Senior DevOps Engineer

At the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, employees come first - that’s why we offer a highly competitive compensation and bonus package, and access to a comprehensive benefits program designed to meet the needs of our employees. 

• Collaborative, in-office operating model

• Retirement program (401k and Pension) 

• Medical, dental and vision insurance 

• Lifestyle Spending Account 

• Competitive PTO plan 

• 11 paid holidays per year

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Who we are

Our mission at FHLBank Chicago: To partner with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment, and support for their community investment activities.

Simply said, we're a bank for banks and other financial institutions, focused on being a strategic partner for our members and working together to reinvest in our communities, from urban centers to rural areas. Created by Congress in 1932, FHLBank Chicago is one of 11 Federal Home Loan Banks, government sponsored in support of mortgage lending and community investment.

What it’s like to work here

At FHLBank Chicago, we bring people together. We are committed to a high performing, engaged workforce, and to supporting the communities we serve across Illinois and Wisconsin. Our Buddy Program pairs new hires with tenured employees to guide their onboarding. Our professional development and training opportunities through upskilling, mentorship programs, and tuition reimbursement allow employees to grow their career with us. Our collaborative, in-office operating model brings teams together to foster innovation, connection, and shared success. To support balance and flexibility, employees are provided an allocation of remote days to use as needed throughout the year.

What You’ll do

The Senior DevOps Engineer will partner with IT Delivery Teams to ensure code, services and products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. Work requires scripting and coding with an eye on automation and continuous integration so that deployments can be broken down and distributed across multiple development and test teams for the implementation of web-based application development projects. 

The Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands‑on technical contributor responsible for building, operating, and improving DevSecOps platforms and pipelines. This role focuses on implementing automation, enforcing security and quality controls, and ensuring reliable day‑to‑day operation of CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and container platforms. Senior DevOps Engineers partner closely with development and security teams to deliver solutions that are scalable, secure, and production‑ready.

This is a hands-on role that requires analytical thinking, technical aptitude and an ability to work closely with members of the development, infrastructure security, and solution architecture teams (i.e., engineers and testers). Resources to do the job require reliance on technical knowledge of Azure DevOps implementation and administration, .NET, structured programming concepts, containerization, micro services, architecture and process enhancement to support the bank’s development and testing efforts. 

How you’ll make an impact:

• Accelerate secure delivery through robust CI/CD automation and AI-enabled SDLC:

  • 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. Enable use of AI with GitHub -Copilot to embed with SDLC

• Strengthen cloud and container platform stability at scale:

  • 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.

• Drive consistency and compliance using Infrastructure as Code:

  • 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.