Sr. DevOps Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, Terraform, Cloud Networking)

U.S. Bank • Chicago, IL

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure platforms across AWS and hybrid environments. This hands-on engineering role requires deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Cloud WAN, enterprise networking, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. The ideal candidate will own infrastructure solutions from architecture through operations, driving reliability, scalability, security, and automation across critical business platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, SQS, Aurora, Secrets Manager, KMS, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automated provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and infrastructure deployment pipelines within DevOps environments.
• Deep understanding of AWS networking and hybrid connectivity, including VPC, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, and load-balancing architectures.
• Experience supporting multi-account AWS environments, cross-account access models, governance frameworks, and cloud security best practices.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting high-availability and disaster recovery solutions across multiple regions and environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure and connectivity challenges.
• Experience working in financial services, payments, PCI-regulated, or other highly regulated environments, with a focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform across multiple accounts, regions, and environments.
• Architect and support enterprise networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53 DNS, routing, and load balancing.
• Develop, implement, and validate multi-region disaster recovery strategies to ensure platform resilience and business continuity.
• Build, optimize, and maintain GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins pipelines for automated infrastructure provisioning, testing, deployment, and governance.
• Support cloud modernization and migration initiatives involving containers, databases, serverless technologies, messaging platforms, observability tools, and security controls.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, and network connectivity issues, driving root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Partner with network, security, application development, and platform engineering teams to deliver secure, compliant, and highly available solutions.
• Continuously improve infrastructure automation, operational processes, monitoring, documentation, and platform reliability through Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401(k) contribution and pension

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior