Senior DevOps​/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Dev Ops / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location:

Hybrid (Chicago, IL)

Be a part of a fast-growing, winning team helping Fortune 1000 consumer brands and retailers leverage AI-driven data insights.

Open Brand is one of the world's most respected market intelligence companies. Open Brand's data and market research products give manufacturers, retailers, and industry players a competitive edge across a wide range of industries (including IT, consumer electronics, home appliances, health, wellness, beauty, small appliances, and other consumer durables) and help marketing, product, sales, and pricing teams make more informed decisions in a rapidly changing market environment.

This is a permanent, hands-on Senior Dev Ops / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role owning the cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and operational reliability behind Open Brand's production data platform — the AWS estate, CI/CD and package tooling, observability, and incident response.

You will work at the intersection of cloud architecture, automation, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on:

• Owning the AWS estate end to end — architecture, cost, performance, and resilience
• Building and maintaining reliable CI/CD pipelines, package dependencies, and deployment automation
• Establishing real operating control — deploy, observe, troubleshoot, and recover — across the full platform
• Executing infrastructure migrations cleanly, on schedule, and without customer or data disruption

This is a build-and-run role, not a purely advisory one. You will own infrastructure end to end — design it, automate it, deploy it, monitor it, and improve it — with real accountability for uptime, cost, and delivery velocity.

Your first year is an integration year. Open Brand has grown through acquisition, and the near-term priority is consolidating inherited platform infrastructure onto Open Brand standards — separating cloud accounts, proving out monitoring and recovery, and retiring legacy dependencies. Success here means being effective inside imperfect inherited systems: making production safe and observable first, then modernizing deliberately.

What comes after is the larger half of the job. Once consolidation is complete, this role owns the platform's forward roadmap — cloud cost re-architecture, moving workloads onto managed and containerized services, deepening automation and observability, and scaling the infrastructure behind a growing data business. We are hiring an owner for the platform, not a migration.

You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Data, Security, and IT teams, reporting to the VP of Dev Ops. This role does not focus on people management, but requires strong judgment, independence, and end-to-end ownership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the AWS environment across production, QA, and shared services accounts — including account strategy, IAM, networking, EKS/ECS/Lambda, S3, logging, and billing structure
• Lead right-sizing and re-architecture of a large EC2 footprint, moving workloads to appropriate instance families, purchase models, and managed services
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or equivalent) so environments are reproducible and reviewable
• Own DNS, certificates, and CDN configuration, including renewal automation and domain transitions
• Establish cost visibility — tagging standards, allocation reporting, budgets, and anomaly alerting — and drive measurable reductions in cloud spend
• Plan and execute data center and legacy workload decommissioning, including migration sequencing and rollback planning
• Design for resilience: multi-AZ posture, documented recovery objectives, and tested backup restores — validated by actual recovery, not by the presence of a backup job
• Own capacity planning and the infrastructure roadmap as the business grows — evaluating managed services, containerization, and architectural changes on their operational and cost merits

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, or equivalent) from commit through production deployment, including runner…