Sr Devops Engineer
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Job Description
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (8+ years) 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.
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