Sr Software Engineer - DevOps - job 1 of 2

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

 The Sr. Software Engineer, DevOps prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures. Provides day-to-day technical leadership; leverage 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. Writes unit, component, and integration tests.  

• Develop, implement, and manage automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, Github workflows, GitHub Actions, Jfrog Artifactory 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.  

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years’ experience OR Master’s Degree and 6 years’ experience OR PhD and 2 years’ experience 
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments.  
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git), artifact repositories (Artifactory), and pipeline logging/monitoring solutions.  
• Understanding of modern DevOps practices: infrastructure as code, policy as code, automated testing frameworks, security in build pipelines.   
• Must have experience in structured software and systems development and integration, including experience in 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).  

Beneficial: 

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes considered a plus).  

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and untilpaid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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. 

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