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Navtech, Inc.

Devops Lead

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.50 - $74.50/hr

Job Title: Devops Lead Location: Chicago, IL (Day 1 Onsite) Duration: Long Term Contract Rate Must be on W2. * DevOps Engineer with any cloud experience preferably AWS. * Should have expertise in ...

TriOptus LLC

Sr Devops Engineer

Deerfield, IL · On-site

$53.75 - $73.50/hr

PROJECT FOCUS: DevOps Lead TOP Required Skills: DevOps, Linux/Windows OS, Git, Azure Cloud, IaC, Bicep, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD Required Skills : DevOps,Azure,Windows,Linux Basic ...

Navtech, Inc.

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.50 - $74.50/hr

Job Title: Devops Lead Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite) Duration: Long Term Contract Rate Must be on W2. * DevOps Engineer with any cloud experience preferably AWS. * Should have expertise in scripting.

Artius Solutions

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

Lead DevOps Engineer Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Employment Type: Full-Time Overview A financial services organization based in Chicago, is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to help build and scale a ...

Artius Solutions

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

Lead DevOps Engineer Location: Chicago, IL Employment Type: Full-time Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to drive enterprise DevSecOps initiatives, lead CI/CD ...

Keyphase Inc

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$80 - $90/hr

We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for deploying software stacks in public and private cloud environments. This hands-on role ...

Keyphase Inc

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$80 - $90/hr

We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for deploying software stacks in public and private cloud environments. This hands-on role ...

Wolters Kluwer N.V.

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$116.40 - $204.10/hr

## Lead DevOps EngineerApplyremote type: Remotelocations: USA-VA-Remote: USA - Chicago, IL, South LaSalle St: USA - Coppell, TX: USA - Minneapolis, MN: USA-TX-Remotetime type: Full timeposted on: Posted ...

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Wolters Kluwer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for our applications, as well as maintaining and improving the ...

Wolters Kluwer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for our applications, as well as maintaining and improving the ...

Wolters Kluwer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for our applications, as well as maintaining and improving the ...

Wolters Kluwer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.25 - $74.50/hr

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for our applications, as well as maintaining and improving the ...

Adidev Technologies Inc

DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.50 - $74.50/hr

... Lead incident response and perform root cause analysis. Required Skills & Experience: - 3-6 years of DevOps or SRE experience. - Strong hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP. - Expertise in CI/CD tools ...

Adidev Technologies Inc

DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$54.50 - $74.50/hr

Job Advertisement -DevOps Engineer Company Overview: We are a fastgrowing technology company focused on delivering reliable, scalable, and secure cloudnative applications to enterprise clients. Our ...

Fidelity Life

(Remote) DevOps Team Lead

Des Plaines, IL · On-site +1

$51.50 - $70.50/hr

Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure ... Evaluate, implement, and promote AI-enabled engineering and operational automation that improves ...

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As of Aug 8, 2026, the average yearly pay for devops lead in Chicago, IL is $161,188.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $119,600.00 and $211,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A DevOps Lead often encounters challenges such as integrating complex systems, ensuring seamless deployment pipelines, and maintaining high system availability and security across multiple environments. Balancing rapid software releases with robust quality assurance processes can also require careful prioritization and stakeholder communication. Additionally, fostering a collaborative culture between development and operations teams is crucial for minimizing bottlenecks. Overcoming these challenges helps ensure efficient workflows and reliable, high-performing applications for end users.

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Devops Lead

Navtech, Inc.

Chicago, IL • On-site

$54.50 - $74.50/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 19 days ago

Job description

Hello Professional,
Hope You are Doing Great...!!!
My name is James William from Navtech, Inc. I have an open opportunity that you may be a good fit for. If this lies in your interest then, please contact me ASAP along with your most updated resume, the best time, and contact number to reach you, and the expected pay rate on W2.
Job Title: Devops Lead
Location: Chicago, IL (Day 1 Onsite)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Rate Must be on W2.
Job Description:
  • DevOps Engineer with any cloud experience preferably AWS.
  • Should have expertise in scripting.
  • Require experience in designing end to end CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy microservices based application on cloud environments .
  • Require keen eye on automation gaps and able to produce automation optimization approaches for changing CI/CD requirements .
  • Understand Infrastructure as a code and require implementing best practices to promote applications to Prod .
  • Require experience in configuration management and understand externalization approaches to parameterize dynamic values.
  • Require adapting to new tools and tech-stack as and when needed. Understand security aspects of cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines .
  • Understand deployment best practices and implementation level knowledge on monitoring tools is required.
  • Strong work ethic with ownership and accountability.
  • Ability to work with minimum guidance.

Technical skills :
Must have :
  • Good hands-on experience with AWS Services like (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, IAM Roles etc.)
  • Infrastructure As Code tools like Terraform Cloud Formation Templates and Code Pipeline. Ability to develop IAC scripts from scratch
  • Good Scripting skills with one of the scripting languages pythons and Powershell/bash
  • Understand micro-services based architecture and working experience with docker and Kubernetes preferably on cloud EKS/AKS/GKE.
  • Working experience on Kubernetes add-ons and tools like Dashboards, Helm, ISTIO, App Mesh and Prometheus. Ability to debug issues in Live environment
  • Understand source code management and configuration management and have experience in any one of SCM tools Github/tfs/bitbucket & CM tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet
  • Understand Continuous Integration as process and have working experience with TeamCity/Jenkins/CircleCI/Harness
  • Understand Continuous Deployment and delivery and work able to work release orchestration . Have working experience in any deployment tools like Helm/ArgoCD/XLDeploy/OctopusDeploy/IBM UrbanCOdeDeploy/Spinnaker/Harness
  • Working experience with Development Methodology like Agile (JIRA) including Kanban and Scrum

Experience with any Telemetry stack like EFK/ ELK /Splunk/ Datadog/Dynatrace
Thanks for your valuable time!!!
Best Regards,
James William | PH: 224-296-3552 | james@navtechusa.com
Technical Recruiter |NAVTECH INC
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About Navtech

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Industry

Civil engineering construction

Company size

11 - 50 Employees

Headquarters location

New Bloomfield, PA, US

Year founded

1996

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