Top Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own and improve the production Linux infrastructure, including performance tuning, incident response, configuration management, container orchestration, networking, proxies, virtualization, secrets, observability, and data services. Build automation in Bash and Python, maintain infrastructure code through Git and peer review, troubleshoot complex system issues, write postmortems and runbooks, and support scalable, reliable systems in a regulated fintech environment.

Build and maintain cloud-based development, build, testing, deployment, and production infrastructure. Own platform systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tools. Collaborate with engineers on a you-build-it-you-run-it platform, troubleshoot incidents, lead postmortems, address root causes, and automate improvements to enhance reliability, performance, and stability.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud data infrastructure across development, preproduction, and production environments. Establish PostgreSQL platforms, infrastructure-as-code with Chef, BI infrastructure, identity integrations, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Support data pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, optimize databases, and ensure FedRAMP and FISMA compliance. Collaborate with security, compliance, DevOps, and data engineering teams while delivering greenfield infrastructure from architecture through production.

Build, operate, and scale large-scale data storage platforms (Hadoop, S3-compatible, enterprise storage). Tune Linux for I/O performance, automate deployments with Ansible/Puppet, implement observability with Prometheus, and partner with engineers on storage- and Kafka-focused data solutions. Familiarity with Kubernetes and development in Java/Python required.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will develop and maintain systems, triage issues, and manage Linux environments, working both independently and as part of a team.

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer will define and build infrastructure at Atticus, managing platforms, security, reliability, and empowering engineering teams.

Architect and deploy a FedRAMP High-aligned Google Cloud landing zone for a large enterprise migration. Build secure organization hierarchies, IAM, networking, service perimeters, API gateway infrastructure, and automated infrastructure-as-code pipelines across four regulated environments. Integrate audit-ready logging with SIEM platforms, migrate legacy data, support external APIs, and deliver documented, production-ready cloud infrastructure in coordination with client stakeholders.

Designs, builds, automates, and supports AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure across multiple accounts, regions, and environments. Responsibilities include Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning, enterprise networking, CI/CD pipeline development, multi-region disaster recovery, cloud modernization, troubleshooting, security, compliance, monitoring, and reliability improvements. The role partners with network, security, application development, and platform engineering teams in a regulated financial services environment.

Own infrastructure, deployment, operational tooling, observability, deploy safety, and incident response for latency-sensitive institutional trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity; reduce single points of failure; establish operational standards and automation; partner with engineering, product, markets, and SRE; and mentor engineers in a 24/7 production environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud and production infrastructure for venture-backed technology companies. Responsibilities include improving reliability and performance, developing internal platforms, maintaining CI/CD and observability systems, automating infrastructure provisioning, and partnering with engineering and security teams to solve scaling challenges.

Design, build, and run secure production infrastructure across cloud-native and air-gapped deployments. Own end-to-end platform outcomes, harden the artifact pipeline for signed releases, embed with teams to advise on security and deployment best practices, and partner with GRC on STIGs, CVE remediation, and audit readiness for classified environments.

Build, operate, and secure cloud-native and edge infrastructure including Kubernetes, artifact pipelines, application streaming, and air-gapped appliances. Partner with product, GRC, and mission owners to design, deploy, and harden systems, remediate vulnerabilities, support audits (IL5/IL6/JWICS), and ensure trusted artifact delivery across environments.

Leads the design, automation, operation, and scaling of infrastructure across on-premises data centers, GCP, and AWS. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, configuration management, networking, load balancing, DNS, monitoring, observability, distributed systems administration, documentation, technical direction, project leadership, and mentoring. The role requires deep Linux, hardware, networking, cloud, storage, backup, and Python automation expertise.

Design, build, and operate secure cloud-native and edge infrastructure for classified and commercial environments. Own end-to-end platform outcomes, harden artifact pipelines for signed builds across cloud and air-gapped deployments, embed with product teams to advise on secure deployments, and support compliance/audit activities (STIGs, CVE remediation) to enable operation in IL5/IL6/JWICS environments.

Build and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test reliability, observability, and engineering productivity at scale. Own services from architecture through production, including SLOs and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional technical projects, partner with engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Architect, deploy, and improve hybrid infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, private-cloud, public-cloud, and containerized environments. Build automation with Terraform, Ansible, and Consul; establish infrastructure standards; optimize cost, performance, reliability, and scalability; improve observability; and lead capacity planning, disaster recovery testing, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with CloudOps, Technical Operations, and Platform teams.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Lead the design, implementation, and operation of Carefeed’s AWS cloud infrastructure. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, standardize logging, alerting, and observability tools, respond to production incidents, improve system reliability, and guide infrastructure and developer tooling practices. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business operations teams while owning complex infrastructure initiatives independently.

Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS and Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code. Develop automation, deployment pipelines, and production release processes. Contribute code to cloud services, manage networking and IAM, ensure availability and security, and respond to incidents while collaborating on observability and security practices.

Own and improve the Linux production infrastructure, including performance tuning, incident response, configuration management, container orchestration, networking, proxies, virtualization, secrets, observability, and automation. Develop Bash and Python tooling, manage infrastructure through Git and code review, support Redis and RabbitMQ, write postmortems and runbooks, and guide reliable system design in a regulated, revenue-sensitive fintech environment.

Lead cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, build tooling, release management, testing pipelines, and data infrastructure for aerospace software teams. Develop reproducible workflows spanning firmware, spacecraft software, ground systems, and cloud services. Manage versioned datasets, ML training infrastructure, cloud reliability, security, and cost. Partner with engineering and mission operations teams, resolve complex system issues, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers. The role may be onsite in Austin or Littleton, or remote with regular travel to Austin.

Deploy, integrate, operate, and optimize high-performance NFS storage for GPU-accelerated Kubernetes and AI platforms. Configure Linux storage and networking, integrate CSI storage into k0s and K0rdent clusters, automate provisioning through Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps, and build observability for capacity, performance, and reliability. Diagnose end-to-end storage issues across hybrid, edge, and air-gapped environments while establishing operational standards.

Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments. Develops Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and IAM governance. Supports production reliability, incident response, FinOps, FedRAMP and HIPAA compliance, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partners with product, security, and engineering teams to establish cloud standards, guardrails, and reference architectures.