Top Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead operational reliability and platform enablement for Databricks: build monitoring, CI/CD, deployment standards, compute and job policies, observability, runbooks, and governance to support secure, cost-aware, production data workloads across regulated environments. Mentor engineers and align platform with cloud/infrastructure and compliance requirements.

Lead and mentor a global SRE team while overseeing incident response, system health, availability, performance, monitoring, logging, automation, and capacity management. Develop reliability tooling, improve observability, support on-call operations, and partner with engineering and product teams on reliability-focused initiatives. The role also involves project leadership, compliance adherence, and proactive reduction of operational toil through automation and engineering practices.

Ensure reliability, scalability, and usability of network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. Define requirements and SLOs, build automation and CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with dev/QA to improve code and stability, troubleshoot complex network issues (on-call), and mentor teammates while driving architectural standards.

Lead end-to-end deployment and operation of cloud infrastructure and Symmetri environments for US customers. Provision, configure, monitor, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot cloud, single-tenant, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Manage Kubernetes, networking, IAM, infrastructure as code, resource planning, incident response, runbooks, and root-cause analysis. Represent the company in customer security reviews and help establish US deployment and operations standards and teams.

Designs and develops Python-based AWS cloud solutions, reliability tools, automation, observability, and Terraform infrastructure. Builds CI/CD pipelines, defines SRE standards and SLOs, supports incident management, and improves platform reliability through monitoring, postmortems, testing, and proactive toil reduction. Collaborates with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver scalable cloud automation across the Federal Reserve System.

Own the reliability, performance, resilience, observability, and security of AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure supporting products and AI/ML workloads. Define SLOs, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, build Terraform automation, optimize cloud costs, reduce operational toil, and establish deployment standards that help engineers ship reliably. Participate in on-call rotations and maintain HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.

Serve as Vida’s first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer, modernizing Terraform, standardizing environments, improving CI/CD, scaling GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure, upgrading databases and runtimes, and strengthening monitoring, observability, security, and operational processes. The role includes building runbooks, on-call and escalation procedures, supporting enterprise launches, managing infrastructure costs, and evaluating multi-cluster Kubernetes architecture in a fully remote environment.

Maintain, operate, and enhance a multi-cloud platform supporting enterprise payment systems. Design resilient microservices and cloud-native architectures, manage Kubernetes environments, implement monitoring and alerting, evaluate emerging technologies, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires deep AWS or Azure expertise, Terraform-based infrastructure automation, cloud networking, container security, and experience migrating large monolithic applications to scalable cloud platforms.

Own and improve CI/CD, developer tooling, agent harnesses, Kubernetes infrastructure, observability, cost management, and incident-response practices. Build platform capabilities that reduce engineering toil and improve delivery speed for conversational AI products. Participate in an on-call rotation for core infrastructure and help shape reliable, scalable systems across a fully remote engineering organization.

Own the reliability, scalability, and administration of production Vitess/MySQL and Cassandra databases. Design highly available architectures, replication, backup, recovery, security, and disaster recovery strategies. Lead incident response, on-call operations, monitoring, SLO development, root cause analysis, and production readiness reviews. Automate database and infrastructure operations using scripting, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins. Establish runbooks, escalation procedures, training materials, and mentor junior database SREs while partnering across engineering and infrastructure teams.

Leads site reliability engineering for mission-critical cloud platforms, focusing on disaster recovery drills, platform rebuild validation, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and system resilience. Collaborates across engineering, security, applications, and data teams while driving remediation and modernization efforts. The role requires deep AWS, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, automation, monitoring, and failure-analysis expertise, plus eligibility for Public Trust clearance.

Architects and owns highly available infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms supporting autonomous systems. Builds Golang backend services, platform tooling, observability systems, dashboards, alerts, and log aggregation. Partners with product teams to launch services, performs performance analysis, manages cloud upgrades, and participates in incident response and postmortems. Collaborates on cloud security risk assessments, intrusion detection, threat-feed systems, risk mitigation, and SaaS payment processes. Provides architectural leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.

Own production reliability across Azure, colocation, and edge Kubernetes environments. Build observability, alerting, automated recovery, high-availability architectures, deployment automation, and cost optimization. Lead incident response, troubleshoot distributed systems, improve disaster recovery and operational maturity, support platform lifecycle management, and mentor engineers. Participate in separate weekday and weekend on-call rotations for customer-facing systems.

Own database reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across cloud and on-premises environments. Build automated Kubernetes-based database platforms, infrastructure tooling, failover and backup systems, and self-healing capabilities. Lead observability, performance optimization, capacity planning, incident response, and safe migration practices. Partner with application teams, leverage AI for operational improvements, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive technical strategy for highly available database infrastructure.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Designs, operates, and improves scalable cloud and on-premise infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, data streaming systems, and observability tooling. Owns AWS reliability, security, cost efficiency, automation, progressive deployments, incident response, and production troubleshooting. Partners with software engineering teams to integrate services and drive continuous improvements in system performance, scalability, and uptime.

Owns reliability analysis for mission-critical electrical systems in data centers. Develops electrical BIA and FMEA packages, defines monitoring and maintenance strategies, validates one-line diagrams and redundancy assumptions, and recommends testing, spare-parts, redesign, and risk-reduction actions. Supports root-cause analyses, commissioning, vendor reviews, workshops, and design changes while communicating technical risks and tracking reliability improvements. Requires travel of 25% to 40% and occasional maintenance-window support.

Develop and maintain Kubernetes runtime environments, support developers, resolve critical issues, and participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

The role involves designing, optimizing, and maintaining PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance for mission-critical systems, while automating operational tasks and responding to incidents.

Lead the SRE function for NinjaTrader’s trading platform, ensuring availability, scalability, performance, and 99.95% uptime. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes services, resolving production incidents, participating in a 12x7 on-call rotation, automating deployments and operational tasks, designing monitoring and alerting systems, establishing SLIs/SLOs, using Terraform for infrastructure automation, and implementing cloud security and compliance practices. The role also mentors engineers and collaborates cross-functionally on reliable platform delivery.

Own and evolve the company-wide SRE strategy, reliability standards, observability practices, incident management, service ownership, SLOs, and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives, establish dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and escalation paths, improve production readiness and incident response, and operate large-scale distributed systems across AWS and Kubernetes. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and help shape the SRE function.

Lead and develop an SRE team responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, automation, and observability of Linux-based digital commerce infrastructure. Set SRE and DevOps strategy, modernize Kubernetes and CI/CD practices, establish automation and infrastructure-as-code standards, oversee incident response, and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Partner across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, and product teams while recruiting, mentoring, and developing SRE talent.

Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and CI/CD/IaC systems. Implement observability (monitoring, logging, alerting), automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain Akamai Cloud services.

Own reliability for Kong’s Volcano internal developer platform by defining SLOs, incident practices, and observability. Design multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps deployment automation, preview environments, managed PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage. Lead reliability and compliance initiatives with engineering, security, and OCTO leadership while evaluating emerging edge, serverless, vector database, and AI infrastructure technologies.

Lead site reliability engineering for Akamai’s compute infrastructure and services. Develop automation, define reliability requirements and standards, establish SLOs and KPIs, troubleshoot complex distributed-system and hardware issues, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in on-call rotations. Coordinate engineering teams, support strategic initiatives, mentor engineers, and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.