Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS, Containers, CI/CD, Terraform

Beyond Finance; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

Paid PTO & holidays

401(k) matching

Job summary

Beyond Finance in Chicago is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on IaC and GitOps.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning with Terraform/OpenTofu, and ensure security, reliability, and high availability across services, containers, and data stores.

The role offers a collaborative culture, competitive salary, and opportunities to drive major initiatives in a fast-growing fintech.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform/Open To fu, Helm).
• Seasoned in orchestrating project prioritization and guiding teams through execution.
• Strong focus on fostering collaboration and developing strategic roadmaps.
• Extensive experience with AWS and its core services (ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, Etc.).
• Solid experience with CI/CD tools (AWS Codepipeline, Spacelift, CircleCI).
• Strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with RDS/Aurora infrastructure management.
• Strong Debugging, Monitoring, and Triage skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our cloud infrastructure, focusing on AWS services.
• Implement and maintain our Continuous Delivery pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software releases.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues, ensuring high availability and system reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and scalability.
• Implement and manage security best practices across our cloud environment.
• Promote and contribute to a High Quality Code Base through code reviews, best practices, and clean documentation.

Skills

DevOps experience

IaC expertise

AWS core services

CI/CD tooling

Containerization

RDS/Aurora management

Monitoring/Triage

Ownership of projects

Roadmap planning

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

OpenTofu

Spacelift

CircleCI

CodePipeline

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

Job description

Beyond Finance in Chicago is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on IaC and GitOps.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning with Terraform/OpenTofu, and ensure security, reliability, and high availability across services, containers, and data stores.

The role offers a collaborative culture, competitive salary, and opportunities to drive major initiatives in a fast-growing fintech.