Lead DevOps Engineer
About The Position
The Lead DevOps Engineer will own the AWS infrastructure behind a multi-region platform at a fast-growing technology company. This hands-on role involves designing and operating infrastructure, writing CloudFormation and ideally Node.js, leading infrastructure projects from design through production, and guiding a small engineering team. The engineer will work closely with engineering, security, and product teams to keep the platform reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient as it grows. The position is full-time and direct hire, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, with a hybrid schedule that is usually no more than three days onsite per week. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required. Local candidates receive first consideration, and C2C arrangements are unavailable.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, site reliability, or systems engineering.
- At least 2 years of lead experience; hands-on managers are considered.
- Extensive real-world CloudFormation experience, including authoring and maintaining complex templates, managing stacks across environments, and handling updates, rollbacks, drift detection, and the full stack lifecycle.
- Expert, hands-on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, and Elastic Beanstalk.
- A strong track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
- A solid grasp of AWS security, including IAM, networking, encryption, and least-privilege access.
- Strong Linux systems experience.
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency (green card), and authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on production experience with Node.js code, such as services, automation or internal tools built, or Node.js applications deployed.
- Experience debugging systems and applications in production, including database performance tuning.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers on infrastructure projects.
- Experience running multi-region or globally distributed AWS environments.
- Experience with containers on ECS or EKS.
- Cloud cost optimization or FinOps experience.
- A background in fast-growing, high-scale engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation as the primary Infrastructure-as-Code tool.
- Own AWS environments for high availability, scalability, failover, and security across multiple regions.
- Build and maintain Node.js tools and services for automation, deployment workflows, monitoring, and platform operations.
- Design and run CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Set up and manage logging, monitoring, and alerting across AWS environments.
- Lead infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and pipelines.
- Improve performance, reliability, security posture, and cloud cost efficiency.
- Lead infrastructure projects and mentor engineers on the team.
- Maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, automation, and operational processes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
