Top Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure, observability platforms, Kubernetes workloads, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines. Develop automation tools and AI-assisted workflows, establish secure logging, metrics, and tracing standards, optimize cloud environments, and collaborate with security and engineering teams. The role also includes troubleshooting, documentation, code reviews, operational playbooks, and knowledge sharing.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and cloud infrastructure. Automate provisioning and deployments, monitor system health and performance, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, and improve platform reliability. Implement security controls, access management, observability, and infrastructure-as-code practices while supporting scalable distributed systems and developer infrastructure.

Build and maintain backend services, REST APIs, cloud workspace provisioning systems, and resource orchestration infrastructure. Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security while developing integrations, SDKs, and developer tools. Contribute to architecture and ship features from concept to production. The role requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js skills, backend and database knowledge, and familiarity with Docker, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.

Build and scale infrastructure supporting an AI-driven healthcare platform. Responsibilities include CI/CD pipelines, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure management, autoscaling, observability, capacity planning, cost optimization, developer tooling, automation, incident response, and security and compliance integration.

Build and own Keycard’s infrastructure platform, including bring-your-own-cloud deployments, multi-tenant and single-tenant cells, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, releases, upgrades, observability, security guardrails, and audited break-glass workflows. Develop tooling and agents for installation, diagnostics, and operational support. Define compatibility matrices, deprecation policies, and upgrade processes while partnering directly with enterprise cloud and security teams.

Administer Red Hat and Windows servers across on-premises and AWS environments; manage performance, capacity, patching, PKI certificates, vulnerability scans, and SCAP/STIG compliance. Support audits, application vulnerability remediation, security operations, and technical issues for development, database, customer support, and external partner teams. Maintain approximately 34 servers and assist with infrastructure projects and enterprise tools.

Designs cloud architecture and Infrastructure as Code, builds CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, and deploys systems to AWS and air-gapped environments. Monitors services using OpenTelemetry, Sentry, and SigNoz; manages secrets and configuration; enforces CMMC compliance; and supports bare-metal infrastructure, networking, identity providers, and Kubernetes platforms.

Designs, provisions, and operates infrastructure from bare metal through private-cloud and virtualization platforms. Performs Linux administration, automation, configuration management, CI/CD, monitoring, security hardening, networking, data center installations, and service integration. Troubleshoots incidents, maintains documentation, evaluates technical solutions, and mentors student workers. The hybrid role requires at least three onsite days weekly and supports research computing infrastructure.

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.

Administer and optimize Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, monitoring, security, and backup. Automate administrative tasks with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph, troubleshoot incidents, support hybrid environments, document operations, and collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, service desk, and business teams. The role also contributes to governance, service reliability, licensing, cost optimization, and on-call support.

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.

Design, build, and operate Airbnb’s large-scale change data capture and batch export platforms. Improve reliability, performance, and efficiency across multi-tenant data infrastructure, collaborate with partner teams and internal customers, contribute to platform architecture, and participate in on-call operations. The role requires hands-on development, testing, debugging, and ownership of complex distributed systems supporting critical business functions.

Design and build data infrastructure automation, observability, health tooling, dashboards, and system improvements for large-scale object storage platforms. Lead technical designs and feature rollouts across services, improve fleet stability and throughput, automate hardware lifecycle processes, and partner with on-call teams to reduce operational toil and incidents.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Own and scale multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and Hetzner. Manage Kubernetes production environments, Terraform infrastructure, observability, monitoring, CI/CD, incident response, networking, security, and cloud cost optimization. Partner with engineering teams on architecture, deployment reliability, developer experience, and AI workload infrastructure. Participate in L2 on-call rotations and lead lasting improvements to infrastructure resilience and performance.

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.

Designs and deploys network infrastructure for office openings, relocations, and refreshes. Configures firewalls, switches, wireless networks, VPNs, SD-WAN, routing, and related services. Coordinates with ISPs, contractors, and vendors; troubleshoots connectivity issues; creates technical documentation; and supports cutovers, validation, handoff, and ongoing operations. The role owns technical project tasks from planning through completion and requires occasional off-hours work and regular travel.

Administers and architects middleware platforms supporting critical banking applications, including WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, and Java environments. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, tuning, patching, production support, deployment automation, high-availability design, regulatory releases, and customer consultation. Develops infrastructure tools, templates, playbooks, and automation using technologies such as Ansible, Python, and Terraform while ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and policies.

Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational systems. Owns infrastructure architecture, provisioning, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, reliability, cost optimization, and incident response. Leads SRE practices, resolves complex production issues, supports distributed systems and microservices, and collaborates with Product and Engineering teams. Participates in on-call rotations and drives durable solutions that improve platform availability and performance.

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.

Lead technical direction for a central infrastructure team supporting all product engineering. Design and maintain AWS infrastructure, Terraform modules, CI/CD workflows, observability, security, networking, cost-visibility tooling, and operational platforms. Coordinate multiple initiatives, improve reliability and incident response, establish paved roads adopted by feature teams, guide infrastructure strategy, and coach engineers across the organization.

Designs reference architectures for AI and data center networks, including BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, RoCEv2, and QoS. Builds and operates labs to qualify switches, NICs, and network operating systems; tests interoperability and performance; reproduces customer issues; and diagnoses routing, congestion, packet loss, MTU, and latency problems across GPU, fabric, and storage paths. Documents best practices, develops automation, collaborates with vendors and internal teams, and feeds findings into product development.

Develop and maintain infrastructure for rapid software prototyping and deployment across cloud, private cloud, and bare-metal environments. Manage servers and Kubernetes clusters, configure GPU systems for large language models, optimize performance, build monitoring and alerting, and advise on localized data-center deployments. The role also requires software engineering, Linux administration, security awareness, automation, and collaboration across international teams.

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

Build and operate internal infrastructure solutions for engineering teams. Responsibilities include resolving infrastructure requests, executing cloud workload and storage migrations, developing Terraform modules, Helm charts, CLIs, and automation in Go or Python, documenting runbooks, and creating observability dashboards for cost, capacity, and usage. The role requires production Kubernetes and public cloud experience, infrastructure-as-code and GitOps expertise, and cross-functional project delivery.