Senior DevOps Engineer

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full-time

Posted on: 9/17/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois

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💰 $90,000 - $120,000 per year

Senior

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDockerGoGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisSQLTerraform

About the role

Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions; investigate performance and process failures and work to improve them.
Developing and build IT solutions, install and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, and assist in all stages of the software development cycle.
Stay apprised of new developments in both Azure and AWS cloud operations and help in determining architectural solutions to enhance the stability and performance of the infrastructure.
Gain a deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design.
Work closely with other internal teams to build security, reliability, and scalability into the development lifecycle.
Dive deep into the software stack to troubleshoot as needed and in resolving Windows and Linux operating system issues.
Be on call as a part of rotating support schedule and respond to production issues and incidents in a timely manner.
Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications in the production environment.
Build from the ground up reliable infrastructure services in AWS and Azure to deliver highly scalable services.
Automate cloud operations using Infrastructure as Code tools and Configuration management tools.
Ensures the confidentiality of internal and external data
Performs ad-hoc projects and other duties as assigned

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent professional experience
4+ years of prior experience in DevOps, Site Reliability or Platform Engineering
Highly proficient in one of programming languages such as Python, Go or Java
Strong Scripting Skills in Bash or PowerShell
Strong background in Public clouds like AWS or Azure along with infrastructure as a code(Terraform, CDK)
Strong Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, SonarQube
Experience in managing Kubernetes Clusters
Experience with Scrum and Agile workflow methodologies
Experience in AWS or Azure Cloud and container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
DB solutions: MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Cache: Redis and Memcached
CI/CD: Jenkins CI, Git, Gitlab CI, Helm for Kubernetes
Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Git, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana
On Call Support: Pagerduty
Certified AWS Solutions Architect- Associate or higher (preferred)
Azure Fundamentals or higher (preferred)
Any Kubernetes Certifications (KCNA, KCSA, CKAD, CKA, CKS) (preferred)
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (preferred)