Senior DevOps Engineer - AI Ecosystem
Lenovo
Software Engineering, Data Science
Chicago, IL, USA
USD 170k-190k / year
Why Work at Lenovo
Description and Requirements
About Our Team
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive build reliability, release consistency, and operational efficiency by integrating AI‑Agent-assisted tooling into the development lifecycle. This position will ensure operational rigor and support to ensure integrated AI agents improve velocity and reliability.
We recently introduced Qira, our new cross‑device Personal AI that works seamlessly across Lenovo and Motorola products. More information can be found here: [1] https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-unveils-lenovo-and-motorola-qira/
Location: Chicago, IL, Hybrid (3 days onsite and 2 days remote)
Key Responsibilities
- Manage Gerrit, GitHub repositories, branching strategies, permissions, and workflow governance.
- Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, including automated builds, tests, signing, and deployment workflows.
- Integrate AI‑Agent–based automation for code validation, compliance checks, pre‑commit analysis, and operational troubleshooting.
- Implement configuration management best practices across environments, ensuring traceability, reproducibility, and audit readiness.
- Collaborate with development, QA, and release engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of build and release processes.
- Monitor pipeline health, resolve build failures, and drive continuous improvements in reliability and performance.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.
- Support migration, modernization, and workflow transformation initiatives as the organization evolves from legacy systems.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- 7+yrs of Experience handling enterprise CI/CD pipelines in a CloudOps, DevOps or Data Engineering capacity.
- 5+yrs of Experience writing CI/CD automations.
- Experience integrating AI tooling to CI/CD workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+yrs of Experience writing CI/CD automations utilizing Jenkins, Groovy, Python, or Bash.
- 5+yrs of Experience handling repository governance, ideally with GitHub Enterprise, Actions.
- Experience integrating or working with AI‑Agents for developer workflow acceleration.
- Deep understanding of configuration management principles, artifact versioning, and release workflows.
- Knowledge of secure build pipelines, code‑scanning tools, and compliance automation.
- Experience with cloud‑based build infrastructure and containerization with Docker or Kubernetes.
- Strong debugging, problem‑solving, and cross-team communication skills.
- Experience documenting, communicating, and escalating issues in a timely way.
- Cultural Competency working across Chinese, Desi, American, European, and South American cultural contexts, ensuring messages are communicated with clarity and tact.
- 1+yr of Experience working with Gerrit is a plus.
The base salary budgeted range for this position is $170-190k. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission. This position operates on a hybrid schedule to our Chicago, IL location and is onsite 3 days per week.
Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com.
In compliance with Colorado's EPEWA, the expected application deadline for this position is August 14, 2025. This applies to both external and internal candidates.