Devops Lead Jobs in Illinois
Devops Lead jobs in Illinois are in strong demand, concentrated in financial services, enterprise technology, healthcare IT, and logistics sectors, with openings at every level from mid-level engineers stepping into leadership through seasoned senior leads. Chicago anchors the market and draws the most postings, while Naperville and Schaumburg also see consistent activity from the large corporate campuses that ring the metro. Employers like Allstate, United Airlines, and Accenture have long-running Illinois presences and regularly seek devops leads with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, and platform engineering expertise. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!
HYBRID: Qualified candidates must live or relocate within a 180-mile radius of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.
HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL ; Richardson, TX ; Dunwoody, GA ; Tempe, AZ
SPONSORSHIP: Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.
Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential
Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help establish and lead engineering enablement capabilities for our Contact Center technology ecosystem.
This role will be a key member of a new Contact Center Central Platform Engineering capability focused on accelerating software delivery across multiple product teams through standardization, automation, reusable engineering capabilities and developer self-service.
The engineer will partner closely with product engineers, architecture, SRE and other technology teams to create developer platforms, golden paths, reusable CI/CD capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, workflow automation, observability patterns and engineering standards.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role with significant technical leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate will help shift teams from independently building and maintaining common engineering capabilities toward a build once, automate once, standardize once and enable every team model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of Central Platform Engineering capabilities that accelerate software delivery across product teams
- Build developer platforms and golden paths providing reusable, self-service capabilities for React, Node.js, Java, Data/Analytics and GenAI workloads.
- Design and standardize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, deployment and rollback capabilities.
- Develop reusable AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automate application/environment provisioning.
- Integrate and automate engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD tooling.
- Partner with SRE and product teams to establish common observability, monitoring, SLO, resiliency and operational-readiness patterns.
- Enable AI/GenAI engineering through reusable delivery, evaluation, observability, security and guardrail patterns.
- Identify duplicated engineering work and convert common solutions into reusable platform capabilities and automation.
- Partner with embedded product-team engineers to drive standards, adoption, documentation and engineering best practices.
- Measure and continuously improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability and platform adoption.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), and AWS cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Git/GitHub, branching and pull-request workflows, reusable workflows, automated testing and release automation
- Experience supporting application delivery across Java, Node.js, React, and/or data workloads.
- Experience with observability, reliability, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and automated security controls.
- Experience enabling AI/GenAI workloads, including delivery automation, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and operational monitoring.
Additional / Desired Skills
- Experience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), platform engineering capabilities, golden paths or developer self-service solutions.
- Experience with containers and serverless technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.
- Experience integrating and automating engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, CI/CD, and AWS.
- Knowledge of SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, resiliency, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance engineering.
- Experience with data/analytics platforms, data pipelines, APIs, enterprise integration patterns; contact-center or Amazon Connect integration experience is a plus.
- Experience implementing automated governance, compliance and policy-as-code capabilities.
Our Benefits
Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!
- Potential starting salary range: $100,000 - $142,000. Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience. High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
- Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary
At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!
- Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
- Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
- Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
- Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
- Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
- Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.
Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help establish and lead engineering enablement capabilities for our Contact Center technology ecosystem.
This role will be a key member of a new Contact Center Central Platform Engineering capability focused on accelerating software delivery across multiple product teams through standardization, automation, reusable engineering capabilities and developer self-service.
The engineer will partner closely with product engineers, architecture, SRE and other technology teams to create developer platforms, golden paths, reusable CI/CD capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, workflow automation, observability patterns and engineering standards.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role with significant technical leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate will help shift teams from independently building and maintaining common engineering capabilities toward a build once, automate once, standardize once and enable every team model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of Central Platform Engineering capabilities that accelerate software delivery across product teams
- Build developer platforms and golden paths providing reusable, self-service capabilities for React, Node.js, Java, Data/Analytics and GenAI workloads.
- Design and standardize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, deployment and rollback capabilities.
- Develop reusable AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automate application/environment provisioning.
- Integrate and automate engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD tooling.
- Partner with SRE and product teams to establish common observability, monitoring, SLO, resiliency and operational-readiness patterns.
- Enable AI/GenAI engineering through reusable delivery, evaluation, observability, security and guardrail patterns.
- Identify duplicated engineering work and convert common solutions into reusable platform capabilities and automation.
- Partner with embedded product-team engineers to drive standards, adoption, documentation and engineering best practices.
- Measure and continuously improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability and platform adoption.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), and AWS cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Git/GitHub, branching and pull-request workflows, reusable workflows, automated testing and release automation
- Experience supporting application delivery across Java, Node.js, React, and/or data workloads.
- Experience with observability, reliability, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and automated security controls.
- Experience enabling AI/GenAI workloads, including delivery automation, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and operational monitoring.
Additional / Desired Skills
- Experience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), platform engineering capabilities, golden paths or developer self-service solutions.
- Experience with containers and serverless technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.
- Experience integrating and automating engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, CI/CD, and AWS.
- Knowledge of SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, resiliency, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance engineering.
- Experience with data/analytics platforms, data pipelines, APIs, enterprise integration patterns; contact-center or Amazon Connect integration experience is a plus.
- Experience implementing automated governance, compliance and policy-as-code capabilities.
Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!
HYBRID: Qualified candidates must live or relocate within a 180-mile radius of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.
HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL ; Richardson, TX ; Dunwoody, GA ; Tempe, AZ
SPONSORSHIP: Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.
Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential
Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help establish and lead engineering enablement capabilities for our Contact Center technology ecosystem.
This role will be a key member of a new Contact Center Central Platform Engineering capability focused on accelerating software delivery across multiple product teams through standardization, automation, reusable engineering capabilities and developer self-service.
The engineer will partner closely with product engineers, architecture, SRE and other technology teams to create developer platforms, golden paths, reusable CI/CD capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, workflow automation, observability patterns and engineering standards.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role with significant technical leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate will help shift teams from independently building and maintaining common engineering capabilities toward a build once, automate once, standardize once and enable every team model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of Central Platform Engineering capabilities that accelerate software delivery across product teams
- Build developer platforms and golden paths providing reusable, self-service capabilities for React, Node.js, Java, Data/Analytics and GenAI workloads.
- Design and standardize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, deployment and rollback capabilities.
- Develop reusable AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automate application/environment provisioning.
- Integrate and automate engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD tooling.
- Partner with SRE and product teams to establish common observability, monitoring, SLO, resiliency and operational-readiness patterns.
- Enable AI/GenAI engineering through reusable delivery, evaluation, observability, security and guardrail patterns.
- Identify duplicated engineering work and convert common solutions into reusable platform capabilities and automation.
- Partner with embedded product-team engineers to drive standards, adoption, documentation and engineering best practices.
- Measure and continuously improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability and platform adoption.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), and AWS cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Git/GitHub, branching and pull-request workflows, reusable workflows, automated testing and release automation
- Experience supporting application delivery across Java, Node.js, React, and/or data workloads.
- Experience with observability, reliability, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and automated security controls.
- Experience enabling AI/GenAI workloads, including delivery automation, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and operational monitoring.
Additional / Desired Skills
- Experience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), platform engineering capabilities, golden paths or developer self-service solutions.
- Experience with containers and serverless technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.
- Experience integrating and automating engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, CI/CD, and AWS.
- Knowledge of SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, resiliency, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance engineering.
- Experience with data/analytics platforms, data pipelines, APIs, enterprise integration patterns; contact-center or Amazon Connect integration experience is a plus.
- Experience implementing automated governance, compliance and policy-as-code capabilities.
Our Benefits
Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!
- Potential starting salary range: $100,000 - $142,000. Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience. High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
- Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary
At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!
- Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
- Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
- Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
- Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
- Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
- Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.
Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help establish and lead engineering enablement capabilities for our Contact Center technology ecosystem.
This role will be a key member of a new Contact Center Central Platform Engineering capability focused on accelerating software delivery across multiple product teams through standardization, automation, reusable engineering capabilities and developer self-service.
The engineer will partner closely with product engineers, architecture, SRE and other technology teams to create developer platforms, golden paths, reusable CI/CD capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, workflow automation, observability patterns and engineering standards.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role with significant technical leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate will help shift teams from independently building and maintaining common engineering capabilities toward a build once, automate once, standardize once and enable every team model.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of Central Platform Engineering capabilities that accelerate software delivery across product teams
- Build developer platforms and golden paths providing reusable, self-service capabilities for React, Node.js, Java, Data/Analytics and GenAI workloads.
- Design and standardize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, deployment and rollback capabilities.
- Develop reusable AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automate application/environment provisioning.
- Integrate and automate engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD tooling.
- Partner with SRE and product teams to establish common observability, monitoring, SLO, resiliency and operational-readiness patterns.
- Enable AI/GenAI engineering through reusable delivery, evaluation, observability, security and guardrail patterns.
- Identify duplicated engineering work and convert common solutions into reusable platform capabilities and automation.
- Partner with embedded product-team engineers to drive standards, adoption, documentation and engineering best practices.
- Measure and continuously improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability and platform adoption.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), and AWS cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Git/GitHub, branching and pull-request workflows, reusable workflows, automated testing and release automation
- Experience supporting application delivery across Java, Node.js, React, and/or data workloads.
- Experience with observability, reliability, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and automated security controls.
- Experience enabling AI/GenAI workloads, including delivery automation, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and operational monitoring.
Additional / Desired Skills
- Experience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), platform engineering capabilities, golden paths or developer self-service solutions.
- Experience with containers and serverless technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.
- Experience integrating and automating engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, CI/CD, and AWS.
- Knowledge of SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, resiliency, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance engineering.
- Experience with data/analytics platforms, data pipelines, APIs, enterprise integration patterns; contact-center or Amazon Connect integration experience is a plus.
- Experience implementing automated governance, compliance and policy-as-code capabilities.
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What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in devops lead jobs across Illinois.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
- Proficiency in cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Proven leadership experience managing or mentoring a devops or infrastructure engineering team
- Strong working knowledge of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
Devops Lead Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a devops lead in Illinois?
Devops lead roles in Illinois require no state-issued license, so the path runs through technical credentials and progressive experience. Most Illinois employers expect a degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering, combined with certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator. Candidates typically move into a lead position after several years as a senior devops or platform engineer, building a portfolio that demonstrates ownership of production infrastructure and team coordination.
How much do devops leads make in Illinois?
Devops leads in Illinois earn a median of about $132,110 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $80,980 for the lowest 10% to over $194,740 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire devops leads in Illinois?
Employers hiring devops leads in Illinois right now include AbbVie, Ecentria, and State Farm, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Illinois's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters and large financial services firms in the Chicago metro means sustained demand well beyond occasional project hiring.
Which Illinois cities have the most devops lead jobs?
Chicago, Bloomington, and Northbrook are the Illinois cities with the most devops lead openings. Chicago dominates because of its dense concentration of financial services firms, healthcare systems, and enterprise technology companies, while Naperville and Schaumburg draw consistent postings from the large corporate campuses of insurers, manufacturers, and consulting firms located along the I-88 technology corridor west of the city.
Are there remote devops lead jobs in Illinois?
Yes, and more than most fields. Devops lead work is inherently cloud-based and tool-driven, making it well suited to remote and hybrid arrangements. About 100% of devops lead openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how widely distributed modern infrastructure teams have become. Roles focused on cloud architecture, pipeline development, and platform engineering tend to offer the most location flexibility, while positions requiring hands-on data center work are more likely to mandate on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a devops lead in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a devops lead role from a senior individual-contributor position in site reliability engineering, systems administration, or cloud operations. Large Illinois employers like Allstate, Discover Financial, and Northwestern Medicine run rotational technology programs and associate engineer tracks that build the infrastructure and automation skills devops leads need. Earning a recognized cloud certification and contributing to open-source infrastructure projects creates a portfolio that compensates for limited formal lead experience when applying to those programs.
Where can I find and apply to devops lead jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to devops lead jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings. Search the listings to see roles that match your experience level, location preference, and technical focus, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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