Top SRE Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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 operations and highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated government environments. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery testing, compliance operationalization, audit readiness, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring. Build automation, secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and compliance tooling across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and cloud platforms. Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment safety, and regulatory sustainment.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll build and manage observability platforms for satellite communications, define SLOs/SLIs, and collaborate on incident response and deployment automation.

Assist with monitoring system performance, uptime, and reliability; support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis; monitor SRE alerts in Slack and report issues; learn cloud platforms; and collaborate with development and DevOps teams.

As a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead the SRE team, advocate best practices, ensure resilience in cloud architecture, and mentor team members.

Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure and networking (multi-account AWS, VPC, IAM). Implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging/metrics/alerting), automation, and reliability guardrails. Provide production support and incident response, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with application teams to co-own system design and continuous improvement, using AI-assisted tools where appropriate.

Lead platform and infrastructure engineering: build full-stack services, design AWS/Terraform infrastructure, manage Kubernetes/Docker, implement CI/CD, improve reliability and security, mentor engineers, and drive compliance for HIPAA and SOC 2.

Lead architecture and implementation of reliability platforms and SRE practices for a production SaaS. Build self-service reliability tooling, drive AIOps automation, advance observability (monitoring, tracing, profiling), lead incident response and postmortems, mentor engineers, and embed production readiness across teams to achieve 99.99% uptime.

Own and improve production infrastructure reliability, deployments, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes environments, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and observability. Investigate incidents, optimize system performance, maintain documentation and runbooks, and support DNS, WAF, CDN, and caching infrastructure. The role requires strong Linux administration, Bash scripting, networking, Git, and containerization skills, with independent ownership and collaboration across development and operations teams.

The Site Reliability Engineer will ensure reliable cloud operations by applying Python for infrastructure automation, managing OpenStack and Kubernetes, and practicing devsecops in a fast-paced environment.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you'll automate tasks, monitor AI workloads, enhance dashboards, support CI/CD processes, and collaborate with engineering teams on complex issues while participating in on-call rotations.

This role involves managing Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will enhance system reliability and efficiency while troubleshooting production issues.

Lead reliability practices across teams: embed early in projects, define SLIs/SLOs, build multi-cloud paved roads with Terraform, run on-call, drive org-wide incident maturity and tooling.

Design, scale, and maintain enterprise observability and alerting across multi-cloud and hybrid systems. Build observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP observability), automate infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible, integrate CI/CD for containerized workloads on Kubernetes/GKE/OpenShift, optimize Linux systems, and implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets).

Build and operate production-grade AI infrastructure using Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance. Develop custom operators and implement automation for efficient operations and monitoring.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable application infrastructure; automate deployments and recovery; implement observability and monitoring; troubleshoot performance bottlenecks; advise development teams on microservice best practices; produce runbooks; participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and ensure security and compliance.

Own reliability and security of CI/CD and production services: define SLI/SLOs, lead incident response and postmortems, build observability (Datadog), operate Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform), harden pipelines with SAST/DAST/SCA and policy-as-code, and coach teams on reliability and operational best practices.

Design, build, and maintain highly available cloud-native systems. Improve reliability through automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, and incident management. Collaborate with developers, security, and product teams to define SLOs, implement self-healing, debug production issues, and ensure secure deployments.

Design and operate large-scale GPU infrastructure for distributed AI training, ensuring reliability, performance, and efficient customer partnerships.

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.

Design, develop, test, and operate scalable infrastructure and services for Akamai Cloud. Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and similar tools), CI/CD, and observability. Automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response and root-cause remediation, and participate in on-call rotations.

Build and operate Nebius's network infrastructure: define SLIs/SLOs, improve site and inter-site reliability, lead incident response and postmortems, develop observability and alerting, automate change workflows, and collaborate with network and platform teams to embed operability.

The role involves managing compute infrastructure for decentralized applications, requiring critical thinking, documentation skills, and experience in Kubernetes and blockchain management.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure, ensure system reliability, automate processes, and collaborate with engineering teams.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain reliable infrastructure for Wikimedia's API services, ensuring performance and availability while driving reliability engineering practices and improving developer experience.