Senior DevOps Engineer — Hybrid FinTech Platform Equity

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Equity

Professional Development Budget

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to architect and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure for a fintech leader. The role emphasizes DevOps-first culture, automated release pipelines, and capacity planning across engineering teams.

You will drive tooling and security-centric CI/CD strategies, support production readiness, and partner with product teams to ensure high availability and scale while enabling a hybrid work schedule with on-site collaboration in the

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps/platform engineering on multi-region cloud environments.
• Strong software engineering foundation in Python, Go, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and enterprise AWS.
• Extensive IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proven CI/CD pipelines with a security-focused approach and Agile distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain multi-region, multi-cloud platforms for high uptime and scalability.
• Build declarative infrastructure and automated release pipelines to reduce friction.
• Lead discovery and adoption of next-gen developer tooling, monitoring, and capacity testing.
• Partner with product engineering to ensure security and performance of code and cloud environments.
• Advocate data-driven DevOps practices to streamline software delivery.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Security

Agile

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to architect and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure for a fintech leader. The role emphasizes DevOps-first culture, automated release pipelines, and capacity planning across engineering teams.

You will drive tooling and security-centric CI/CD strategies, support production readiness, and partner with product teams to ensure high availability and scale while enabling a hybrid work schedule with on-site collaboration in the