Top SRE Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Internship SRE role responsible for availability, performance, and scalability of an e-commerce supply-chain platform. Tasks include SLO/SLA definition, observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Tempo/OpenTelemetry), incident response, capacity planning, disaster recovery for PostgreSQL, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, and operational reliability for AI agent services. Mentored by Head of Technology/CTO with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

Build and manage highly available Kubernetes platforms on AWS. Responsibilities include Kubernetes and Helm platform creation, Terraform infrastructure automation, Karpenter scaling, Istio service mesh management, CI/CD enablement, incident response, security, compliance, monitoring, cost optimization, troubleshooting, and documentation. The role supports multi-region cloud environments and requires federal-environment access eligibility, U.S. Person documentation, and occasional travel for in-person onboarding.

Leads large-scale site reliability engineering strategy, architecting highly available and scalable systems, improving observability, automation, incident response, capacity planning, performance, and cloud costs. Builds self-healing mechanisms and AI agents that automate operational workflows, reduce TOIL, and support incident response and anomaly detection. Establishes AI security and governance controls, advises engineering leadership, leads cross-functional reliability initiatives, and mentors engineers developing production-grade SRE and agentic solutions.

Design, automate, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure and CI/CD platforms. Troubleshoot and debug Linux systems and networking, automate infrastructure (Terraform/Chef/Ansible/Puppet), and improve scalability, reliability, and platform velocity. Participate in on-call rotation and collaborate across engineering teams.

Audit infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, incident response, on-call practices, and internal tools. Produce actionable audit reports, implement code and configuration fixes, improve SLOs and reliability practices, advise on scalable architecture, and partner with engineers on implementation and handoff. The role is a fully remote, part-time consulting engagement with potential for full-time conversion.

Owns reliability, observability, and incident response for a GPUaaS platform. Defines SLOs, builds monitoring and alerting systems, leads major incidents and post-incident reviews, automates operational processes, maintains runbooks, manages on-call operations, coordinates with engineering teams, drives chaos testing, reports SLA performance, and mentors junior engineers.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will enhance the Splunk ecosystem and develop an Observability Platform by automating infrastructure and managing complex distributed systems, while optimizing log collection and incident response.

Lead design, development, deployment, and scaling of cloud infrastructure and SRE tooling. Build automation, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning, and reliability improvements; collaborate with product teams to define non-functional requirements and resolve production issues.

Manage and optimize a multi-account AWS environment supporting production healthcare applications and analytics platforms. Responsibilities include AWS infrastructure administration, CI/CD and infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, on-call support, disaster recovery validation, HIPAA/HiTrust compliance, IAM and security controls, and support for containerized Java and Python applications. The role also contributes to Kubernetes and EKS modernization initiatives and partners with developers to resolve complex production issues.

Owns reliability, observability, performance, and security for a multi-region SaaS platform. Responsibilities include managing Datadog, implementing APM and tracing, defining SLOs, developing automation, expanding infrastructure as code and CI/CD, automating operational workflows, maintaining security controls, participating in incident response, documenting procedures, and mentoring engineers.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

Lead infrastructure modernization and platform reliability across multiple cloud providers. Design infrastructure as code, operate Kubernetes and Linux environments, improve CI/CD and deployment tooling, establish SLI/SLO practices, strengthen observability, lead incident response, manage cloud costs, and partner on security and compliance. Provide technical leadership through architecture guidance, mentorship, engineering standards, and roadmap development while participating in on-call support.

Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and SRE capabilities for an enterprise AI platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code, landing zones, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, incident response, SLOs, production readiness, automation, cost optimization, and support for hybrid, edge, air-gapped, and customer-controlled environments. The role is remote, client-facing, and requires strong collaboration and reliability ownership.

The Site Reliability Engineer II ensures the reliability, availability, performance, and security of critical cloud systems and services. Responsibilities include developing automation for provisioning and configuration management, maintaining monitoring and alerting, optimizing infrastructure performance, supporting high availability, and enabling continuous integration and delivery. The role collaborates with security teams and drives operational improvements across cloud and network infrastructure.

Lead cloud, DevOps, and SRE architecture efforts to scale CareSource's digital platform. Partner with Cloud, DevOps, Security, and SRE teams to design infrastructure, build Terraform templates, enhance CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring/alerting, and improve reliability, scalability, and incident response for enterprise-scale digital products.

This internship role focuses on SRE skills, requiring collaboration and problem-solving in dynamic environments for Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange team.

Build and maintain reliable, scalable cloud compute platforms across distributed services. Troubleshoot Linux, networking, and production issues; develop automation and AI-assisted tooling; improve monitoring, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs; conduct incident response and root cause analysis; and partner with engineering teams on system design, deployment safety, and operational readiness.

Designs, deploys, and maintains resilient AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. Builds automation, GitHub Actions components, internal AI-assisted operational tools, and observability systems. Leads incident response, postmortems, and SLO/SLI management while ensuring HIPAA compliance and high availability. Collaborates across teams on architecture reviews, risk reduction, clinical safety, and reliability best practices.

Leads SRE engineering leaders and engineers while defining enterprise observability, reliability, and platform strategy across GCP, on-premise, manufacturing, distribution, and campus environments. Oversees vendor-agnostic tooling, OpenTelemetry integrations, CI/CD observability, SRE maturity models, and Agentic AI initiatives. Drives adoption of SRE practices, develops technical roadmaps, partners with senior leadership and operational teams, and maintains hands-on architectural and technical credibility.

Lead SRE work partnering with development teams to design and implement availability, scalability, observability, and automation for production systems. Build tooling, manage incident response and RCAs, optimize capacity and performance, mentor engineers, maintain runbooks, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Own and operate large-scale infrastructure for sports betting and media platforms across cloud and production environments. Lead infrastructure migrations, build Kubernetes platform tooling and CI/CD automation, improve observability and alerting, support development teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, production troubleshooting, cross-team project leadership, technical communication, and mentoring.

Build, maintain, and operate Ookla’s globally distributed infrastructure platform at massive scale. Responsibilities include managing cloud instances, containers, serverless applications, databases, streaming systems, and big-data tooling; supporting 24/7 production operations and on-call rotations; implementing security programs; improving deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and reliability; and guiding software and data engineering teams on operational best practices and troubleshooting.

Build and lead a centralized observability platform for satellite, ground-station, and distributed network systems. Responsibilities include scaling metrics, logging, and tracing infrastructure; defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; enabling application instrumentation; automating deployments with Terraform and ArgoCD; monitoring Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS environments; and developing incident response, alerting, and reliability practices. The role includes on-call responsibilities and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Design, deploy, and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure for Ping Identity’s mission-critical services. Build and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines, support cloud security and observability, evaluate technologies, participate in planning and on-call rotations, and help improve engineering practices. Collaborate across development and operations teams while sharing expertise and supporting distributed production systems.

Provides technical leadership for site reliability and operational development. Designs automated, repeatable cloud and infrastructure solutions; monitors service objectives and business metrics; improves application resiliency, performance, efficiency, and cost. Builds monitoring, deployment, testing, and vulnerability-response automation while supporting mission-critical production systems. Collaborates with software, security, product, and business teams, conducts technical training and resilience exercises, and promotes sound development, change-management, and operational practices.