Jobs · Engineering · Illinois

Tech Ops Engineer

Selby Jennings · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time

About the role

We are seeking a TechOps Engineer to support and enhance the engineering platforms and development tooling used across a global technology-driven organization. This role will focus on maintaining critical software development platforms, supporting internal users, troubleshooting complex technical issues, improving platform reliability, and driving automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and support developer tooling platforms used across the software development lifecycle.
  • Investigate and resolve platform incidents, service requests, and user issues.
  • Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and capacity to ensure reliable service delivery.
  • Troubleshoot and support CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and deployment workflows.
  • Perform platform upgrades, maintenance activities, configuration changes, and performance tuning.
  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to resolve complex technical challenges.
  • Develop and maintain operational documentation, support procedures, and runbooks.
  • Identify recurring issues and implement long-term improvements through automation and process optimization.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting business-critical development platforms.
  • Contribute to modernization and migration initiatives across the tooling ecosystem.

Required Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in TechOps, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Systems Administration, or Infrastructure Operations.
  • Strong experience administering software development and collaboration platforms.
  • Experience supporting artifact repositories and software package management solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
  • Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, integrations, and infrastructure.
  • Experience diagnosing performance issues and supporting high-availability production environments.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and software delivery pipelines.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Skills

  • AWS (EC2, RDS, Kubernetes/EKS)
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD platforms
  • Artifact repositories
  • Developer collaboration and workflow tools
  • Linux administration

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