Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

M1 Finance; Illinois; On-site; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay and Stock Options

Comprehensive health, dental, vision,

Retirement benefit with employer match

Unlimited PTO

Transparent and open communication

Job summary

M1 Finance is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to design and run our AWS foundation and Kubernetes platforms. You’ll own account structure, VPC, DNS, routing, IAM, and Terraform conventions, and you’ll harden reliability in hybrid and on-prem environments.

You’ll advance observability, CI/CD and GitOps, secrets management, and network security while mentoring others. If you bring deep production experience and a pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset, we want to talk.

Qualifications

• Several years (typically 5+) building and running production infrastructure or platforms.
• Hands-on depth in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve our AWS foundation — account structure, network architecture (VPC, DNS, routing), and IAM — and shape the Terraform conventions the infra team builds on.
• Harden our network's reliability, including the hybrid and on-prem connectivity behind systems that can’t go down.
• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and the in-cluster platform services that run on them — ingress, service mesh, autoscaling, and policy.
• Build the observability layer — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting — so teams can see how their systems behave and catch issues before customers do.
• Expand our self-service platform and CI/CD + GitOps automation, so routine changes are safe and repeatable instead of manual and risky.
• Keep security, secrets management, and least-privilege access sane as the platform grows.
• Share in on-call, and bring an SRE mindset to keeping reliability, cost, and toil all trending in the right direction.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Kubernetes in production (EKS)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

CI/CD / GitOps (CircleCI / Flux)

Observability (metrics/logs/traces/ops

Secrets management & least privilege

Networking & Linux fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

Flux

AWS

Job description

What you\'ll do

• Help design and evolve our AWS foundation — account structure, network architecture (VPC, DNS, routing), and IAM — and shape the Terraform conventions the infra team builds on.
• Harden our network\'s reliability, including the hybrid and on-prem connectivity behind systems that can\'t go down.
• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and the in-cluster platform services that run on them — ingress, service mesh, autoscaling, and policy.
• Build the observability layer — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting — so teams can see how their systems behave and catch issues before customers do.
• Expand our self-service platform and CI/CD + GitOps automation, so routine changes are safe and repeatable instead of manual and risky.
• Keep security, secrets management, and least-privilege access sane as the platform grows.
• Share in on-call, and bring an SRE mindset to keeping reliability, cost, and toil all trending in the right direction.

Senior-level experience is the one thing we really need.

You\'ve spent several years (typically 5+) building and running production infrastructure or platforms, and you\'ve earned real judgment from owning systems when they broke — not just when they behaved. We care more about how deep that experience runs than where you got it.

You\'ve got hands-on depth in several of these, and pick up the rest fast:

• Cloud infrastructure (we run on AWS)
• Kubernetes in production (we use EKS)
• Infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)
• CI/CD and GitOps-style automated delivery (we use CircleCI and Flux)
• Observability — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• Secrets management and secure, least-privilege access
• Networking and Linux fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, routing and subnetting, firewalls and security groups, load balancing, and TLS

Nice to have — none required, but any is a welcome bonus:

• General database administration and systems administration experience
• Experience with Kafka or another event-streaming platform
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., ISO 27001 / SOC 2 certified) or working directly with auditors
• Windows experience — administration, PowerShell, and SQL Server
• Experience with agentic AI tooling and securing agentic workflows

If you\'re a strong senior engineer excited by this work but coming from an adjacent stack or a less conventional path, we still want to hear from you.

Salary Band: $165,000 - $195,000

Our Values

Our team embodies our core principles and if these principles speak to you – we\’d love to talk with you.

• Mission drivenWe know that financial well-being has a dramatic impact on an individual\’s quality of life. We are passionate about helping people in this domain.
• Extreme ownershipWe are responsible for the results to our clients, teammates, and shareholders. We own everything in our domain that affects these results.
• BoldnessThinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking big inspire results. We would rather fail at the meaningful than succeed at the trivial.
• Ruthless prioritizationWe want to do more than we possibly can. We are disciplined with the use of our precious people, time and money. That means saying no to a lot of good ideas so we can focus on the most important thing.
• Integrity We earn and maintain trust by always prioritizing our clients\’ interests; it must never be compromised.

Our Perks

• Competitive Pay and Stock Options
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Retirement benefit with employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Transparent and open communication with leadership

M1 is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity across the company. M1 does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.