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Site Reliability Engineer-7

Chicago, Illinois, United StatesOnsiteFull Time$150,845–$150,845 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team in Chicago, IL. This full-time role focuses on ensuring the resilience, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud-native systems on AWS. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure, developing CI/CD pipelines, and owning monitoring and alerting systems. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in SRE or related fields, deep expertise in AWS core services, IaC tools like Terraform, scripting languages such as Python or Go, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. You will also troubleshoot production incidents, optimize systems, and drive resilience testing. Collaboration with development teams and mentoring junior engineers are key aspects of this role.

Chicago, Illinois 60018 Posted March 29th, 2026

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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

DEVOPS ENGINEER

SENIOR EMAIL SECURITY ENGINEER

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