Devops Engineer Jobs in Chicago, USA

<p> </p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Inspire11 is a full-service consulting firm that helps clients reach their full potential by getting closer to their customers, their employees, and their communities. Utilizing innovative and strategic thought with technology to bring change and disruption to life. </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Our team partners with technology leaders to help them strategize and execute their digital, analytics and technology initiatives. We focus on positively disrupting the marketplace and building customer loyalty in an ever-fickle consumer market. We are constantly keeping our eyes open for revenue generating opportunities in organizations using application development and data analytics. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">In order to meet the demands of our high growth business, we are looking for talented </span><span data-contrast="none">DevOps Engineer</span><span data-contrast="none"> to provide insights and solutions to our clients. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><strong>What you do at Inspire11 </strong></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">You will work closely with our tech & consulting teams to understand their project needs, and help define & implement solutions that enable us to succeed in our objectives </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">You will work with AWS technologies like EC2, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">You will automate repetitive tasks using tools like Puppet, Chef, Docker, Jenkins and/or Ansible</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">You will implement and optimize the CI/CD pipeline while accounting for re-usability, performance, and security </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">You will build and maintain tools for

<p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About Us</strong>:</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36">Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">DV</span></span></span> Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="641" data-local-id="3db7b8c101de"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Overview: </strong></p> <p>We're looking for a senior level DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact team that builds and operates the infrastructure powering DV's trading systems. You'll work on Kubernetes at scale, a firm-wide observability platform, CI/CD infrastructure, and workflow orchestration.</p> <p>This team built the entire platform from scratch in 2025 and now owns it end-to-end. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment: the team is growing, the platform is scaling to meet increasing demand across the firm, and there's no shortage of hard problems to solve. You'll have real ownership from day one — not tickets in a queue.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="706" data-local-id="6d17a07f558d"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Job Responsibilities:</strong></p> <div> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="9928bc4a86e5" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1431" data-local-id="4f12b4ab4410"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Kubernetes platform operations and evolution:</strong> Cluster lifecycle management via Cluster API, fleet-wide upgrades, bare metal provisioning, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _

What You’ll Do: As a DevOps Engineer, you will be an integral member of our team, collaborating closely with software developers, traders, and quantitative researchers to ensure the health and stability of the trading systems and infrastructure that power our trading activities. In this role, you will apply your systems expertise to tackle challenging problems in automation, programming, and technology. Your responsibilities will include designing, building, and managing automation for workflows and data pipelines, and creating tools to improve system reliability. You will assist developers in troubleshooting complex issues related to programming and networking, deploy and configure applications using configuration management tools, and help manage our core infrastructure, from containerized environments to deploying and maintaining technology assets in our on-prem and co-located data centers.

<p><strong>DRW</strong> is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.</p> <p>Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.</p> <p>We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. <strong>DRW</strong> is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.</p> <p>We are seeking a <strong>DevOps Engineer</strong> to join our Security Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, and operate the infrastructure and tooling that enables secure, scalable, and reliable systems across the firm. You will work closely with platform, security, and development teams to embed security into our infrastructure without slowing down innovation. </p> <p>This role is hands-on and ideal for someone who enjoys building systems, automating workflows, and improving the developer and operator experience while maintaining a strong security posture. </p> <p><strong> What you’ll be doing:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines or implementing GitOps workflows</li> <li>Build and implement tooling to support initiatives like data pipelines</li> <li>Help design and work with various security engineers to provide solutions to help with development pipelines, including DAST, SAST, etc.</li> <li>Support security tools like HashiCorp Vault</li> <li>Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for security and infrastructure systems</li> <li>Automate operational and security processes to reduce manual effort and risk</li> <li>Support containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker) with a focus on secure configuration and runtime protections</li> <li>Assist in incident response and remediation efforts related to infrastructure and deployment systems</li> <li>Continuously evaluate and improve system reliability, scalability, and security posture</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we’re looking for:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Strong programming/scripting skills</li> <li&gt