Top Hybrid DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Builds, maintains, monitors, and optimizes applications and cloud infrastructure for availability, reliability, and scalability. Designs automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code solutions, implements observability and SLOs, troubleshoots incidents and networking issues, and reduces operational toil. The role also guides teammates in SRE best practices, uses authorized AI tools for incident analysis, and collaborates across teams to proactively resolve complex platform and business problems.

Leads DevOps and development operations for web applications, building CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments across Azure environments. Serves as an Azure platform subject matter expert, supports Azure DevOps configurations, contributes to architecture and technology roadmaps, and ensures security, availability, recoverability, monitoring, and supportability standards. Collaborates with engineering, SQA, architecture, and security teams in an Agile/SAFe environment to design, deploy, stabilize, and continuously improve software delivery workflows.

Leads enterprise infrastructure strategy and platform engineering across OpenShift, Kubernetes, automation, virtualization, networking, and cloud transformation. Designs highly available Kubernetes platforms, develops Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD automation, establishes GitOps deployment standards, and drives security, observability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cost optimization. Provides technical leadership and mentoring while partnering with development, security, networking, and infrastructure teams and communicating platform strategy to senior leadership.

Provides production support and platform stability for Azure cloud services and APIs. Owns incident resolution, coordinates cross-team troubleshooting, leads root cause analysis, maintains monitoring and operational runbooks, and drives reliability improvements. The role also supports on-call response, release and rollback processes, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness across distributed cloud services.

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.

Design, build, and maintain developer APIs and tooling for Kafka; refactor Java/Spring code; implement CI/CD pipelines; ensure platform reliability and incident response; support high-volume Kafka platform operations; deploy secure cloud-native services on OpenShift using Kubernetes and observability tools like Datadog.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Prolaio’s cloud-native platform engineering capabilities across GCP environments. Owns observability, infrastructure tooling, access controls, data lifecycle management, platform services, automation, governance, and AI-enabled features. Partners with engineering, data, security, quality, product, and clinical teams to deliver secure, compliant, auditable healthcare data platforms. Builds and mentors a high-performing platform engineering organization supporting clinical research, analytics, data science, and enterprise data services.

Monitor applications, platforms, servers, hardware, and network connectivity in a 24/7 NOC. Investigate alerts, troubleshoot system and network errors, identify root causes, triage incidents to appropriate teams, document issues in tickets, and resolve problems within NOC scope using terminal commands. The role requires on-site day-shift work on a rotating schedule and strong networking, Linux, monitoring, communication, and troubleshooting skills.

Leads DevSecOps strategy and implementation for tax innovation projects, managing Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, vulnerability remediation, reliability, and performance optimization. Partners with cross-functional teams, manages client-facing initiatives, evaluates risk, drives innovation, and coaches high-performing teams. Uses Azure DevOps, GitHub, Python, PowerShell, DataDog, and Log Analytics to improve secure software delivery and operational excellence.

Lead the Buyer Cloud Tier-2 engineering team to ensure platform availability, performance, and operational excellence. Own incident response, RCA, release readiness, monitoring, automation, and cross-functional coordination while balancing hands-on troubleshooting, engineering initiatives, and people management.