Top SRE Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Site Reliability Engineer will operate and improve critical, high-traffic systems across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code, automation, incident response, root-cause analysis, monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery, capacity planning, performance tuning, high availability, cloud security, CI/CD, and multi-cloud networking. The role also involves mentoring, documentation, regular DR testing, and on-call participation.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud environments within FedRAMP boundaries, including multi-account infrastructure, guardrails, logging, security tooling, and Terraform provisioning. Develop automated fleet release, patching, verification, CI/CD, compliance evidence, telemetry, SLO, and alerting systems. Support VM and appliance fleets at scale, participate in on-call, and engineer recurring incident causes away. The role also requires compliance-as-code, continuous monitoring, and test harnesses validating operational state.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure platforms supporting domestic and international workloads. Develop CI/CD, declarative lifecycle management, Kubernetes clusters, monitoring, and automation systems. Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, respond to alerts, minimize downtime, streamline delivery pipelines and database changes, and help guide SRE team direction. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and technology professionals while promoting a high-performance, cross-functional culture.

Operate and maintain highly available, secure, containerized SaaS applications across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include rotating 24x7 on-call coverage, observability, incident and security response, disaster recovery, Terraform infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, cloud integration, performance optimization, and developing AI agents to automate SRE and DevSecOps workflows.

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.

Operate and improve AWS production infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes workloads, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. The role investigates root causes, strengthens application resilience, automates operational tasks, supports database and performance reliability, maintains documentation, and participates in 24/7 on-call rotations. The engineer owns scoped reliability projects and collaborates with product engineering teams on resilient, secure, and compliant systems.

Provides enterprise-level technical leadership for site reliability engineering across production services. Improves reliability, scalability, observability, deployment, automation, incident response, resilience, capacity management, and operational readiness. Establishes SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and technical direction while partnering with software engineering teams. Leads critical incident response, reduces operational toil, and develops reusable engineering practices, tooling, and platforms that improve organizational capability.

Owns the reliability, security, performance, and availability of AWS-hosted healthcare infrastructure. Builds infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, monitoring, observability, backup and disaster recovery capabilities. Leads incident response, optimizes cloud resources, implements security controls, supports customer onboarding and migrations, and ensures compliance with healthcare privacy and software lifecycle requirements. Participates in on-call rotations and provides technical guidance to engineering and support teams.