Top Senior DevOps Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads a DevOps engineering team while designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, security controls, infrastructure as code, containerized microservices, and disaster recovery processes. The role focuses on improving developer efficiency, system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in on-call support.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure powering a multi-tenant SaaS platform, including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD. Lead infrastructure projects, improve reliability and developer self-service, manage SLOs, reduce toil, support SOC 2 compliance, mentor engineers, and participate in incident response. Collaborate with Product teams on reliable customer launches and use observability tools to monitor platform performance.

Designs and scales cloud-native development infrastructure supporting multiple engineering teams. Responsibilities include Kubernetes platform operations, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Helm, GitOps with ArgoCD, CI/CD modernization, automation, platform migrations, observability, reliability, security, and incident escalation. The role partners with application and SRE teams, establishes engineering standards, reduces operational toil, and mentors engineers while supporting Azure and AKS environments.

Lead DevOps and SRE initiatives focused on Azure SQL Elastic Pools, cloud infrastructure reliability, observability, automation, high availability, disaster recovery, and incident response. Manage scalable Azure or AWS environments, build infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, optimize performance and costs, develop monitoring and remediation solutions, and mentor junior engineers while partnering across development, security, and database teams.

Design, operate, and scale SailPoint’s AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructure and service mesh for a global, mission-critical SaaS platform. Responsibilities include cluster architecture, networking, security, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning, incident response, compliance, and platform standards. The role influences engineering teams globally, participates in 24x7 on-call support, leads service mesh strategy, and improves reliability, performance, deployment efficiency, and operational practices.

Designs, automates, and supports enterprise DevOps platforms across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. Responsibilities include CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Linux administration, Kubernetes and container platforms, Azure and GCP operations, AI/ML infrastructure support, monitoring, reliability engineering, production support, security, disaster recovery, and cloud modernization. The role partners with infrastructure, development, security, architecture, and operations teams while participating in incident management and on-call rotations.

Design, configure, and optimize Azure DevOps organizations and CI/CD pipelines. Implement process templates, Portfolio++ for portfolio visibility, integrate with third-party tools, support sprint and capacity planning, troubleshoot pipelines, and create runbooks and adoption guidance for client teams.

The DevOps Engineer will lead multiple client projects, design and support applications, and mentor other engineers, utilizing modern development practices and technologies.

Senior/Principal DevOps Engineers will deliver cloud and infrastructure projects for small, medium-sized, and enterprise clients. Responsibilities include DevOps project delivery, staff augmentation, fractional retainers, and solution consulting using AWS, GCP, Azure, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and scripting languages. Strong communication and project management skills are required. Roles are available full-time or part-time as 1099 contractor engagements for US-based workers.

Manage Azure cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, security, monitoring, and logging. Build CI/CD pipelines and secure Linux machine images, implement Infrastructure as Code, troubleshoot deployments, and improve application reliability. This two-month contractor engagement requires independent delivery of production-quality infrastructure, with opportunities to support multi-cloud environments and confidential computing.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code automation. Partners with application engineering, quality, security, and compliance teams to deliver reliable platform solutions. Owns platform stability, observability, incident response, security best practices, and zero-downtime deployments. Participates in on-call rotations, uses metrics for decision-making, and supports application architecture decisions while continuously improving DevOps processes and automation.

Designs and maintains AWS, data center, co-location, and network infrastructure. Improves CI/CD pipelines, system reliability, scalability, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Supports migrations, monitors critical systems, collaborates with development and operations teams, and promotes infrastructure best practices.

Designs, operates, and improves secure cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and production services. Provides Tier-3 support, incident response, root-cause analysis, monitoring, observability, security controls, and reliability improvements. Participates in on-call rotations and collaborates with development, QA, security, infrastructure, and support teams to enhance delivery and operational readiness.

Design, build, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure; optimize GitHub-centric CI/CD; implement observability stacks; automate compliance for GovRAMP/FedRAMP and SOC2; author audit-ready documentation and runbooks; collaborate with engineering and security teams to ensure high availability and reliability.

Maintain and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC and GitOps. Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning, monitor and triage issues, enforce security best practices, collaborate with engineering teams, perform code reviews, and participate in rotating on-call duties.

Designs, implements, and supports secure Azure and GCP DevOps platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, GitOps workflows, and developer self-service capabilities. Owns enterprise tools including JFrog, Argo CD, SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, GitHub, and runners. Leads software supply chain security, vulnerability remediation, compliance, automation, platform modernization, incident response, and L3 support while partnering with cybersecurity teams.

Own Salesforce DevOps and release engineering, including GitHub administration, Git automation, branching, CI/CD pipelines, sandbox and scratch-org management, backups, and release governance. Build full-stack Salesforce solutions with Apex, LWC, SOQL/SOSL, Flows, APIs, integrations, and event-driven patterns. Support Certinia PSA, CPQ/ARM, AI initiatives, and enterprise projects while establishing deployment gates, telemetry, quality controls, and reliable production releases.

The DevOps Engineer will manage build and deployment automation, improve platform health, and develop self-service tools while ensuring robust DevOps practices with AWS.

Designs, builds, and scales automation for secure hybrid infrastructure. Responsibilities include CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud architecture, configuration management, monitoring, logging, security, network operations, containerization, and self-healing systems. The role maintains mission-critical production environments, develops performance metrics, resolves root causes, and collaborates cross-functionally to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

Designs and operates Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Terraform infrastructure, Azure platforms, API Management, and MuleSoft integrations. The role owns reliability engineering through observability, SLOs, incident response, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and cost governance. It also embeds DevSecOps practices and develops AI-assisted automation for troubleshooting, infrastructure, and operational workflows. Responsibilities include technical leadership, standards development, mentoring, production support, and collaboration across development, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams.

Lead the evolution of cloud-native infrastructure by architecting and scaling AWS EKS clusters, standardizing Helm deployments, managing Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, and improving observability, reliability, security, and access controls. The role leads cross-team engineering initiatives, establishes DevOps best practices, and mentors engineers while supporting GitOps workflows and scalable application delivery.

Own and improve the reliability of Kintsugi’s AWS and managed Kubernetes infrastructure. Build automation, internal tools, observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code workflows while reducing operational toil. Lead incident response, reliability architecture, developer enablement, cost optimization, security, compliance, and disaster recovery efforts. Work agent-first and partner with Platform Engineering, Product, QA, and software teams to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Lead design, deployment, and operation of Caldera's blockchain infrastructure. Build and expand DevOps pipelines, manage Kubernetes/AWS deployments, implement IaC (Terraform/Helm), enhance observability, optimize performance, and maintain infrastructure security for production rollup chains.

Design and operate scalable, secure, highly available AWS infrastructure for a revenue management platform. Build infrastructure automation, CI/CD tooling, monitoring, and developer tools; advise on architecture, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot 24/7 incidents, lead root cause analyses, support AI-enabled DevOps workflows, and mentor engineers. The role participates in a weekly on-call rotation and is remote in the US or Canada.

Owns uptime, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, shared Linux environments, and incident response for live client applications across Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare. Responsibilities include provisioning environments, managing secrets and identities, maintaining monitoring and reliability practices, supporting releases and database migrations, responding to production incidents, and leading post-incident reviews. The role requires strong Azure DevOps, Bicep or Terraform, Linux, AWS, Cloudflare, and observability experience.