Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

At Piper Sandler, we connect capital with opportunity to build a better future. We believe that diverse teams with unique backgrounds, skills and experiences yield more innovative solutions. This is reflected in our commitment to engage, hire, and retain bright, committed people to work in partnership within an inclusive environment that allows each person to achieve personal success and add value to our teams and communities.

We are currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Platform Engineering team in Greenwich, CT. This role requires a minimum of 3 days working from our Greenwich office. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will help operate and improve the reliability of a large-scale, hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises colocation datacenters and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).

You will work alongside experienced engineers supporting a broad technology estate — including enterprise middleware, databases, storage, and growing AI workloads — applying Dev Sec Ops  and Git Ops practices to keep our platforms performant, secure, and resilient. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate eager to build deep, hands‑on infrastructure and reliability engineering experience in a complex, real‑world environment.

• Monitor production systems and respond to incidents using enterprise observability tooling, contributing to alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
• Assist in operating and maintaining on-premises colocation and cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and enterprise middleware layers.
• Support multi‑cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and identity management.
• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments.
• Participate in Dev Sec Ops  and Git Ops workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and policy enforcement.
• Support cloud security posture management efforts, helping remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud environments.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and contribute to blameless post‑incident reviews.
• Document runbooks, procedures, and system configurations to support team knowledge sharing.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Foundational understanding of Linux and/or Windows server operating systems.
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Exposure to at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or Power Shell).
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts across one or more of Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a desire to learn in a fast‑paced environment.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical processes clearly.

• Experience in infrastructure, cloud, Dev Ops, or SRE‑related roles.
• Hands‑on exposure to observability or monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible and Git Ops workflows.
• Experience with containerization or orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals AZ‑900, GCP Associate, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with cloud security posture or compliance concepts.

The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000 - $150,000 per year. Placement within this range is dependent upon level of experience, location, and other factors. This position is eligible for annual incentive compensation which will be a part of the total compensation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran or status with regard to public assistance.