DevOps Engineer IV

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer will work with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment. This role requires a background in development, operations, and full-stack software implementations.

This is a hybrid role and must be located in Chicago (or within commutable distance) to be onsite as needed/on occasion.

Responsibilities

• Is well versed in programming in a high-level language such as TypeScript, Python, Java, C# or other languages to script installation, configuration, and provisioning
• Provide continuous delivery solutions in a cloud environment and have experience with the core suite of tools used to manage AWS cloud infrastructure
• Establish and employ Continuous Integration practices and tools such as Harness, ArgoCD, Github Action or other CI tools
• Configure management automation tools from AWS or other cloud providers in creating continuous delivery systems
• Employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
• Responsible for mentoring and teaching existing team members
• Clearly explain solutions for complex problems and demonstrate ability to lead and impart knowledge effectively to junior resources
• Continually improve cyber resilience.
• Collect DevOps automation requirements from development teams
• Design devops pipelines for applications based on existing company standards
• Build cloud infrastructure pipelines based on existing company standards
• Build CI/CD pipelines based on existing company standards for cloud applications
• Support and maintain existing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 5 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, or operations
• Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
• Experience maintaining infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features
• Any AWS Certification
• Familiarity with a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC) and experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Comfort with frequent changes in priorities
• Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
• Experience managing multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster
• Continuous integration tools such as Harness ArgoCD, Github Action or similar
• Scripting (Python, JS, GO Lang, Bash) skills for monitoring and automation
• Possess a strong grasp of automation tools
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Time and priority management
• A team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred

• Experience leading small teams
• AWS CDK
• Object-Oriented Programming Experience.