Lead DevOps Engineer

SECURE ROOTS

Chicago, IL, United States

about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

8 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

dice.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Cloud Computing Data Stores DevOps Disaster Recovery Distributed Systems Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) NoSQL Performance Tuning

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Reliability Engineering Ansible Prometheus Scala (Programming Language) SQL Databases Datadog Data Logging Grafana Event Driven Architecture Containerization Kubernetes Hashicorp Apache Kafka Terraform Dynatrace Pagerduty Jenkins Golang 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