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Resource Innovations

Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Resource Innovations, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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Overview Resource Innovations is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer. This is a remote position requiring occasional in-person office meetings for candidates residing in one of the following metro areas: San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; or Madison, WI. This position will work on a wide range of SaaS products on the AWS platform that change how utilities manage business processes and customer initiatives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, demand response, and conservation. We are looking for candidates who want to work on things that make an impact on the world and are passionate about product craftsmanship.

The Lead AWS DevOps Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing AWS technology infrastructure leveraging cloud services and automation to ensure SaaS solutions are optimized for functionality, performance, and cost. This role will be responsible for developing and driving AWS cloud deployment, integration of new cloud services, CI/CD automation and pipelines.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Strategy

Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions to support our SaaS products.

Define and continuously improve standards for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.

Lead the team in adopting modern practices like containerization, serverless computing, and Infrastructure as Code.

Drive the roadmap for DevOps tooling, automation, and scalability improvements.

Hands‑On Engineering

Build and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud environments.

Develop and integrate next‑generation CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated deployments and testing.

Implement configuration management, monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure proactive issue detection.

Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues in real time.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Act as a technical lead and mentor for the DevOps team—review designs, guide implementation, and share best practices.

Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, releases, and operational improvements.

Participate in sprint planning, stand‑ups, and cross‑team discussions to prioritize DevOps initiatives.

Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

8+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience with AWS cloud.

Proven experience leading or mentoring a DevOps team.

Deep technical expertise in:

AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, CloudFront, Route 53, Glacier, Lambda, EventBridge.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, automation pipelines.

Linux administration and scripting: Bash, Python.

Security and compliance: ITIL, NIST, SOC2.

Monitoring and logging: Grafana, CloudWatch, log analysis.

Messaging/queueing systems: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, SES.

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).

Experience with serverless architectures.

Ability to design infrastructure from scratch and scale existing platforms.

Strong problem‑solving skills and adaptability to new technologies.

Nice to Have: Experience with AWS Transfer Family; hands‑on experience in architecting modern SaaS infrastructure.

Benefits Resource Innovations offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. The base pay range for this position is $135,000 - $150,000 per year. In addition to base pay, employees are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, education and location.

About Resource Innovations Resource Innovations (RI) is a women‑led energy transformation firm focused on impact. We build on our expertise in energy efficiency and expand our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. We are leading the charge to power change.

RI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. We comply with applicable state and local laws governing non‑discrimination in employment where the company does work.

Other Employment details: Seniority level – Mid-Senior level; Employment type – Full-time; Industry – Utilities.

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