Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our Team:
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design and grit.
The Role:
Senior Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in automation and programming across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to develop and scale cloud-based solutions. You'll tackle complex challenges, collaborating closely with development and IT operations teams to enhance system visibility, improve communication, and deliver measurable business value. By optimizing feedback loops and building observable systems, you'll drive customer satisfaction and support revenue growth.
This role is based in our Chicago office, and we follow a hybrid policy in order to foster continuous collaboration.
Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and implementing system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.
• Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
• Work with a highly skilled team of engineers to scale improvements to the cloud and scale them.
• Own deployment, availability, reliability, and performance of the systems.
• Proactively identify and reduce issues by designing, testing, and implementing software-based solutions.
• Be a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 3 to 5 years of software DevOps experience.
• Strong scripting or programming skills for automating repetitive tasks
• DevOps (CI/CD, Docker and Terraform) Experience
• Experience architecting and automating cloud-native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
• Hands-on Experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other tools.
• Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Code Deploy (AWS)
• Hands-on Experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, and/or serverless technology.
• Good Debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with the software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
• Experience with DB deployment and writing SQL/PLSQL queries

Compensation and Benefits
At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That's why we champion your wellness through a wide-range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

• Financial Health
  • 75% 401k match up to 7%
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission

• Physical Health
  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance

• Emotional Health
  • Trust-Based Time Off
  • 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program
  • 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
  • Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Bonding Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities
  • Annual Education Stipend
  • Tuition Reimbursement

• Social Health
  • Charitable Matching Gifts program
  • Dollars for Doers volunteer program
  • Paid volunteering days
  • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Total Cash Compensation Range
$114,100.00 - 193,975.00 USD Annual
Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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