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work model in either our Chicago, IL or Overland Park, KS office.While the internal title for this position is Senior Automation Engineer, this role has been posted externally under a different title to better align with…
Engineering & IT · Kansas City, MO
DevOps Engineer jobs in Kansas City, MO
DevOps engineers build the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software quickly and safely. The work centers on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.
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$34–$88/hr
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$120k
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strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for Cboe’s Cloud Operations team. The Cloud Operations team is responsible fo…
$110.7k - $218.3k
Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world's leading life sciences companies to reimagine how their commercial, medical, and field organiz…
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Industry/SectorNot ApplicableSpecialismSalesforceManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryAt PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business…
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principles, methodologies, and technologies.Collaborate with Network and Firewall Teams, Application Teams, Server Teams, Cloud Engineering Teams etc. to design, implement, and support an enterprise-class application-cen…
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and identify potential risk situations* Familiarity with agile software delivery methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Jira, Azure DevOps and Rally* Experience using AI tools to generate requirements, user stories and w…
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our team.KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Global Security Engineering Lead to join our Global Digital Group which is part of KPMG... ...orchestration, integration and content-as-code roadmap; drive DevOps maturity t…
Job DescriptionWithin the organizational structure of radiology performs interventional procedures to assist in direct patient care.ACH, ACRH, and SLS new hire/transfer will have 60 days from start to obtain a Kansas LR…
$116.2k - $229.1k
Position Summary AI & Engineering/ EaaS - DevOps Engineer IIIBuild and scale modern DevOps capabilities that help clients accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and modernize engineering operations. As a Senior Consul…
better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. HDR Engineering is currently seeking a Senior Electrical Studies Engineer to join our growing…
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What devops engineers earn in Kansas City
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $34–$48 | $70k–$99k |
| Mid level | $48–$68 | $99k–$141k |
| Senior | $65–$88 | $136k–$183k |
Adjusted for the Kansas City market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
AWS, GCP, or AzureKubernetes and DockerTerraform or other IaCCI/CD pipelinesLinux and shell scriptingPython or GoMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)Incident responseCost optimization
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built or improved.
Cover the stages, what you automated, and the measurable result — faster deploys, fewer failed releases. Numbers make this answer.
A deploy just took production down. What do you do?
Roll back first, diagnose second, communicate throughout. Then talk about prevention: canaries, health checks, smaller changes.
How do you manage infrastructure as code, and why does it matter?
Explain reproducibility, review, and drift prevention with a tool like Terraform. Mention how you handle state and secrets — that is where real experience shows.
How would you reduce a team's cloud bill?
Start with visibility (tagging, cost reports), then rightsizing, reserved capacity, and killing orphaned resources. A real example with a dollar figure is ideal.
How do you decide what to monitor and alert on?
Alert on symptoms users feel, not every metric. Talk about SLOs and reducing alert fatigue — mature answers focus on fewer, better alerts.
How do you roll out a risky infrastructure change?
Describe staging environments, incremental rollout, rollback plans, and communicating with affected teams before you touch anything.
How do you handle secrets in pipelines and applications?
Name a secrets manager, rotation, and least privilege, and the anti-pattern you are avoiding: credentials in code or CI variables sprayed everywhere.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.
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Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.
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Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.
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Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.
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Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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