DevOps Team Lead

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🕒 4 days ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $138k - $178k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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eFinancial

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2001

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

Healthcare • Consulting • Insurance

<eFinancial> is an online life insurance quote comparison and brokerage platform that helps consumers compare and purchase term, permanent, and final expense life insurance from top-rated carriers. The site offers quick online quotes, a 10-question term calculator, educational resources, and access to licensed agents who can provide personalized guidance and same-day coverage in many cases. eFinancial aggregates carrier options, highlights plan differences (coverage lengths, premiums, medical exam requirements, cash value), and emphasizes customer support and easy application processes.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure and complex technical initiatives • Coach engineers through successful delivery and provide people leadership, including performance management, goal setting, feedback, career development, and hiring participation • Build and maintain Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD pipelines, Terraform infrastructure as code, and internal platform tooling • Execute complex production deployments and improve deployment safety through automation, verification, and rollback • Establish the team's technical implementation strategy and continuous improvement roadmap • Drive enterprise ecosystem improvements through hands-on technical leadership • Implement and improve the team's production ownership model • Deliver team commitments while supporting organizational operational objectives • Communicate with leadership and across teams; author and present technical documentation and direction • Enforce enterprise standards, security best practices, compliance, environment management, and change and incident/PIR processes • Design, build, and improve shared engineering platforms, automation, IaC, CI/CD, developer tooling, and self-service capabilities • Evaluate and promote AI-enabled engineering and operational automation to improve productivity, deployment quality, incident response, and platform operations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or related field, or commensurate real-world DevOps experience • 7+ years in a DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering role • Demonstrated experience leading engineers, owning technical delivery, or managing complex cross-functional technical initiatives • Proven experience with AWS services and cloud migration projects • Extensive experience with CI/CD tools and modern pipeline automation; Bitbucket Pipelines experience preferred • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code • Strong knowledge of Atlassian products, including JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket • Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes • Experience leading incident response, owning production reliability, mentoring engineers, and setting team technical standards • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills • Strong communication and collaboration abilities; ability to write clear documentation and present technical direction • Sound organizational judgment with cross-team impact awareness • Ability to lead unfamiliar or ambiguous technical initiatives with minimal supervision • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner required • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional preferred • AWS Certified Security Specialty optional • AWS CloudOps Administrator Associate

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance • Dental Insurance • Employer-Paid Vision • Employer-Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance • Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance • 401(k) Plan with company match • PTO and sick time accru each pay period • Annual Bonus Program • Health Savings Accounts • Flexible Spending Accounts for Health, Dependent Care, and Transit • Vision Care • Life and AD&D coverages