Location: Chicago,IL
Expected Start Date: Aug 3, 2026
Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If you can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT apply.
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Title: Release Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Location: Peoria, IL OR Chicago, IL
Workplace type: 100% onsite (M-F, 40 hour work week) + may need additional flexible hours
Type: Contract
Pay: $68-70.77 MAX/hour on w2
IV type: 2-3 rounds
Length: 12 months- possibility to extend
Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired
+optional benefits and 401K
Education & Experience Required:
Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years experience OR Master degree with 8+ years experience
8+ years of IT release or delivery management.
6-7+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologies
Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Top candidates will also have:
Experience in/with the following: o Azure DevOps o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) with multiple other teams as a Scrum Master or Program Manager or Project Co-Ordinator
Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, o AWS Cloud, automated CICD and BDD with Cucumber.
Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
Bachelor's degree in Computer science
- High Communication skills
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications :
- Consistent job hopping/ choppy tenure
- If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
- Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
- If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
- WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.
Position's Contributions to Work Group :
- client Digital has an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated Release Engineer.
- The primary purpose of the role is to monitor and co-ordinate the build and release cycle of modern cloud-based customer facing client Foresight web application by collaborating with Scrum Teams, QA, Product and Business stakeholders.
- You will be part of a fast-moving global team to build a best-in-class product for client dealers worldwide to improve operational efficiency and reduce TCO
Typical task breakdown: - As a Release Engineer/Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for monitoring CI/CD pipelines for smooth and successful builds and develop the UAT and production release plans.
- You will also be coordinating with important stakeholders such as QA, Infrastructure, Product and Business managers to resolve build problems, determine the release feature set and gathering of release documentation.
- Successful candidate also will perform DevOps role as secondary role. As a DevOps role successful candidate will demonstrate competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, Lambda.
- Proficient in Python programming language and tech stacks
Interaction with team :
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
- Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Work environment :
- Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago/Peoria - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Industry
Employment Type
Contract
Job Functions
Skills
- ECS
- Computer Science
- DevOps
- Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Time Constraints
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Scrum
- Web Applications
- Presentations
- Amazon Web
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