Job Specifications
Job Title: Associate Principal, DevOps/Automation Hybrid-Engineer
Location & Type: Chicago, IL -Onsite 3 Days per Week, Direct Hire (Must be open to providing after-hours support and on-call rotation 5 PM-7 AM, 3 months per year).
Compensation: $121,500.00 - $194,800.00 (8-15%)
Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k) with match, professional development, collaborative culture, work-life balance
Final base compensation will be determined by the client based on experience, skills, and education, while maintaining internal equity within the team. (Target -$160,000 depending on experience level + bonus potential)
Summary
The Associate Principal, DevOps / Automation Engineer will join our client's team, a leader in the financial market and clearing organization industry, Development DevOps team supporting automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations across multiple environments.
This role focuses on refining and automating SDLC processes, improving deployment pipelines, and maintaining AWS- and Kubernetes-based development environments. The engineer will also handle troubleshooting, architectural optimization, and cloud operations, ensuring reliability and scalability across the technology landscape. This position is hybrid in Chicago, collaborating closely with the DevOps leads to design and implement solutions that enhance the efficiency, performance, and the automation maturity of the clearing applications. Click Now to Apply
Ideal Candidate
Proactive self-starter who can research, learn, and deliver independently.
Collaborative team player, focused on helping the entire team succeed.
Comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment with frequent changes.
Excellent communication skills, able to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
What You Will Be Accountable For
Partner with development and infrastructure teams to automate and optimize build, deployment, and monitoring processes across OCC's Clearing applications.
Identify architectural gaps and recommend design improvements for AWS-based environments and CI/CD frameworks.
Troubleshoot and maintain cloud operations, ensuring environment reliability and operational excellence.
Support and evolve development environments leveraging Kubernetes and AWS, ensuring seamless integration between components.
Develop and maintain Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and Harness pipelines to automate environment provisioning and application deployment.
Contribute to continuous improvement of DevOps processes and documentation to drive self-service capabilities.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to implement scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure solutions.
Mentor team members on DevOps tools, automation best practices, and cloud infrastructure patterns.
Stay current with emerging technologies and suggest innovations to advance OCC's DevOps strategy.
What Qualifications You Need
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
5+ years of recent DevOps experience, participating in or supporting DevOps teams.
3+ years building large-scale, data-centric, or cloud-native solutions AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Broad DevOps orientation demonstrated automation experience, both infrastructure and software delivery pipelines, and CI/CD methodologies.
Strong experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, and Kubernetes (required).
Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, VPCs, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, KMS, etc.).
Solid understanding of Linux administration and shell scripting.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, or AppDynamics.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs, JSON RPC, and Git workflows.
Experience in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy, or Java.
Experience with Kafka or distributed message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kinesis).
Familiarity with Harness, Ansible, or Helm.
Preferred Certifications
AWS Cloud Certification
CKA/CKAD or equivalent Kubernetes certification.
About Our Client
Our client is one of the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organizations and is a foundation for secure markets. This client operates under the jurisdiction of both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and now provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions.
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