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Senior DevOps Engineer
Society of Actuaries Research Institute · Schaumburg, IL, United States
Schaumburg, IL, United StatesFull timeExp: 6-8 yrs120,000-125,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Paid time off, tuition reimbursement and continuing education funding, health and wellness benefits, disability coverage, a 403(b) plan with employer contribution, and maternal/paternal leave.
Location
Schaumburg, IL, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer leads the design and improvement of secure, scalable DevOps platforms and cloud infrastructure to support reliable delivery of enterprise applications. The role develops CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, while advancing platform engineering, observability, DevSecOps, and AIOps. It also applies SRE practices, incident response, and cost optimization to improve system reliability and developer productivity.
Benefits
Paid time offTuition reimbursement and continuing education fundingHealth benefits and wellness programsEmployee Assistance ProgramWellness reimbursementLife, short-term, and long-term disability coverage403(b) plan with employer contributionMaternal and paternal leave
Qualifications
- Six to eight years of IT experience, including hands-on DevOps or cloud engineering.
- Six to eight years of experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Four to five years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and container orchestration.
- Strong experience designing and automating CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps and observability practices.
- Expertise with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience working in Agile or DevOps environments with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, and security best practices.
- Ability to work in a standardized Windows-based environment, use Microsoft 365, and follow device and security policies.
- Cloud certifications, AIOps or AI/ML experience, Terraform experience, AI-assisted automation experience, and enterprise SaaS platform experience are preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of DevOps practices, standards, and tools.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps engineers and cross-functional teams.
- Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, including testing, security scanning, artifact management, and progressive delivery.
- Design and manage cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and self-service provisioning capabilities.
- Establish observability standards for logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
- Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, secrets management, and access controls into DevOps workflows.
- Apply SRE practices, define service level indicators and objectives, and improve system resilience.
- Conduct incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Implement scaling, failover, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies.
- Partner with development, QA, and Product teams to improve release processes and developer experience.
Skills
Auth0AWSAzureAzure DevOpsBashCloudFormationDatadogDockerGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGrafanaIAMJenkinsKubernetesNew RelicOktaOpsgeniePagerDutyPrometheusPythonSecrets ManagerSplunkTerraformVaultWindowsGitGitLab CI
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps EngineerAWS Certified Solutions ArchitectMicrosoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a
Relocation
No