Senior DevOps Engineer — Hybrid & AI-Driven CI/CD

Wespath Benefits and Investments; Glenview (IL); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

8% retirement contribution with match

22 days PTO + 12 holidays

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Wespath Benefits and Investments in Glenview, Illinois is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and govern CI/CD pipelines, manage Azure DevOps, and implement modern deployment patterns. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, security, and collaboration with SRE and QA teams to ensure reliable releases.

The candidate will automate tasks, integrate AI-assisted capabilities, and support production releases, with a hybrid work arrangement and competitive compensation ranging from

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional technology experience, including 5+ years in DevOps, release engineering, CI/CD automation, infrastructure automation, or related delivery engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted capabilities into CI/CD pipelines or DevOps workflows to improve automation, troubleshooting, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Strong practical knowledge of Git-based source control, branching strategies, pull requests, and release workflow practices.
• Ability to independently automate build, test, packaging, configuration, infrastructure, deployment, and operational support tasks.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and their integration into automated delivery pipelines.
• Experience implementing controlled environment promotion and release management practices.
• Capability to support and troubleshoot cloud, server, application platform, or enterprise hosting environments.
• Effective technical communication, documentation, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills in complex technical environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable application build, test, release, and deployment processes.
• Administer and govern Azure DevOps and the broader DevSecOps delivery toolchain, including repositories, branching policies, build agents, artifact repositories, service connections, and pipeline security scanning tools.
• Establish and maintain source code and configuration management standards as the authoritative owner of how code and configuration move between environments.
• Build reusable, self-service pipeline templates and paved-road standards that delivery teams can adopt within approved guardrails.
• Implement modern deployment patterns, including GitOps, blue/green, and progressive deployment approaches, with automated rollback and release gates where appropriate.
• Integrate Infrastructure as Code modules and platform services into delivery pipelines to provision and promote consistent environments.
• Integrate automated testing, quality gates, and security checks into delivery workflows in partnership with Quality Assurance, Security, and Platform Engineering.
• Apply secure delivery practices, including secrets management, least-privilege service connections, vulnerability awareness, and policy checks.
• Support change management and audit requirements by ensuring pipelines produce traceable evidence of approvals, testing, and deployments.
• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to embed release-readiness criteria, monitoring, logging, alerting, and deployment of health validation into delivery pipelines.
• Use AI tools to improve efficiency and reliability within build and deployment pipelines.Identify opportunities to modernize legacy deployment processes, improve developer experience, and increase the frequency and safety of releases.
• Automate repeatable build, test, packaging, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks to reduce manual effort and improve consistency across environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, packaging, deployment, configuration, and environment-related issues.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and reusable templates that improve delivery supportability and knowledge sharing.
• Support production releases outside of business hours.

Job description

Wespath Benefits and Investments in Glenview, Illinois is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and govern CI/CD pipelines, manage Azure DevOps, and implement modern deployment patterns. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, security, and collaboration with SRE and QA teams to ensure reliable releases.

The candidate will automate tasks, integrate AI-assisted capabilities, and support production releases, with a hybrid work arrangement and competitive compensation ranging from