Position: Lead DevOps Engineer

Department: IT Software Engineering and Delivery

Location: Chicago, IL- 3 days hybrid onsite (Local)

Duration: 6 months, TBD on extension 

Visa: USC, GC, EAD/GC, H4/EAD

Start Date: ASAP

Interview Process: TBD

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• Set up CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of resources to Cloud environments, all at medium to high level of complexity
• This is a hands-on role that develops and supports build and release automation pipelines. You will be part of the team that will deploy a highly available full software stack in public/ private clouds
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines. Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance.
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers.
• Proactively identifies system and process risks and recommend/implement process improvements
• Remediate gaps and support the automation requirements of continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Identify and develop metrics and dashboards to monitor adoption and maturity of DevOps
• Expertise in Docker/Containerization and Kubernetes
• Ability to contribute to architecture discussions around technology controls and their implementation in a DevOps/Cloud environment
• Work collaboratively with architecture, security and other engineers to estimate, design, code, deploy and support working software / technology components
• Foster the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment; planning, estimating, and completing tasks on
• Liaison with Agile Delivery Process teams to support necessary configurations/setup in Azure DevOps (ADO) for Agile ceremonies
• Participate in various technology Center of Excellence and evangelize DevSecOps methodologies.
• Work with development and support teams to design improved deployment, provisioning and integration workflows, ensure environments stability and identify areas and plans for improvement
• Contribute to new technology, vendor package and tool road mapping, evaluation and introduction
• Ensure compliance with Performance, Security, Availability, Recoverability standards and policies and provide Monitoring recommendations for tasks of low to medium level of complexity