Advanced DevOps Engineer at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois

Job Description:

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $62 billion in assets whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Guided by its “Different Approach, Better Results” philosophy, Wintrust offers the sophisticated resources of a large bank while providing a community banking experience to each customer. Wintrust operates more than 200 retail banking locations through 16 community bank subsidiaries in the greater Chicago, southern Wisconsin, west Michigan, northwest Indiana, and southwest Florida market areas. In addition, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units, providing residential mortgage origination, wealth management, commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing/outsourced administrative services to the temporary staffing services industry, and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges. Our unique business model is a competitive strength and value driver, powered by our talented colleagues who put our customers first and achieve better results for our clients.

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 11 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)




• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible




• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few




• Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

• This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business




• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

Position Overview

Responsible for building and extending evolving continuous delivery technology platforms with the goal of moving changes to production faster and safer, while ensuring operational best practices are supported. The position is highly technical able to collaborate with architects, engineers, and developers to deliver solutions. 

Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining production systems, including release management, automation, system maintenance, and configuration and use of source code management systems and code build systems.

What You’ll Do

• Creates, develops, and manages the deployment architecture for applications, Develops monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts




• Develop or receive designs for changes to systems. Work with interal department teams, external vendors or other teams to ensure the correct design and implementation of components that require deployment.




• Operational point of contact for development, operations and testing. Oversees change management and configuration management operating mechanisms




• Support development team and development processes, including user management, automated testing, and environment configuration.




• Works in a team environment by submitting design, source code, and unit test cases for review.




• Monitoring development activities to detect faults or inefficiencies in the processes currently in use.




• Understand where automation can be applied to various aspects of the development process and lead projects to implement these solutions to gain organizational savings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related analytical field (Chemistry, Analytics, Math etc..)




• 4+ years of relevant DevOps or development experience including hands-on technical operations and coding.




• At least 3 years of experience working with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment tools and DevOps tools




• Experience in cloud computing platforms and deploying and managing a range of services in “the Cloud.” 




• Demonstrated experience, troubleshooting problems and working with the development teams to resolve any production service issues

Benefits

Medical Insurance • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment • Short-term and long-term Disability Insurance • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount • Critical Illness Insurance • Accident Insurance • Transportation and Commuting Benefits • Banking Benefits • Pet Insurance

Compensation

The estimated salary range for this role is $110,000.00 - $120,000.00, along with eligibility to earn an annual bonus. Actual salaries may vary based on several factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills and experience.

#LI-Hybrid

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.