Sr. DevOps Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, Terraform, Cloud Networking)

Us Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 124,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid Vacation

Holiday Benefit

Adoption Assistance

Sick Leave

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments.

You will own infrastructure solutions from architecture through operations, driving reliability, security, and scalability in critical business platforms. This senior role requires deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Location: Chicago; 3+ days on-site. Competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5–6 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure across accounts and regions.
• Architect enterprise networking (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53).
• Develop disaster recovery strategies for platform resilience.
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins pipelines for provisioning and deployment.
• Support cloud modernization including containers, databases, serverless, messaging, observability, security controls.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and connectivity issues; perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with security, development, and platform teams to deliver secure, compliant solutions.
• Improve IaC automation, monitoring, and documentation for reliability.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Networking

Disaster Recovery

Security & Compliance

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Direct Connect

VPC

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure platforms across AWS and hybrid environments. This hands‑on engineering role requires deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Cloud WAN, enterprise networking, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. The ideal candidate will own infrastructure solutions from architecture through operations, driving reliability, scalability, security, and automation across critical business platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform across multiple accounts, regions, and environments.
• Architect and support enterprise networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53 DNS, routing, and load balancing.
• Develop, implement, and validate multi-region disaster recovery strategies to ensure platform resilience and business continuity.
• Build, optimize, and maintain GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins pipelines for automated infrastructure provisioning, testing, deployment, and governance.
• Support cloud modernization and migration initiatives involving containers, databases, serverless technologies, messaging platforms, observability tools, and security controls.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, and network connectivity issues, driving root‑cause analysis and long‑term remediation.
• Partner with network, security, application development, and platform engineering teams to deliver secure, compliant, and highly available solutions.
• Continuously improve infrastructure automation, operational processes, monitoring, documentation, and platform reliability through Infrastructure-as‑Code best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience

Skills/Experience

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, SQS, Aurora, Secrets Manager, KMS, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automated provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and infrastructure deployment pipelines within DevOps environments.
• Deep understanding of AWS networking and hybrid connectivity, including VPC, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, and load‑balancing architectures.
• Experience supporting multi‑account AWS environments, cross‑account access models, governance frameworks, and cloud security best practices.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting high‑availability and disaster recovery solutions across multiple regions and environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure and connectivity challenges.
• Experience working in financial services, payments, PCI‑regulated, or other highly regulated environments, with a focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer‑funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet‑based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $124,355.00 - $146,300.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.