Job Title: Devops/Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Hoffman Estates, IL
Skills Required
Networking (Production Issue)
Istio service mesh: Deep troubleshooting, sidecar injection, mTLS, Envoy proxy debugging
Flannel CNI: VXLAN/host-gw, overlay network debugging, MTU configuration
kube-proxy: iptables/IPVS modes, service endpoint sync issues, conntrack debugging
CoreDNS: Performance tuning, query debugging, NodeLocal DNSCache
Tools: tcpdump, Wireshark, packet analysis, distributed tracing (Jaeger) AI-Enhanced Operations with MCP
MCP Integration: Build and deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for infrastructure operations
Custom MCP Servers: Create MCP servers for Kubernetes API access, log querying, metrics retrieval, incident management
AI-Powered Troubleshooting: Connect Claude/LLMs to infrastructure via MCP for real-time diagnostics and remediation
Intelligent Automation: Build MCP-enabled AI agents for automated log analysis, anomaly detection, root cause analysis
Operational AI Assistants: Deploy MCP servers connecting AI to GitLab, Jira, Slack, PagerDuty for incident orchestration
Infrastructure Query Interface: Create MCP servers exposing Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes APIs to AI assistants
Self-Service Tools: Build AI-powered interfaces using MCP for team members to query infrastructure state