Top Remote Reliability Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead the migration from legacy Azure services to a Kubernetes-based, containerized microservices platform. Design, build, and scale infrastructure, implement observability (monitoring/alerting/logging), drive incident response and SLOs, automate with IaC and CI/CD, optimize cost and networking, mentor teams, and document systems to ensure reliable, scalable healthcare platform operations.

Administer and secure the organization’s GitHub environment, including repositories, permissions, branch protections, security controls, and CI/CD workflows. Build automation with GitHub Actions, APIs, and scripting; monitor reliability against SLOs; troubleshoot incidents; and improve developer experience. Integrate identity providers and security tools, support migrations, maintain documentation, and guide teams on GitHub usage and Copilot adoption. The role requires SRE or DevOps experience, infrastructure-as-code, containers, cloud platforms, and observability tooling.

Owns the FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud environment, ensuring reliability, security, compliance, patching, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, deployments, hardening, audits, incident response, and on-call support. The role requires hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, vulnerability management, automation, and regulated-environment experience, while collaborating with SRE and security teams.

Work as an SRE embedded with product teams to improve reliability by fixing application code (primarily TypeScript), building observability (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alloy), defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response and postmortems, automating toil, and supporting deployments across on‑prem DoD and AWS environments.

Owns production reliability for high-throughput, low-latency systems, including observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, infrastructure as code, progressive delivery, chaos testing, and operational tooling. The role requires hands-on software and infrastructure engineering, production Redis/ElastiCache expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, security awareness, mentoring, and participation in on-call operations.

Own the reliability, performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency of production Aurora MySQL databases on AWS. Responsibilities include observability, alerting, query optimization, replication, backups, disaster recovery, schema migrations, reader topology, cost optimization, runbooks, incident response, and database performance reviews. The role partners with engineering teams, supports HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI, and establishes reliable database operating practices.

Build and operate reliable, observable backend systems across AWS and Python services. Responsibilities include defining SLOs and error budgets, designing monitoring and alerting, managing incident response and 24/7 on-call rotations, conducting postmortems, improving performance and capacity, automating toil reduction, maintaining infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines, and mentoring SRE engineers. The role also involves consulting with client teams, documenting operational practices, and supporting AI workloads.

Lead reliability engineering for Replit’s large-scale infrastructure by designing observability, defining SLOs and SLIs, leading incident response, automating operations, optimizing Kubernetes and GCP deployments, debugging distributed systems, and mentoring engineers. Build internal tools and integrations in Python or Go, maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, improve system performance and resilience, and establish reliability, security, and operational best practices across the engineering organization.

Design and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure for Replit’s global platform. Responsibilities include building observability and alerting systems, automating infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, managing CI/CD pipelines, defining SLOs and SLIs, leading incident response and postmortems, maintaining runbooks, optimizing performance, and improving capacity, availability, and recovery times.

Develop and operate Arista’s FedRAMP CloudVision SaaS platform at scale. Responsibilities include improving reliability, scalability, observability, autoscaling, disaster recovery, capacity planning, CI/CD, network architecture, cost optimization, and cloud application security. The role develops and manages Kubernetes-native services, distributed databases, and automation using technologies such as GCP, GKE, Go, Python, Ansible, Pulumi, and Bash. Participation in a FedRAMP on-call rotation is required.

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.

Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and infrastructure supporting Akamai’s cloud hypervisor platforms. Improve observability, automate infrastructure processes, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call service restoration. The role requires deep Linux, kernel, virtualization, ARM hardware, large-scale infrastructure, DevOps, and configuration-management expertise.

Architect, build, and support reliable network infrastructure and automation for Akamai’s distributed cloud platform. Develop Bash and Python tooling, establish deployment standards, define SLOs, mentor engineers, and troubleshoot complex network issues. The role requires expertise in large-scale distributed systems, TCP/IP, BGP, Linux networking, configuration management, CI/CD, and open-source networking software, with participation in on-call rotations.

Own reliability, performance, scalability, and operational standards across on-premises, private-cloud, and AWS environments. Build infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling; define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and readiness standards. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery readiness, release coordination, and preventive automation. Mentor engineers, coach teams on operational practices, coordinate on-call coverage, and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements.