Site Reliability Engineer
Job in
Riverwoods, Lake County, Illinois, USA
Listed on 2025-12-28
Listing for:
Next Ventures
Full Time
position Listed on 2025-12-28
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing, SRE/Site Reliability, IT Support
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description:
We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability/Dev Ops 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, Cloud Formation, 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 Dev Ops 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, Dev Ops 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, Git Lab 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, Open Telemetry)
- 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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