DevOps Engineer

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision care

Disability leave

Parental leave

Paid time off

401k contribution

Job summary

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Engineer to bridge development and operations, designing and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. You will shape cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, and observability across production workloads.

The role involves on-call support, incident response, security governance, and collaboration with engineering, QA, security, and support teams to improve reliability and delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure via IaC and automation tools.
• Provide production operations support and ensure reliability and security across services.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Networking

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Job description

Heidrick & Struggles is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com

Who We Are:

Heidrick & Struggles is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

The Role:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between development and operations teams, ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software products. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining automated processes for building, testing, and deploying applications.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Engineering & Automation Design, build, operate, and continuously improve secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure supporting application workloads.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD capabilities, and automation that enable consistent, reliable, and efficient application delivery.
• Support containerized application platforms and cloud services across the application lifecycle.
• Production Operations & Reliability Provide Tier-3 production support for applications and cloud infrastructure, including ownership of complex incident investigation, resolution, root-cause analysis, and preventative improvements.
• Maintain and improve the availability, performance, resilience, scalability, and operational readiness of production services.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support critical production incidents outside normal business hours, as required.
• Observability & Continuous Improvement Maintain effective monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities that provide visibility into application and infrastructure health.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve reliability, performance, operational efficiency, and service recovery through engineering and automation.
• Security & Operational Governance Embed security, compliance, and appropriate controls into cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational processes.
• Support effective release, change management, access control, and production operating practices in accordance with organizational standards.
• Engineering Collaboration & Innovation Partner with development, QA, security, infrastructure, and support teams to improve application delivery, operational readiness, and production reliability.
• Apply automation, scripting, and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled engineering capabilities, to improve DevOps workflows and engineering effectiveness.
• Communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders regarding service health, incidents, releases, and operational improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5-7 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Experience designing, building, configuring, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline/AWS CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or comparable tools.
• Experience with AWS CodePipeline/AWS CodeBuild.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, GO).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with administration of Relational and NoSQL Managed Database Services.
• Knowledge of networking, security, and Linux system administration.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Docker Certified Associate).
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

Pay Range Guidelines for this Position:

The salary range for this position is 128000 USD to 150000 USD. Compensation is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience and skills.

Heidrick & Struggles offers discretionary bonuses (subject to eligibility requirements) and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability leave
• parental leave
• paid time off
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

Note: we have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in other locations.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.

Heidrick & Struggles is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and/or adjustments during our recruitment process.

If you are selected for an interview and require an accommodation and/or adjustment, please inform your Talent Acquisition professional.