Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago · 3 hours ago
Lead DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$108K/yr - $181K/yr
7+ years expFederal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is committed to providing competitively priced funding and support for community investment activities. The Lead DevOps Engineer will drive the implementation and scaling of DevSecOps practices, ensuring seamless transition of code and products from development to production while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Banking
Responsibilities
Enhancing Automation and Efficiency: The Lead DevOps Engineer will significantly improve the bank's software development lifecycle by implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and ensuring seamless integration and deployment, thereby enhancing overall efficiency, and reducing time-to-market for new features and services
Strengthening Security and Compliance: By implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with performance, security, availability, and recoverability standards, the Lead DevOps Engineer will play a crucial role in safeguarding the bank's IT infrastructure and maintaining the integrity of its operations
Fostering Innovation and Collaboration: The Lead DevOps Engineer will drive the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with various teams to design and deploy innovative solutions, ultimately contributing to the bank's technological advancement and competitive edge
Set up CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of resources to Cloud environments, all at medium to high level of complexity
This role is very strategic in nature with a focus on scaling DevOps practices within an enterprise
Supervise design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration
Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment
Implement security best practices and ensure compliance
Proactively identifies system and process risks and recommend/implement process improvements
Develop, implement, and support test automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment
Identify and develop metrics and dashboards to monitor adoption and maturity of DevSecOps practice for the Bank
Expertise in conterization (Docker and Podman) and orchestration via AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS)
Develop, manage and mature the Bank’s software development life-cycle (SDLC) ensuring alignment with Agile, DevSecOps, and platform standards
Embed “shift-left” security practices leveraging tools like Checkmarx, SonarQube, PrismaCloud
Identify and implement opportunities for automation, standardization, and process enhancements
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to software deliver teams and junior engineers to promote cross-functional knowledge sharing
Contribute to architecture discussions around technology controls and their implementation in a DevSecOps/Cloud environment
Work collaboratively with architecture, security and delivery teams to estimate, design, code, deploy and support working software / technology components
Foster the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams
Liaison with Delivery teams to support necessary configurations/setup in Azure DevOps (ADO) in support of Agile
Participate in various technology Center of Excellence (CoE) and evenagelise DevSecOps methodologies
Work with development and support teams to design improved deployment, provisioning and integration workflows, ensure environments stability and identify areas and plans for improvement
Contribute to new technology, vendor package and tool road mapping, evaluation and introduction
Ensure compliance with Performance, Security, Availability, Recoverability standards and policies and provide Monitoring recommendations
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience. Computer Science or related field preferred
7+ years of demonstrable senior DevOps and software engineering experience
7+ years working in SCRUM/Agile software development environment
Experience deploying and administering Continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus or Bamboo
Expertise with Infrastructure cloud tools such as Terraform, Docker, Podman, Helm etc
Experience administering and integrating SAST tools (Checkmarx) and code quality tools (SonarQube)
Expertise with integrating automated testing solutions for unit, system, integration, and performance testing within CI/CD
Strong cloud engineering experience primarily with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Expertise in working with Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chocolaty for infrastructure automation and configuration
Expertise with containerization via Docker and Podman with container orchestration leveraging Amazon EKS
Expertise with GitHub Co-pilot configuration and administration
Expertise with programming languages such as Python, Powershell, and Bash is a must
Expertise with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Datadog and Solarwinds
Expertise with project management and workflow tools and concepts such, Agile, Scrum/Kanban, etc
Proficiency in cross-platform scripting language and build tools (Python, Artifactory, MS Build, NuGet)
Proficiency in OOP software development using C# or similar languages
Ability to define scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines
Deep understanding of containerization strategies using Docker and Podman
Experience with pair programming using GitHub Copilot
Strong communication/presentation skills and ability to build and explain standards, processes, and cloud architecture with team and management
Benefits
Retirement program (401k and Pension)
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Lifestyle Spending Account
Competitive PTO plan
11 paid holidays per year
Company
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
Our Mission: To partner with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment in the Bank, and support for their community investment activities.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Eric Geiger
Chief Technology Officer
Mike Zeifert, CFA
SVP, Chief Credit Officer
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