Lead DevOps Engineer

SECURE ROOTS
Chicago, United States of America
1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Chicago, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Data Stores
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Systems
Monitoring of Systems
Python
NoSQL
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Prometheus
Scala
SQL Databases
Datadog
Data Logging
Grafana
Event Driven Architecture
Containerization
Kubernetes
Hashicorp
Kafka
Terraform
Dynatrace
Pagerduty
Jenkins
Go
Microservices

Job description

  • Lead DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives across enterprise platforms.
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environments.
  • Manage and support multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka platforms.
  • Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, and operational excellence practices.
  • Build observability solutions using metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
  • Drive automation initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Lead incident response, post-mortems, runbook creation, and on-call processes.
  • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions.
  • Support capacity planning, failover strategies, and performance optimization.

Requirements

  • AWS (EC2), Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault
  • Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar monitoring tools
  • Chaos engineering principles and tooling (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, LitmusChaos)
  • PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or other incident management platforms
  • Microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
  • Cloud networking and security
  • SQL, NoSQL, and in-memory data stores
  • Development experience with Java, Python, Scala, or Golang
  • Multi-region/high-availability architecture and disaster recovery
  • Strong understanding of SRE principles, automation, and cloud-native technologies, * 8+ years of experience building large-scale, data-centric solutions
  • 8+ years of recent experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering environments
  • Experience working in fast-paced, highly available enterprise environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

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