Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote/Chicago: CI/CD & AWS

Cars Commerce; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set‑U

Generous PTO

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Cars Commerce in Chicago is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to revamp CI/CD pipelines and modernize backend services on AWS. You will lead projects, raise operational standards, and build the systems our dealers, manufacturers, and consumers rely on.

This role sits with the Websites DevOps team and partners with Cloud Engineering to implement IaC, monitoring, and security best practices, while maintaining collaboration across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, CI/CD, scripting, automation in cloud-native environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles: CI/CD, IaC, Agile.
• Programming in Node.js, Elixir, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, or SQL is a plus.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and DevOps tooling (Git, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and AWS infrastructure services (EKS, OpenSearch, S3, RDS).
• Experience with container orchestration and modern monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automate build, test, and deployment.
• Provide infrastructure as code and manage AWS resources.
• Build visibility with monitoring dashboards and alerting to catch issues early.
• Integrate security best practices into development and deployment as default.
• Collaborate with developers, security engineers, and IT to keep DevOps practices shared.

Skills

CI/CD

IaC

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

OpenSearch

S3

RDS

API Gateway

Job description

Cars Commerce in Chicago is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to revamp CI/CD pipelines and modernize backend services on AWS. You will lead projects, raise operational standards, and build the systems our dealers, manufacturers, and consumers rely on.

This role sits with the Websites DevOps team and partners with Cloud Engineering to implement IaC, monitoring, and security best practices, while maintaining collaboration across teams in a fast-paced environment.