Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL

FTE Only

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep experience in AWS infrastructure, automation, observability, and production support. As an SRE, you will ensure our cloud-native systems are resilient, scalable, and efficient, driving reliability through code, not just processes.
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
• Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools
• Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Go, Shell, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems and networking
• Experience with Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, App Mesh)
• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Experience building self-healing systems and automated remediation
• Background in security, compliance, or multi-account/multi-region AWS architectures

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Harness
• Own and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with tools like Dynatrace/ Datadog
• Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct blameless postmortems, and improve incident response processes Optimize systems for cost, performance, and reliability
• Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing
• Collaborate with development teams to embed SRE practices like SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Mentor junior SREs and promote DevOps/SRE culture across the org

Required Skills