Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Contract role.

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure, leveraging services such as AKS, FrontDoor, Key Vaults, APIM, and App Gateway. 
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Gradle for efficient software delivery. 
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage environments.
• Manage containerized applications with Docker and orchestrate deployments using Kubernetes (AKS).
• Ensure system reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Dynatrace and Azure Monitor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with at least 5 years in DevOps or Software Engineering roles. 
• Deep expertise in Azure cloud services and proficiency with Terraform for IaC. Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Gradle), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, and Bash, plus solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancers). 
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (Azure SQL, Snowflake, Redis) and messaging systems like Confluent Kafka.
• Experience mitigating Sonar, Checkmarx, CAST scans.
• This is a hybrid role that requires working at the Client site 3 days per week based out of their Chicago office.