Sr DevOps Engineer

Sr DevOps Engineer

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Sr DevOps Engineer in Chicago, IL

Position Title: Sr DevOps Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Anticipated Start Date: 22nd Sep 2025 - 29th Sep 2025

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6 months contract

Job Type: [FULL TIME (>%3D40 HRS WEEKLY), [CONTRACT], [Onsite]

Pay Range: $45/hr - $50/hr

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Role/ Responsibilities:

• Assist in design and development of the account application
• Influencing peers, juniors, and seniors both within the organization and across the account.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to understand and solve problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs

Desired Technical Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years' experience in IT
• 2+ years as SrDevOps, with AWS hands-on experience
• 5+ years CI/CD experience
• Experience doing production support and monitoring.
• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS Services like ECS - Fargate (Mandatory), OpenSearch.
• Knowledge of CloudFormation scripts for automation purpose.
• Experience in creating of Elastic Cache - Redis cluster and monitoring the metrics.
• Experience in working on GitHub and GitHub actions.
• Experience in DR setup ( Active / Active or Active / Passive )
• Experience in Monitoring the Kibana / DataDog / Dynatrace and checking the latency issues if any.
• Experience in Solace/Active MQ
• Experience in Route 53

Preferred additional Skills

• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS Services like EKS
• Experience in creating of DynamoDB tables, DocumentDB, and AuroraDB.
• Neptune
• Harness
• Quantum Metrics

Soft Skills

• The candidate should have excellent communication skills. Verbal communication should be clear, as well as written skills using US English.
• The candidate should be capable of quickly grasping high-level concepts and can communicate them to others.
• The candidate can work on a fast-moving development team, be candid about the status of their work with the development team.
• The candidate cares about quality.

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:
Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.
BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 243978 when responding to this ad.

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