DevOps Engineer

Inspire11 • Chicago, IL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Inspire11 is a full-service consulting firm that partners with technology leaders to advance digital, analytics, and technology initiatives. This role works directly with clients across multiple industries and leads collaborative teams in delivering technology projects. The position requires willingness and ability to work onsite at an Inspire11 or client location, depending on project needs, to support in-person collaboration and relationship building.

The posting describes a Senior Application Architect role and its responsibilities and qualifications, although the listed job title is DevOps Engineer. The role leads projects through requirements gathering, development, implementation, and rollout; designs, develops, implements, and supports complex applications; and contributes to application and system architecture and development.

Inspire11 offers full-time employees medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; a connectivity stipend; an Employee Assistance Program; a 401(k) plan with company matching; tax-advantaged savings accounts; self-managed PTO; paid holidays; and paid parental leave for eligible employees. Other programs include charitable donation matching and discretionary professional-development reimbursement for qualifying employees.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack development experience and comfort working in a consulting and onsite client environment.
• Skilled in the latest version of JavaScript and current modern JavaScript frameworks such as Node and React.
• Skilled in the latest version of at least one of Java, C#, Node.js, or Python, and current with modern features.
• Deep skill in creating and architecting React components and understanding the nuances of React development.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot and building APIs using Spring elements.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Well versed in AWS and application deployment.
• Enjoy working directly with clients to take projects from inception to completion.
• Ability and interest in mentoring and leading engineers.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments and handling varied responsibilities.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite at the Inspire11 or client location depending on project needs.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout employment; Inspire11 cannot sponsor employment visas.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in learning new technologies and commitment to continuous learning.
• Interest in contributing to the culture of modern technology development within the company.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with multiple clients in various industries, leading a collaborative team of developers.
• Interact with key decision makers, including CIOs, CTOs, directors, and business stakeholders, to deliver and drive projects.
• Lead projects through the full life cycle, from requirements gathering and development through implementation and rollout.
• Design, develop, implement, and support complex critical applications.
• Develop architecture designs, processes, standards, and guidelines.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of new and existing applications, systems, and components.
• Mentor and lead other engineers on the team.
• Choose platforms, tools, languages, and frameworks appropriate to specific software solutions.

Benefits

• Medical insurance plans, with premiums partially paid by the Company and partially by the employee.
• Dental insurance plans, with premiums partially paid by the Company and partially by the employee.
• Vision insurance plans, with premiums partially paid by the Company and partially by the employee.
• Short-term disability coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Annual connectivity stipend of $325.
• Employee Assistance Program, including counseling and crisis support.
• 401(k) plan with a company match of 100% of employee contributions up to 3% of salary, subject to a vesting schedule.
• Access, depending on eligibility and elections, to flexible spending, limited-purpose flexible spending, healthcare savings, dependent care savings, and commuter benefit accounts.
• Self-managed paid time off with no predetermined upper limit, subject to advance request and supervisor approval.
• Eight paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees: up to 12 weeks for birthing parents and up to 6 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Charitable giving match of up to $500 annually for qualifying charities after one year of employment.
• Discretionary reimbursement for certain professional development course materials and costs for qualifying employees after six months, with supervisor approval.
• Regular gifts of company clothing, office items, and swag.
• Potential periodic or annual bonuses for eligible employees, subject to company and individual performance and other stated conditions.
• Potential annual stock options for high-performing employees, subject to performance review, recommendation, leadership approval, and vesting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed