Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago · 7 hours ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$90K/yr - $151K/yr
5+ years expFederal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is a government-sponsored bank focused on providing competitively priced funding to financial institutions in Illinois and Wisconsin. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will partner with IT Delivery Teams to ensure seamless code deployment and improve DevSecOps platforms and pipelines through automation and security controls.
Banking
Responsibilities
The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, enhance, and operate Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise pipelines with embedded quality and security gates (SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning), reducing deployment risk while improving release speed and reliability across Agile delivery teams
The Senior DevOps Engineer will build and operate resilient Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) environments, improving cluster health, scaling, and upgrade processes while enforcing image governance, runtime security, and operational best practices
The Senior DevOps Engineer will develop reusable Terraform modules integrated into CI/CD pipelines with automated validation, drift detection, and policy enforcement to ensure secure, repeatable, and compliant cloud environments across AWS and Azure
The Senior DevOps Engineer will implement actionable monitoring, logging, and dashboards, support incident response and root-cause analysis, and contribute to documentation and enablement efforts that raise DevSecOps maturity and adoption across development and QA teams
Build, maintain, and enhance Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise pipelines for continuous integration and delivery
Set up CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of resources to Cloud environments, all at medium to high level of complexity
This is a hands-on role that develops and supports build and release automation pipelines. You will be part of the team that will deploy a highly available full software stack in public/ private clouds
Experise in enabling GitHub Co-pilot is various stages of SDLC
Integrate testing, code quality, and security scanning into automated workflows
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and optimize performance and reliability
Liaison with IT Delivery teams to support necessary configurations/setup in Azure DevOps (ADO)/ GitHub Enterprise for Agile ceremonies
Work with development and support teams to design improved deployment, provisioning and integration workflows, ensure environments stability and identify areas and plans for improvement
Remediate gaps and support the automation requirements of continuous integration and continuous deployment
Identify and develop metrics and dashboards to monitor adoption and maturity of DevOps
Build and manage Docker images and deploy workloads to AWS EKS
Implement container security scanning, image governance, and runtime monitoring
Support scaling, upgrades, and operational health of Kubernetes clusters
Develop and maintain Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning
Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines with automated validation and compliance checks
Assist with drift detection, remediation, and environment consistency
Implement and maintain SAST, SCA, DAST, and container security scans
Support vulnerability tracking and remediation workflows
Ensure secrets and sensitive data are managed securely using enterprise tools
Configure metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Continuously improve reliability and operability of platforms
Ensure compliance with Performance, Security, Availability, Recoverability standards and policies and provide Monitoring recommendations for tasks of low to medium level of complexity
Contribute to standards, procedures, and technical documentation
Support training and knowledge sharing with development and QA teams
Foster the adoption of DevSecOps culture and capabilities across Agile product delivery teams
Work in an Agile/Scrum environment; planning, estimating, and completing tasks
Qualification
Required
5+ years of demonstrable software engineering and DevOps experience
5+ years working in SCRM/Agile software development environment
Experience deploying and administering Continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise
Experience with Infrastructure cloud tools such as Terraform, Docker
Experience with automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration and system testing
Strong cloud engineering experience primarily with Azure and AWS
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes on platforms such as AWS ECS and AWS EKS
Strong knowledge of secure SDLC and DevSecOps patterns for code quality, dependency hygiene, and vulnerability management
Proficient in Kubernetes/EKS operations, Helm, scaling, and monitoring; comfortable troubleshooting containerized workflow
Solid grasp of IaC best practices (modules, testing, secrets, drift) and Git‑based workflows
Ability to analyze pipeline/observability metrics, interpret trends, and propose optimizations
Effective communicator and collaborator across Dev, Sec, and Ops teams; contributes to training and knowledge sharing
Strong communication/presentation skills and ability to explain protocol, processes, and cloud architecture with team and management
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, Git
Code Quality & Security: SonarQube, Checkmarx SAST/SCA, security gates
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), image scanning and deployment
IaC: Terraform, reusable modules, pipeline integration
Observability: Monitoring, logging, alerting using enterprise tools
Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python
Agile & SDLC: Story execution, documentation, collaboration
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience. Computer Science or related field preferred
Experience with programming languages such as Python, Golang, and C++ is a plus
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Solarwinds and Splunk
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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