DevOps Engineer

AMD; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Chicago seeks a DevOps Engineer who has shipped PagerDuty to production, learned from the experience, and wants ownership and collaboration.

You will drive testing, security, and observability, and translate napkin ideas into OpenShift prototypes for AMD's next IL expansion. AMD is a candor-rich team based in Chicago, offering remote-first work with a strong mentorship culture and a generous benefits package.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating in a similar DevOps Engineer role.
• Willingness to relocate to Chicago, IL or work remotely.
• Familiarity with AMD-scale workflows or the appetite to reach them.
• Bias toward asking questions before costly mistakes.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of testing, security, and observability best practices.
• Own Nginx platform work enabling AMD's IL expansion.
• Translate ideas into OpenShift prototypes for rapid validation.
• Lead postmortems to prevent recurring issues in Chicago.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the AMD stack.
• Hunt down latency spikes and improve system performance.

Skills

AWS Solutions Architect depth

AWS Lambda curiosity

Growth mindset

DevOps experience

Willing to relocate to Chicago

Remote work capable

Question-driven approach

AMD-scale workflows familiarity

Tools

Nginx platform

OpenShift

AWS

Job description

The DevOps Engineer we want has shipped PagerDuty to production, broken it, and learned more from the second part than the first. A $123,000 - $167,000 DevOps Engineer role for a self-starter who wants ownership, collaboration, and a genuine path forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Carry the Nginx platform work that makes AMD's next IL expansion boring
• Translate a napkin idea from AMD founders into an OpenShift agile prototype
• Replace the brittle Strategic Planning hack with an Innovation solution that survives Chicago scale
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at AMD can explain
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the AMD stack
• Drive the Nginx incident postmortem that stops the Chicago outage from recurring

What You'll Bring

• Equal parts AWS Solutions Architect depth and AWS Lambda curiosity
• Proven Growth Mindset judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit
• Roughly 7+ years operating in a similar DevOps Engineer position
• Willingness to relocate to Chicago, IL, or to make remote work
• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• Familiarity with AMD-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them

AMD is a candor-rich team based in Chicago, IL, building products that customers rely on every day. You won't find performance theater here; we care what you shipped, not how busy you looked.

With $123,000 - $167,000 as the anchor, expect mentorship, a benefits package worth bragging about, and the latitude to work remote-first.

Live feed: the Chicago, IL role remains unfilled and actively recruiting.

We're looking for the person who reads technology job posts and thinks I could fix that.