Devops Engineer ( Local To Chicago, IL)

Role: Devops Engineer
Chicago, IL, USA Only local, need proof of residency.

Required Experience and Education:
10+ years in application development (end-to-end solutions) and 5+ years as a Cloud Engineer (Azure focus).
Bachelors Degree

Preferred Certifications:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Must have Skills/Attributes
AWS, Azure, DevOps, GitHub, IAM, Java

Required Technical Skills:
Azure Services: Compute, storage, networking, PaaS offerings.
Database Ops: Backups, replication, failover (Azure Postgres/Cosmos DB).
Messaging: Kafka, Azure Service BEvent Hub.

Required Soft Skills:
Self-starter, agile (SCRUM), ability to navigate ambiguity.

Core Responsibilities
Design scalable, cost-effective Azure solutions using native services (e.g., Azure Postgres, Cosmos DB, Service Bus).
Address non-functional requirements: availability, backups, disaster recovery.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for provisioning.
CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions for deployments (Microservices/Spring Boot apps).
Remediate security findings (IAM, data protection, network security).
Implement SRE principles: monitoring (Azure native tools), logging, and alerting.
Mentor junior engineers on cloud best practices.
Collaborate with DevOps/application teams (ReactJS, Spring Boot, Kafka).