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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

- **Company:** Rewards, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,000.0 - $192,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Linux System Administration, Unix Shell, Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Hashicorp, Apache Kafka, Teamcity, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** June 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=42ac5349d82415fb

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?, * Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting.

 * Infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools (we use Terraform with Atlantis).
 * AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.).
 * Monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch).
 * Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault or similar tools.
 * Linux system administration and Docker containerization.
 * Proficiency in at least one non-shell programming language for building tooling and automation (we use Go).
 * CI/CD pipeline management and deployment automation (we use GitLab CI and TeamCity).

Additional Skills

 * Familiarity with Kafka and Logstash.
 * Experience with incident response and operational support best practices.
 * Ability to balance ad hoc support requests with project priorities.
 * Strong communication skills to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
 * 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.

## Description

* Support and improve deployment pipelines to production and staging environments, with a focus on reliability, consistency, and reducing toil.
 * Troubleshoot and resolve Kubernetes cluster and application-level issues, Docker containers, and Linux-based environments to support applications and services.
 * Leverage Grafana, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch to monitor, diagnose, and improve system health.
 * Build and improve internal tooling and automation to improve developer experience.
 * Partner with development teams to address infrastructure and deployment needs, both planned and ad hoc.
 * Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Atlantis.
 * Manage secrets and security operations with HashiCorp Vault.
 * Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and incident response.
 * Collaborate across teams to improve system observability, resilience, and automation.
 * Document processes and contribute to knowledge sharing to improve engineering efficiency.


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