Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid, Chicago)

Objective Partners; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Objective Partners in Chicago, IL, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, scale, and optimize mission-critical cloud infrastructure for high-traffic, real-time systems. You will lead architecture, deployment, and performance tuning across AWS and Kubernetes, while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional initiatives.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, engineering, and operations teams to align technical specifications with business goals and to deliver resilient,

Qualifications

• Experience in systems-level development with C/C++/Go.
• Distributed systems design and operation in AWS.
• Kubernetes and microservices orchestration expertise.
• Unix/Linux systems, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience with Agile SDLC.
• Ability to collaborate across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain high-throughput cloud environments.
• Optimize performance across distributed back-end components.
• Lead full-lifecycle engineering from design to release.
• Guide system design and infrastructure resiliency.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to align tech and business objectives.
• Mentor junior engineers and perform code reviews.
• Document system specs and evaluation plans.
• Troubleshoot production issues and automate deployments.

Skills

C/C++/Go

AWS

Kubernetes

Unix/Linux

Distributed systems

SDLC

Agile

Time-zone collaboration

Tools

Nginx

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Objective Partners in Chicago, IL, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, scale, and optimize mission-critical cloud infrastructure for high-traffic, real-time systems. You will lead architecture, deployment, and performance tuning across AWS and Kubernetes, while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional initiatives.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, engineering, and operations teams to align technical specifications with business goals and to deliver resilient,