Senior DevOps Engineer: CI/CD & Cloud Automation Leader

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, install, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for software delivery, integration, and testing.

You will lead with best practices for DevOps, configuration management, and pipeline automation, collaborate across teams, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and mentor others while continuously improving performance.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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).

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, 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.

Skills

CI/CD ownership

DevOps practices

Cloud/Hybrid environments

Containerization

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Artifactory

Job description

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, install, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for software delivery, integration, and testing.

You will lead with best practices for DevOps, configuration management, and pipeline automation, collaborate across teams, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and mentor others while continuously improving performance.