Seeking a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a fast growing startup in Chicago.
Onsite in River North area of Chicago
Salary Range: 160-175K + Bonus
Key Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Development:
- Architect, oversee, and maintain cloud infrastructure for both development and production environments.
- Automation and Collaboration:
- Partner with software engineering teams to build and enhance automation tools that optimize deployment and operational workflows.
- Ensure that our infrastructure and tools are agile and support the integration of new technologies and features.
- Security and Compliance:
- Establish and enforce security protocols and IT standards to mitigate risks and align with company policies.
- Business and Technical Integration:
- Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ensure high availability and implement disaster recovery systems to safeguard operations.
- Team Leadership:
- Build and manage a high-performing team to scale our organization in response to growing demands.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure roles, with extensive hands-on experience with AWS services, including Lambda, EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
- Versed in managing high-scale, high-throughput environments and distributed microservices.
- Proficient in infrastructure as code; Terraform
- Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiar with CI/CD tools and monitoring solutions.
