Site Reliability Engineer

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  • Riverwoods, IL
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
PracticeTechnologies Infrastructure & CloudLocation Riverwoods, United StatesType ContractJob Description:We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and security of our financial platforms. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer with deep experience in automating infrastructure, optimizing deployments, and building fault-tolerant systems in a regulated, high-stakes environment.Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the design and implementation of resilient, scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
  • Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
  • Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues to minimize downtime
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive observability solutions-logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting-to ensure full visibility into system performance and reliability
  • Support and optimize AWS EMR clusters for data processing workloads, ensuring stability, cost-efficiency, and integration with data pipelines
  • Champion automation and DevOps best practices across teams
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions
Requirements:
  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering roles
  • Expert-level knowledge of AWS (including EMR), Kubernetes, and Linux systems
  • Strong experience with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and scripting (Python, Bash)
  • Proven track record managing mission-critical systems in financial or similarly regulated industries
  • Deep understanding of observability tools and practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
  • Hands-on experience deploying, tuning, and managing AWS EMR clusters in production environments
Preferred:
  • Experience with SOC2, PCI, or other compliance frameworks
  • Relevant certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.)

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