The Role

To be the most respected asset manager in the world, we strive to have the most agile technology organization in asset management. 

Our focus:

• We strive to be responsive to market or business changes
• We embrace a data driven culture
• We believe in modern architecture principles
• We are forward thinking
• We foster innovation
• We are a learning organization

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Assume an invaluable role in ensuring the long-term stability and scalability of our platforms & services.
• Help implementing best practices, industry standards and security measures to ensure that we are releasing high quality applications.
• Assist in building and enhancing internal common libraries, quick-start templates, tools, and workflows to improve automation and efficiency.
• Have the motivation to learn new tools, technologies, and the drive to continuously ensure that the end products are high-performing, highly available, highly scalable and secured that our business partners can trust.

We’ll trust you to:

• Partner and work cross functionally with other development teams and business partners.
• Tackle tough business challenges to create new opportunities and drive growth by building new capabilities.
• Understand and deeply focus on the real-world benefits the platforms and services will have on our development teams and business partners.
• Participate in various working groups to define Standards and Best Practices and help drive innovation.

You'll need to have:

• Minimum 10 years of industry experience with 5 years of relevant experience with various DevOps tools and technologies.
• Minimum required skills include Git (with both CLI and GUI) & branching strategies.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD platforms (preferably Jenkins) & Software Delivery Pipelines using pipeline-as-code methodology.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift Container Platform, Helm Charts and GitOps tool (preferably ArgoCD).
• Experience with instrumenting infrastructure and services with monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing tools.
• Said individual should have reasonable programming/scripting skills as he/she will be writing DevOps automations and will also be working with Developers on various initiatives on a regular basis.
• The more advanced skills to distinguish the individual would be a good understanding of cloud native distributed applications architecture.
• The candidate should also have strong interpersonal and communication skills, hunger for learning and the zeal to drive projects to completion.
• Any AWS & Terraform experience will be a plus.

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading asset manager serving clients worldwide. Our purpose—securing a sustainable future for our clients, our people, and our world—fuels everything we do. Inspired by our “dream big, work hard, have fun” principle, our people thrive in our vibrant culture and deliver lasting impact to our clients and communities. We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management for 2021 and 2020 by Pensions & Investments, a Best Place to Work in the Human Rights Campaign’s 2022 and 2021 Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ workplace equality, and certified as Great Place to Work®in 2021.