MANAGER, CLOUD ENGINEERING - AA, REMOTE

<p>The <strong>Manager, Cloud Engineering</strong>, 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.</p><p><strong>People &amp; Team Leadership:</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous learning.</li><li>Create and recommend professional learning paths for direct reports</li><li>Conceptualize and execute technical approaches for emerging systems and architecture.</li><li>Implement, through the team, the high bar of quality and standards for production reliability and the developer experience</li><li>Act as the key point of contact between your team and other stakeholders and partner teams</li></ul><p><strong>Site Reliability &amp; Platform Engineering:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead the adoption and maturation of SRE practices across the organization, partnering with service owners to improve production reliability.</li><li>Define and champion SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget-based decision making to drive prioritization between reliability and feature work.</li><li>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.</li><li>Responsible for team capacity planning and staffing allocation activities to ensure sufficient staffing for current and future needs.</li></ul><p><strong>Incident Management &amp; Response:</strong></p><ul><li>Plan, staff and support on-call rotation.</li><li>Manage robust incident response and resolution, capture corrective and preventative actions and continuous improvements</li></ul> <p>&#xa0;</p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.</li><li>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.</li><li>Experience building and operating internal developer platforms that improve engineering productivity, standardize delivery patterns, and reduce operational toil.</li><li>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).</li><li>System Design: Proven track record in designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems with high availability requirements.</li><li>Observability: Experience implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)</li><li>Experience surveying developer teams to identify friction points, prioritize platform improvements, and translate feedback into self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity.</li><li>Deep experience with platform engineering and SRE practices and frameworks</li><li>Programming proficiency of various languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go, Rust)</li><li>Knowledge of secure SDLC practices and methodologies.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.</li><li>Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) are a plus.</li></ul><p><br> <strong>Preferred Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Demonstrated ability to lead cloud modernization, migration, or platform transformation initiatives in a regulated or enterprise environment.</li><li>Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platform operations, GitOps workflows, service mesh, secrets management, and policy-as-code practices.</li><li>Experience applying FinOps principles to optimize cloud consumption, cost visibility, capacity planning, and resource governance.</li><li>Ability to influence architecture and technical strategy across cross-functional teams while balancing reliability, security, scalability, and business delivery needs.</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and provide innovative solutions to complex security challenges.</li></ul> <div sr-tagline=""></div><p>AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.&#xa0;</p><p>US &amp; 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