AbbVie Posted August 24, 2026

Senior DevOps Engineer II – Platform & Full Stack Engineering

North Chicago, IL Full-time
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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

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. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X  and  YouTube.

Job Description

Technical contributor responsible for designing, engineering, and continuously optimizing software delivery pipelines and full stack applications in support of modern, scalable, and compliant development environments. The role combines CI/CD pipeline engineering, application development, and platform integration to enable efficient, automated, and governed software delivery. A key focus is the integration of agentic (AI-supported) development capabilities into the software lifecycle, ensuring reproducibility, traceability, and compliance by design. The position requires the ability to implement end-to-end technical solutions across application and platform layers, while continuously improving engineering practices, tooling, and delivery standards in alignment with enterprise IT and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and operate robust CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows, ensuring reliable and repeatable software build, integration, testing, and deployment processes.

Engineer full stack solutions by developing backend services and frontend components.

Develop and maintain scalable, modular, and testable code with appropriate testing practices.

Integrate and standardize toolchains across the SDLC including version control, build automation, artifact management, and security scanning.

Monitor, analyze, and optimize pipeline and application performance with observability capabilities.

Embed and enforce security, compliance, and quality controls aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements.

Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions

Apply DevOps and platform engineering practices including containerization and infrastructure as code (IaC)

Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies including AI-assisted development.

Drive continuous improvement of development processes, tools, and standards.

Produce and maintain technical documentation.

Collaborate with cross-functional and global teams.

Support implementation of governance, traceability, and validation practices for AI-assisted software development in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 7 years’ experience; Master's Degree in CS with 6 years’ experience; PhD with 2 years’ experience

Experience working with AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI) and strong understanding of emerging agentic development workflows

Experience with CI/CD pipelines in cloud or hybrid environments

Strong backend programming skills and familiarity with frontend frameworks

Experience with DevOps toolchains and Git-based workflows

Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

Understanding of SDLC practices, documentation, traceability, and validation requirements within regulated environments

Ability to learn and apply new technologies

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Structured and detail-oriented working style

Preferred:

Experience with Cloud-Native development and deployment on AWS or Azure

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure coding standards

Experience developing REST APIs, microservices, and modern web applications using frameworks such as .NET, Python, React, or similar technologies

Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools

Relevant technical certifications in DevOps, cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or DevSecOps (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA/CKAD/CKS, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or GitHub Actions certification).

Experience in the pharmaceutical industry

Additional Information

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 posting based 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 pay more 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 long-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 until paid 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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Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 599 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 60 biopharma companies.

599Comparable roles tracked
562Currently active
60Companies hiring similar roles
33Countries represented

Salary context

102 of 599 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $109,500/yr – $208,500/yr
Highest disclosed · Senior Staff Engineer - DevSecOps · Exelixis Inc $219,000/yr – $311,000/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $265,000 (median $183,750)

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United States218
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Poland22
United Kingdom11
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Seniority mix

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Senior405
Principal104
Associate Director90

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 599 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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