The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Sears is hiring a DevOps Engineer in Rockford, IL.

• Role description

  Our next DevOps Engineer will spend less time in meetings and more time in Site Reliability Engineering, which is how Sears prefers to operate. This role blends $87,000 - $126,000 pay with the autonomy to shape Site Reliability Engineering work and a team that grows together.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
  • Translate fuzzy product wishes from Sears stakeholders into shippable Pulumi services
  • Translate the feedback-hungry Critical Thinking outage into fixes that make the next Rockford launch dull
  • Own the empathy-led Prometheus subsystem that the rest of Sears quietly depends on
  • Translate collaborative business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
  • Tune Pulumi caching so Sears survives the Rockford launch spike on the same hardware
  • Profile Organization memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Rockford nodes
  • Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Sears stack

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong working knowledge of Organization and Site Reliability Engineering
  • At least 6 years of standing behind your own estimates
  • Familiarity with Sears-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
  • Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Rockford, IL deadlines bring

  Sears began as a side project in Rockford and grew into the hardworking platform thousands of technology users now rely on. The Sears promise is plain: clear expectations, real autonomy, and zero surprise reviews.

  Beginning at $87,000 - $126,000, your growth is mentored, your benefits are full, and your hours flex to match life in Rockford, IL.

  Hot off the queue today, Sears wants to hear from you this week.

  Apply now and a real person from Sears will get back to you, not an autoresponder.

• Required skills

  • Prometheus
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • PagerDuty
  • DNS Management
  • Go
  • Serverless
  • Pulumi
  • Organization
  • Critical Thinking

• Benefits & perks

  • Equipment and hardware allowance
  • Paid jury and witness duty
  • Paid relocation for international moves
  • Smoking cessation programs
  • Remote work flexibility
  • Open and transparent culture
  • Annual bonus program
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Compressed Workweek
  • Mental health days
  • Meditation and mindfulness apps
  • Employee resource groups (ERGs)
  • Eldercare support
  • Gym membership reimbursement

• Apply before 2026-12-25

  Submit your application for this Contract technology position.