Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Hybrid - 3 days in the office per week Full-time | Full Benefits & Bonus   Visa: | | H1B Transfer Supported     Key Responsibilities: Lead DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives across enterprise platforms. Design and implement CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes environments. Manage and support multi-region Kubernetes and Kafka platforms. Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, and operational excellence practices. Build observability solutions using metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. Drive automation initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code. Lead incident response, post-mortems, runbook creation, and on-call processes. Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions. Support capacity planning, failover strategies, and performance optimization. Required Skills: AWS (EC2), Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar monitoring tools Chaos engineering principles and tooling (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, LitmusChaos) PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or other incident management platforms Microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures Cloud networking and security SQL, NoSQL, and in-memory data stores Development experience with Java, Python, Scala, or Golang Multi-region/high-availability architecture and disaster recovery Strong understanding of SRE principles, automation, and cloud-native technologies Qualifications: 8+ years of experience building large-scale, data-centric solutions 8+ years of recent experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering environments Experience working in fast-paced, highly available enterprise environments Strong communication and collaboration skills