Senior DevOps Engineer

Wespath Benefits and Investments • Glenview, IL

16d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wespath is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage how code and configuration move from source control through environments into Production. The role covers CI/CD pipelines, source and configuration management standards, release automation, and environment promotion. The engineer partners with application development, infrastructure, security, quality assurance, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering to modernize delivery practices, reduce manual effort, and improve deployment speed, safety, reliability, and auditability.

The position also supports change management and audit requirements, production releases outside business hours, troubleshooting across build and deployment workflows, and the creation of documentation, runbooks, standards, and reusable templates. The role is based in Glenview, Illinois, with a hybrid working arrangement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional technology experience, including 5+ years in DevOps, release engineering, CI/CD automation, infrastructure automation, or related delivery engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted capabilities into CI/CD pipelines or DevOps workflows to improve automation, troubleshooting, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Strong practical knowledge of Git-based source control, branching strategies, pull requests, and release workflow practices.
• Ability to independently automate build, test, packaging, configuration, infrastructure, deployment, and operational support tasks.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and their integration into automated delivery pipelines.
• Experience implementing controlled environment promotion and release management practices.
• Capability to support and troubleshoot cloud, server, application platform, or enterprise hosting environments.
• Effective technical communication, documentation, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills in complex technical environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable application build, test, release, and deployment processes.
• Administer and govern Azure DevOps and the broader DevSecOps delivery toolchain, including repositories, branching policies, build agents, artifact repositories, service connections, and pipeline security scanning tools.
• Establish and maintain source code and configuration management standards, owning how code and configuration move between environments.
• Build reusable, self-service pipeline templates and paved-road standards for delivery teams to adopt within approved guardrails.
• Implement GitOps, blue/green, and progressive deployment approaches, including automated rollback and release gates where appropriate.
• Integrate Infrastructure as Code modules and platform services into delivery pipelines to provision and promote consistent environments.
• Integrate automated testing, quality gates, and security checks into delivery workflows in partnership with Quality Assurance, Security, and Platform Engineering.
• Apply secure delivery practices, including secrets management, least-privilege service connections, vulnerability awareness, and policy checks.
• Ensure pipelines produce traceable evidence of approvals, testing, and deployments to support change management and audit requirements.
• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to embed release-readiness criteria, monitoring, logging, alerting, and deployment health validation into delivery pipelines.
• Use AI tools to improve efficiency and reliability within build and deployment pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to modernize legacy deployment processes, improve developer experience, and increase release frequency and safety.
• Automate repeatable build, test, packaging, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks to reduce manual effort and improve consistency across environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, packaging, deployment, configuration, and environment-related issues.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and reusable templates that improve delivery supportability and knowledge sharing.
• Support production releases outside of business hours.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and well-being benefits available from day one.
• 8% employer contribution to retirement plan, with an additional match up to 2% on day one.
• 22 days of PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Bonus opportunity and customary benefits.

What This Job Offers

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