Infra Lead: Cloud, DevOps & Tooling Architect

Midwest Startups; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Career growth

Job summary

Carefeed is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and own the cloud infrastructure for our operations platform serving senior living communities. You will lead the build-out of scalable systems, tooling, and CI/CD processes to empower product teams while ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.

In this hybrid Chicago role, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and drive standardization of observability, incident response, and deployment practices in AWS (ECS/Aurora)

Qualifications

• 6+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles with production experience.
• Strong focus on developer tooling and enabling engineering teams.
• Experience with AWS ECS/Aurora and Terraform tooling.
• Proficient in CI/CD systems and automation.
• Independent, ownership-driven problem solver.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the cloud infrastructure that supports our products, with an eye towards simplicity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Build and maintain a CI/CD pipeline that is easy for product developers to use and accelerates the release of new software.
• Drive the adoption and standardization of operational tools across our engineering team, such as shared logging, alerting and observability tooling.
• Respond to production incidents, contribute to blameless postmortems, and continuously improve system reliability.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and business operations teams as an infrastructure expert.

Skills

Infrastructure

SRE/DevOps

Backend engineering

Cloud computing

Automation

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

AWS (EC2/ECS/Aurora)

Terraform

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Carefeed is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design and own the cloud infrastructure for our operations platform serving senior living communities. You will lead the build-out of scalable systems, tooling, and CI/CD processes to empower product teams while ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.

In this hybrid Chicago role, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and drive standardization of observability, incident response, and deployment practices in AWS (ECS/Aurora)