Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & CI/CD Lead

Photon; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own and manage infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations. You will build secure, automated platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly, reliably, and safely.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and IaC, plus cloud experience in GCP and/or AWS, Linux administration, and strong security and reliability practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Expert-level hands-on Terraform and IaC.
• Strong hands-on Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines.
• Production-level cloud experience with GCP and/or AWS.
• Proficiency in Docker and containerization.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, cloud security, and access control.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Understanding of reliability, monitoring, and operational best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform on GCP and/or AWS.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Containerize applications with Docker and support deployment workflows.
• Develop automation scripts to reduce manual tasks (Bash, Python).
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Drive cloud security, access control, cost optimization, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to streamline builds and releases.
• Mentor teammates and promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Linux

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

SRE / reliability

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Photon is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own and manage infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations. You will build secure, automated platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly, reliably, and safely.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and IaC, plus cloud experience in GCP and/or AWS, Linux administration, and strong security and reliability practices.