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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Configuration Management, DevOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c1bf0d9b-9945-4600-89e4-2dce65b7e496

## About the Role

* 5+ years of DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience
 * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
 * Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
 * Ability to work directly with trading desks and business stakeholders

Desired Skills

 * Experience with Airflow or Kubeflow
 * Bachelor's degree preferred
 * Previous experience working at a trading firm or within financial services
 * Experience working on a small, collaborative engineering team

## Description

A large financial services and trading firm is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for a full-time opportunity based in Chicago, IL. This engineer will play a key role in scaling Kubernetes environments and enhancing the organization's observability platform. As a technology-driven trading shop, the company relies on highly available, scalable infrastructure to support mission-critical trading operations.

The team leverages GitLab for Kubernetes deployments, and this position will work closely with cross-functional teams to support platform adoption and onboarding efforts. The role will also focus on infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform.