Quadrant IQ Solutions LLC
DevOps Engineer
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This role is for a DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of experience, focusing on AWS/GCP, located in Chicago, IL (Hybrid). Requires prior experience with Discover Financial Services, expertise in CI/CD, containerization, IaC, and security compliance. Pay rate: "unknown"; contract length: "unknown".
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
November 22, 2025
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Chicago, IL
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Artifactory #Jenkins #Prometheus #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #CHEF #Monitoring #Datadog #Firewalls #Linux #Splunk #Puppet #Vault #Compliance #SNS (Simple Notification Service) #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Load Balancing #Kubernetes #Security #Agile #AWS EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) #Deployment #DevOps #Automation #Ansible #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #EC2 #Scrum #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #API (Application Programming Interface) #GitHub #PCI (Payment Card Industry) #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Grafana #SQS (Simple Queue Service) #AutoScaling #Docker #Logging #Observability #Cloud #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #Istio #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Vulnerability Management #Terraform #Jira
Role description
Role: DevOps Engineer with AWS/GCP
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid from Day 1)
Visa's Accepted: USC/GC/H4-EAD/L2S/TN
12+ years of Experience
Mandatory: Previous work Experience with Discover Financial Services
Key Skills:
Cloud & Infrastructure (DFS-Standard AWS Focus):
AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS/SQS), networking fundamentals, load balancing, security groups, cloud cost optimization.
CI/CD Engineering:
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker (where applicable), end-to-end pipeline design, deployment automation, rollout strategies (blue/green, canary).
Containerization & Orchestration:
Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd preferred), container security, cluster maintenance, autoscaling, node lifecycle operations.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform (primary), CloudFormation (secondary), Terragrunt, reusable IaC modules, environment provisioning automation.
Configuration Management:
Ansible, Chef/Puppet (legacy), secrets management (Vault/AWS Secrets Manager), OS hardening (Linux).
Monitoring, Logging & Observability:
Splunk (DFS-wide standard), Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing, alerting automation & SLO/SLA reporting.
SRE & Reliability Practices:
Incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook creation, chaos engineering, performance tuning, resiliency design.
Security & Compliance (Critical for DFS):
PCI compliance, vulnerability management, secure CI/CD practices, identity governance, encryption standards, artifact scanning (Twistlock, Aqua, etc.).
Release Engineering & Automation:
Automated build/release pipelines, artifact repositories (Nexus/Artifactory), versioning and release workflow management.
Networking & Systems Fundamentals:
DNS, TLS/SSL, firewalls, API gateways, load balancers, Linux systems administration (advanced), troubleshooting distributed systems.
Collaboration & SDLC:
Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, cross-functional work with development, security, architecture, and cloud platform teams.
Domain Knowledge:
Payments ecosystem, credit card processing, fraud detection platforms, real-time event-driven systems, regulatory operational standards.
Role: DevOps Engineer with AWS/GCP
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid from Day 1)
Visa's Accepted: USC/GC/H4-EAD/L2S/TN
12+ years of Experience
Mandatory: Previous work Experience with Discover Financial Services
Key Skills:
Cloud & Infrastructure (DFS-Standard AWS Focus):
AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS/SQS), networking fundamentals, load balancing, security groups, cloud cost optimization.
CI/CD Engineering:
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker (where applicable), end-to-end pipeline design, deployment automation, rollout strategies (blue/green, canary).
Containerization & Orchestration:
Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd preferred), container security, cluster maintenance, autoscaling, node lifecycle operations.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform (primary), CloudFormation (secondary), Terragrunt, reusable IaC modules, environment provisioning automation.
Configuration Management:
Ansible, Chef/Puppet (legacy), secrets management (Vault/AWS Secrets Manager), OS hardening (Linux).
Monitoring, Logging & Observability:
Splunk (DFS-wide standard), Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing, alerting automation & SLO/SLA reporting.
SRE & Reliability Practices:
Incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook creation, chaos engineering, performance tuning, resiliency design.
Security & Compliance (Critical for DFS):
PCI compliance, vulnerability management, secure CI/CD practices, identity governance, encryption standards, artifact scanning (Twistlock, Aqua, etc.).
Release Engineering & Automation:
Automated build/release pipelines, artifact repositories (Nexus/Artifactory), versioning and release workflow management.
Networking & Systems Fundamentals:
DNS, TLS/SSL, firewalls, API gateways, load balancers, Linux systems administration (advanced), troubleshooting distributed systems.
Collaboration & SDLC:
Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, cross-functional work with development, security, architecture, and cloud platform teams.
Domain Knowledge:
Payments ecosystem, credit card processing, fraud detection platforms, real-time event-driven systems, regulatory operational standards.
