and mentor a team of Platform Engineers to deliver high-quality infrastructure and developer solutions that are secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Create and recommend professional learning paths for direct reports
• Conceptualize and execute technical approaches for emerging systems and architecture.
• Implement, through the team, the high bar of quality and standards for production reliability and the developer experience
• Act as the key point of contact between your team and other stakeholders and partner teams
• Lead the adoption and maturation of SRE practices across the organization, partnering with service owners to improve production reliability.
• Define and champion SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget-based decision making to drive prioritization between reliability and feature work.
• Lead the strategy for internal developer platform capabilities — influence self-service infrastructure, developer tooling, and deployment patterns that improve velocity and reduce toil for product teams.
• Responsible for team capacity planning and staffing allocation activities to ensure sufficient staffing for current and future needs.
• Plan, staff and support on-call rotation.
• Manage robust incident response and resolution, capture corrective and preventative actions and continuous improvements

Benefits

• AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager