Senior DevOps Engineer – CI/CD & Automation Platforms

The Role

We’re seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of overall IT experience, including 6 - 8 years in DevOps engineering. You will play a central role in designing and evolving our enterprise-scale CI/CD platform to support cloud-native, secure, and highly automated software delivery. Leveraging tools like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Snyk, Nexus Repository Manager, ArgoCD, Helm charts, you’ll build reusable automation frameworks, scalable pipelines, and self-service capabilities.

Your mission is to modernize and deliver a future-ready, cloud-native DevOps platform that accelerates developer productivity, enforces security and compliance, and seamlessly scales from legacy on-prem environments to cloud-native architecture.

You’ll collaborate closely with developers, SREs, security, and infrastructure teams to drive DevOps excellence across the enterprise. You should be a strong communicator and a true team player—comfortable partnering across diverse technology domains to deliver shared outcomes.

Why join Lord Abbett’s Platform Engineering Team?
At Lord Abbett, you’ll join a world-class engineering team that’s transforming the firm’s software delivery landscape through modern DevOps practices, cloud automation, and AI-driven innovation. You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Shape the next generation of CI/CD and DevSecOps platforms in a collaborative, high-impact environment.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to an engineering culture that values innovation, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with passionate technologists who are committed to building reliable, scalable, and secure systems that empower our business and investment teams.

We’ll trust you to:

• CI/CD Platform Design & Evolution
• Design and evolve enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines (as code) to enable secure, cloud-native delivery.
• Modernize platforms by implementing next-gen CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, or similar platform) alongside existing Jenkins pipelines.
• Deliver reusable, modular templates and drive adoption of self-service, standardized software delivery patterns across the enterprise.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• Develop Infrastructure as Code modules (Helm Charts) for Kubernetes for repeatable and consistent environment provisioning.
• Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to enable repeatable, declarative, and consistent containerized application delivery.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules to automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and consistency across environments.
• Cloud & DevOps Expertise
• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments.
• Combine cloud-native services with best-in-class DevOps tools to deliver secure, automated pipelines with observability and scalability.
• DevSecOps Integration
• Integrate SonarQube, Snyk, and policy-as-code controls into pipelines to ensure security, quality, and compliance gates.
• Partner with security teams to embed vulnerability scanning and automated remediation workflows.
• AI-Augmented DevOps
• Leverage AI/LLM tools to generate pipeline scripts, IaC templates.
• Use anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and self-healing workflows to optimize reliability, reduce toil, and accelerate recovery.
• Collaboration & Enablement
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and platform engineers, security, and infrastructure teams to architect DevOps solutions and onboard applications into standardized pipelines.

Drive adoption of best practices through training, enablement, and hands-on guidance.

You'll need to have:

• 12+ years of overall IT experience, including 6 – 8 years in DevOps engineering and CI/CD platform management.
• Strong hands-on expertise with CI/CD platforms and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, ArgoCD, SonarQube, and Snyk.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and containerized application delivery leveraging Helm charts and GitOps patterns.
• Deep knowledge of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, along with automation scripting skills in Python, Groovy, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including policy-as-code, security scanning, and artifact governance.
• Solid knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions,  or similar) and cloud-native delivery at scale.
• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD), Terraform, or related domains.
• Cloud certification (e.g., DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect) or comparable credential.
• Experience building developer productivity accelerators such as self-service tooling, reusable automation, and internal developer portals.
• Strong background in developer enablement and advocacy through training, workshops, documentation, and feedback loops that drive enterprise-wide DevOps adoption.

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles-Based - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first. 

We have been ranked #1 in Barron’s Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $180,000 - $205,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance. 

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

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