Lead DevOps Engineer / Development Experience / Hybrid / Chicago

Our client, a long-standing government-sponsored financial organization serving institutions across Illinois and Wisconsin, is hiring a full-time Lead DevOps Engineer to help advance their modern engineering and DevSecOps initiatives. You’ll work with Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, CI / CD pipelines, containerization, automation tooling, and cloud technologies within a highly impactful environment that supports mortgage lending and community development across the Midwest.

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative engineering culture known for strong work-life balance, structured onboarding, and career-long learning. The organization offers mentorship programs, a Buddy Program for new hires, tuition reimbursement, and ongoing upskilling initiatives. If you’re looking for a role where you can drive DevSecOps maturity, shape architectural decisions, and modernize systems used across a major financial ecosystem, this team will value your expertise from day one.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering and DevOps experience
• 7+ years working in SCRUM / Agile environments
• Experience deploying / administering CI tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus, Bamboo)
• Strong cloud experience with Azure and AWS
• Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, Docker, Podman, Helm)
• Experience integrating SAST tools (Checkmarx or similar)
• Code quality scanning (SonarQube or similar)
• Automated testing experience (unit, integration, system)
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and / or Chef for automation
• Docker and Kubernetes experience (ECS, EKS, etc.)
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++
• Application Performance Monitoring (Datadog or similar)
• SQL / NoSQL experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Neo4J, Neptune)
• Jira / Agile workflow proficiency
• Cross-platform scripting and build tools (Python, ANT, Artifactory, Groovy, MSBuild, NuGet)
• OOP development experience with C# or similar
• Ability to design scalable, secure CI / CD pipelines
• Understanding of Docker deployment strategies
• Experience with pair programming using GitHub Copilot
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Desired Skills & Experience

What You Will Be Doing

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Daily Responsibilities

The Offer

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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.