Lead DevOps Software Engineer

Lead DevOps Software Engineer

Salary: Open + bonus

Location: Chicago, IL

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Qualifications

·        Bachelor’s degree preferred including 7+ years of related experience

·        AWS EC2, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault

·        Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent

·        Incident management platforms and on-call tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, OpsGenie)

·        Microservices and streaming data-intensive application architecture

·        Application architecture, networking, and security in the cloud

·        Setting up platforms in AWS for high-performance requirements

·        Broad experience in API-based development

·        Git and Artifactory for sourcing artifacts

·        Multi-AZ, multi-region failover architecture

·        Chaos engineering principles and tooling (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, LitmusChaos)

·        Fluent with different data formats and structures: JSON, Protobuf, Avro

·        SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory data stores

·        Java/Python/Scala/Golang software development

·        Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF

Responsibilities

·        Guides the implementation using CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environment

·        Directs review, configuration, and execution of Terraform and Ansible automation pipelines delivered by product teams

·        Guides the setup of common infrastructure platforms like multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka clusters

·        Elicits requirements for application deployment and sizing to manage expected workloads

·        Defines and enforces Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets in collaboration with product teams

·        Leads blameless post-mortems and drives resolution of action items to reduce repeat incidents

·        Designs and implements observability frameworks covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing across all platform services

·        Drives toil reduction initiatives by identifying and automating repetitive operational work

·        Partners with product teams to embed reliability requirements and non-functional requirements (NFRs) early in the software development lifecycle

·        Monitors application performance and tunes systems working with product teams

·        Confers with product team leads and practitioners to create deployment and reliability plans

·        Confers with Enterprise Architecture and Renaissance architecture teams to devise implementation architecture