Senior DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience—and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

About the role

The Senior DevOps Engineer prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures. Provides day-to-day technical leadership; leverages professional experience to recommend best practices, systems, and architectures. Designs, builds, and maintains efficient, robust, scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for software delivery, integration, and testing. Provides leadership in establishing best practices for DevOps, configuration management, and pipeline automation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements refinement, architecture discussions, design specification reviews, and test plan development for features across the full stack.
• Write clean, maintainable code and documentation using engineering best practices.
• Write unit, component, and integration tests.
• Develop, implement, and manage automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure end-to-end pipeline reliability and performance.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize pipeline processes; implement metrics and reporting for pipeline health.
• Integrate tools for automated code quality checks, security scanning, and continuous integration.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies for pipeline automation and DevOps practices.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards within the build/deployment pipeline.
• Guide teams in source control management (e.g., branching strategies, Git workflows).
• Support onboarding and training for pipeline usage and best practices across engineering functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in any STEM-related discipline with 7 years of experience; OR Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience; OR PhD with 2 years of experience.
• Respective years of experience in professional coding.
• Respective years of experience in software design and development.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes considered a plus).
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git), artifact repositories (Artifactory), and pipeline logging/monitoring solutions.
• Understanding of modern DevOps practices: infrastructure as code, automated testing frameworks, security in build pipelines.
• Experience in structured software and systems development and integration, including software design methodologies, design patterns, component-oriented software architecture to produce high-quality software applications.
• Knowledge of software life cycle processes used in regulated development environments.
• Result-oriented, self-motivated, and able to participate as both a team member and an individual contributor.
• Self-starter able to work with minimal direction.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (documentation, process communication, collaboration).

Qualifications

Preferred:

• 7+ years of professional coding experience and 5+ years of coding design and development preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Eligible to participate in long-term incentive programs.

Pay

The compensation range described is the range of possible base pay the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of posting based on the job grade. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and the Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.