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# Site Reliability Engineer in Chicago

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Databases, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Datadog, Grafana, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/site-reliability-engineer-chicago-32119247

## About the Role

* 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
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 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud architecture.
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 * Strong experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
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 * Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
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 * Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or a similar programming .
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 * Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
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 * Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, networking, databases, and cloud architecture.
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 * Experience with observability, production troubleshooting, and incident response.
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 * Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.
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 * Ability to own technical initiatives and work effectively across engineering teams.
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 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
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 * Experience with HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or similar compliance frameworks.
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 * Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or similar tools.
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 * Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitOps.
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 * Experience designing highly available or multi-region AWS architectures.
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 * Experience with DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and encryption., * Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling.

## Description

This is not a traditional DevOps or infrastructure-maintenance role. You'll have meaningful ownership over how we build, deploy, monitor, secure, and scale our systems., You'll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, and software engineering, partnering closely with application engineers to make our systems more reliable while helping our teams ship faster.