DevOps Engineer: Ownership, OpenShift & Nginx Reliability

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; 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

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.