Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

The University of Chicago seeks a senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate Globus cloud services used by researchers worldwide. You will own infrastructure, security, and automation across multiple AWS accounts, integrating CI/CD and IaC practices.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, implement best practices, and lead on-call rotations, incident responses, and reliability improvements in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Education: college or university degree in related field.
• Work Experience: 5–7 years in a related job discipline.
• Certifications: ---

Responsibilities

• Architect and design cloud infrastructure across production and development environments.
• Develop, test, document, and maintain software and infrastructure as code.
• Maintain machine-image and deployment supply chain via AWS CodeBuild and SSM.
• Monitor and migrate to Prometheus, improve observability.
• Lead incident response and write root-cause analyses.

Skills

AWS at scale

Python

Bash

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Nagios/NRPE

PagerDuty

Job description

The University of Chicago seeks a senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate Globus cloud services used by researchers worldwide. You will own infrastructure, security, and automation across multiple AWS accounts, integrating CI/CD and IaC practices.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, implement best practices, and lead on-call rotations, incident responses, and reliability improvements in a hybrid work environment.