Title: Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid
Duration: Full Time – Direct Hire
 
 
What it’s like to work here
We bring people together. We are committed to a high performing, engaged workforce, and to supporting the communities we serve across Illinois and Wisconsin. Our Buddy Program pairs new hires with tenured employees to guide their onboarding. Our professional development and training opportunities through upskilling, mentorship programs, and tuition reimbursement allow employees to grow their career with us.
 
What You’ll do
The Lead DevOps Engineer will partner with IT Delivery Teams to ensure code, services and products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. Work requires scripting and coding with an eye on automation and continuous integration so that deployments can be broken down and distributed across multiple development and test teams for the implementation of web-based application development projects. 
This is a hands-on role that requires analytical thinking, technical aptitude and an ability to work closely with members of the development, infrastructure security, and solution architecture teams (i.e., engineers and testers). Resources to do the job require reliance on technical knowledge of Azure DevOps implementation and administration, .NET, structured programming concepts, containerization, micro services, architecture and process enhancement to support the development and testing efforts.  General direction is received from the Sr. Manager, Modern Engineering.
 
How you’ll make an impact:
Enhancing Automation and Efficiency: The Lead DevOps Engineer will significantly improve the software development lifecycle by implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and ensuring seamless integration and deployment, thereby enhancing overall efficiency, and reducing time-to-market for new features and services.
Strengthening Security and Compliance: By implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with performance, security, availability, and recoverability standards, the Lead DevOps Engineer will play a crucial role in safeguarding the IT infrastructure and maintaining the integrity of its operations.
Fostering Innovation and Collaboration: The Lead DevOps Engineer will drive the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with various teams to design and deploy innovative solutions, ultimately contributing to the technological advancement and competitive edge.
 

• What you can expect:
• Set up CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of resources to Cloud environments, all at medium to high level of complexity
• This is a hands-on role that develops and supports build and release automation pipelines. You will be part of the team that will deploy a highly available full software stack in public/ private clouds
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines. Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance.
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers.
• Proactively identifies system and process risks and recommend/implement process improvements
• Remediate gaps and support the automation requirements of continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Identify and develop metrics and dashboards to monitor adoption and maturity of DevOps
• Expertise in Docker/Containerization and Kubernetes
• Ability to contribute to architecture discussions around technology controls and their implementation in a DevOps/Cloud environment
• Work collaboratively with architecture, security and other engineers to estimate, design, code, deploy and support working software / technology components
• Foster the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment; planning, estimating, and completing tasks on
• Liaison with Agile Delivery Process teams to support necessary configurations/setup in Azure DevOps (ADO) for Agile ceremonies
• Participate in various technology Center of Excellence and evenagelise DevSecOps methodologies.
• Work with development and support teams to design improved deployment, provisioning and integration workflows, ensure environments stability and identify areas and plans for improvement
• Contribute to new technology, vendor package and tool road mapping, evaluation and introduction
• Ensure compliance with Performance, Security, Availability, Recoverability standards and policies and provide Monitoring recommendations for tasks of low to medium level of complexity

 
What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of demonstrable software engineering and DevOps experience
• 7+ years working in SCRUM/Agile software development environment
• Experience deploying and administering Continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus or Bamboo
• Expertise with Infrastructure cloud tools such as Terraform, Docker, Podman, Helm etc.
• Expertise with integrating Static Application Security Testing (SAST) using Checkmarx and other tools
• Expertise with Code quality scans using Sonarqube and others
• Expertise with automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration and system testing
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Strong cloud engineering experience primarily with Azure and AWS.
• Expertise in working with Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chef for infrastructure automation and configuration
• Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes on platforms such as AWS ECS and AWS EKS
• Expertise with programming languages such as Python, C++ is a must
• Expertise with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Datadog and others
• Expertise with SQL databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases like AWS Dynamo DB and MongoDB, graph DB such as Neo4J, AWS Neptune.
• Expertise with project management and workflow tools and concepts such as Jira, Agile, Scrum/Kanban, etc.
• Proficiency in cross-platform scripting language and build tools (Python,ANT,Artifactory,Groovy, MS Build,NuGet)
• Proficiency in OOP software development using C# or similar languages
• Ability to define scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of deployment strategies using Docker for containerization
• Experience with pair programming using GitHub Copilot
• Strong communication/presentation skills and ability to explain protocol, processes, and cloud architecture with team and management.

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $130000.00/yearly.