DevOps Engineer

A fast growing entertainment company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Media Team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys tackling difficult problems, shaping architectural decisions, and developing resilient, maintainable solutions at scale. This is a full\-time hybrid role with offices located in downtown Chicago. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing and scaling infrastructure across cloud and on\-premises platforms. Working closely with engineering and product teams, you'll drive automation initiatives, enhance operational excellence, and help scale a cloud\-first, AI\-powered DevOps platform. **Required Skills \& Experience** * Proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering, with 2–5 years supporting and scaling cloud infrastructure environments * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines * Strong background in managing AWS cloud infrastructure at scale across multiple environments * On\-call availability, including weekends and holidays as needed **Desired Skills \& Experience** * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field **What You Will Be Doing** **Tech Breakdown** * IaC: Terraform, Ansible * Containerization/clusters: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, ArgoCD * Scripting/programming: Bash, Python, Go * Observability/monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty * OS: Linux * AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ALB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudWatch **Daily Responsibilities** * Partner with cross\-functional teams to architect and deploy secure, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure * Build, automate, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible * Enhance system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through continuous platform and architecture improvements * Advance CI/CD capabilities, including AI\-enabled automation, to support fast, reliable, and secure software delivery * Strengthen operational visibility through monitoring, logging, tracing, and proactive incident detection * Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and architectural design reviews * Drive consistency across teams by standardizing DevOps tools, processes, and platform best practices Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full\-time basis now and in the future. **Posted By:** Riley Allen