Sr DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience Level: 8+ years

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid role)

Employment Type: Full-time Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship. We are looking for a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience to own end-to-end infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines. You will drive operational excellence, collaborate with development teams and business stakeholders, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness, or TeamCity, incorporating build caching, parallel execution, artifact management (Nexus/Artifactory), and release automation.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation to provision and maintain AWS cloud resources, including VPC, IAM policies, autoscaling, high availability (HA), and cost optimization.
• Automate environment lifecycles (DEV/QA/PROD) with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), Docker containerization, networking basics, and shared platform services.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability using Dynatrace, conducting load testing, reliability pattern analysis, post-incident reviews, and proactive issue resolution.
• Ensure cloud security and compliance through Vault/AWS Secrets Manager, pipeline security, vulnerability scanning (SAST/DAST), secret management, and IAM policy automation.
• Establish robust Git branching/release strategies, versioning/tagging, and Maven/Gradle/npm build processes for efficient delivery.
• Collaborate in daily scrum calls, gather requirements from teams and business, provide status updates, take ownership of deliverables, and drive projects to completion on time.
• Proactively identify risks, perform root-cause analysis, fix issues, and implement precautions to maintain system reliability and prevent production disruptions.

Required Skills & Technologies:

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness, TeamCity; Maven/Gradle/npm; versioning/tagging; pipeline security.
• IaC & Cloud: Terraform, CloudFormation; AWS (VPC, IAM, Autoscaling, HA, Cost Optimization).
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (internals, EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Monitoring & Reliability: Dynatrace; observability stacks; load testing; post-incident reviews.
• Security & Automation: Linux/Shell/PowerShell; Vault/AWS Secrets Manager; SAST/DAST; compliance automation.
• Other: Git branching/release strategy; networking basics; cloud security.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with multi-cloud environments or advanced AWS services.
• Familiarity with additional observability tools beyond Dynatrace.