Senior DevOps Engineer

Forward Progress Staffing; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Progress Staffing is seeking a Senior DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve our foundation engineering. The role focuses on reliability, automation, scalability, and cloud architecture across large-scale data applications.

Key experience includes IaC, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, security, and supporting high-volume platforms. This hands-on senior position offers meaningful ownership and close work with technology teams.

Qualifications

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation
• CI/CD architecture and deployment automation
• Containers and modern cloud environments
• Monitoring, observability and production reliability
• Security and cloud best practices
• Experience with data-intensive/high-volume platforms
• Ability to evolve infrastructure and plan for future needs

Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on senior role with ownership of the environment
• Collaborate across teams to ensure reliability and scalability
• Drive improvements in infrastructure while adopting best practices

Skills

IaC & automation

CI/CD pipelines

Containers & cloud

Monitoring & reliability

Security best practices

Data-heavy platforms

Infra evolution

Job description

**Direct candidates only. No C2C or third-party submissions. No current or future sponsorship available. Third-party inquiries will not receive a response.

Looking for a Senior DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys building the foundation engineering teams depend on.

The environment supports large-scale data applications and cloud-based platforms, so the scope goes well beyond maintaining CI/CD pipelines - you’ll have ownership across reliability, automation, scalability, and cloud architecture.

Key experience:

• Infrastructure as Code / automation
• CI/CD architecture and deployment automation
• Containers and modern cloud environments
• Monitoring, observability and production reliability
• Security and cloud best practices
• Experience supporting data-intensive or high-volume platforms
• Ability to improve existing infrastructure while building for what's next

This is a hands-on senior role for someone who wants to stay close to the technology and have meaningful ownership of the environment.