Top Hybrid DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Designs and operates ServiceNow platform services and developer productivity tooling. Builds reusable CI/CD modules, automates provisioning and compliance, hardens pipelines with security controls, improves observability, and leads migrations/upgrades and incident response. Documents standards and runbooks, mentors engineers, and supports critical escalations to shorten delivery lead time and improve reliability.

Lead incident response and reliability improvements for iManage Cloud. Triage large-scale production issues, build observability and automation, run postmortems, partner with product and engineering, and proactively detect and eliminate systemic problems to improve uptime and customer experience.

Lead the SRE function for NinjaTrader’s trading platform, ensuring availability, scalability, performance, and 99.95% uptime. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes services, resolving production incidents, participating in a 12x7 on-call rotation, automating deployments and operational tasks, designing monitoring and alerting systems, establishing SLIs/SLOs, using Terraform for infrastructure automation, and implementing cloud security and compliance practices. The role also mentors engineers and collaborates cross-functionally on reliable platform delivery.

Lead technical ownership and resolution of complex production issues; coordinate cross-functional incident response; troubleshoot C#/.NET and JavaScript systems; analyze logs/metrics (Splunk, New Relic); drive reliability, observability, and customer-first improvements while mentoring teams.

Design and implement scalable backend services and distributed data systems. Build and maintain ETL pipelines and data warehousing, enforce data contracts, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily GCP). Lead system architecture, mentor engineers, own operational on-call responsibilities, and collaborate with product, bioinformatics, and ML teams to enable secure, compliant data and compute workflows for research and clinical use.

Leads the design, operation, security, governance, and continuous improvement of enterprise network, server, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. Manages Microsoft Azure, connectivity, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, patching, and identity integrations. Supervises infrastructure staff, contractors, and vendors; establishes standards, documentation, KPIs, roadmaps, and change-management practices. Partners with cybersecurity, service desk, development, and business stakeholders while delivering infrastructure projects and improving resilience, automation, compliance, and operational maturity.

Participate in AHEAD’s associate development program and complete technical training focused on public cloud solutions. Develop cloud engineering and consulting skills through certifications, shadowing, teamwork, problem-solving, and client project delivery. Candidates must have working knowledge of cloud solutions, be willing to travel more than 50% of the time, and possess existing U.S. work authorization without requiring visa sponsorship.

Supports critical Wealth Management applications by managing incidents, changes, problems, production stability, monitoring, log analysis, root-cause resolution, and release coordination. Partners with development, project, vendor, offshore, and managed-services teams in an Agile environment. The role also supports audits, security controls, continuous improvement, stakeholder communications, and after-hours or weekend response for high-severity production issues.

Leads a platform engineering team building and operating scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and on-premises Linux/Kubernetes environments. Responsibilities include hybrid platform architecture, infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi, monitoring and alerting, technical mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery of production systems.

Leads the global strategy, transformation, engineering, and lifecycle management of digital workplace, endpoint, desktop application, and productivity platforms. Oversees Windows endpoints, Intune, Microsoft 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, automation, security, service quality, vendors, budgets, and a global technology team. Partners with infrastructure, security, data, platform, architecture, and support leaders to modernize user-facing technology through cloud-based, automated, resilient operating models.