Jobs / Optum
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Optum · Schaumburg, IL, United States
Schaumburg, IL, United StatesExp: 7+ yrs91,700-163,700 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, and 401(k) contribution
Location
Schaumburg, IL, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads reliability engineering for cloud-native platforms and production services, improving availability, resilience, and operational excellence. The role spans AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes; SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets; and observability using Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus. It also includes Terraform and CI/CD automation, incident response, root cause analysis, and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits packageIncentive and recognition programsEquity stock purchase401(k) contribution
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 4+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- 3+ years managing production Kubernetes platforms, including EKS, AKS, or GKE.
- 3+ years of Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or equivalent technologies.
- 3+ years of experience with observability and monitoring platforms.
- 3+ years implementing monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
- 3+ years building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- 3+ years of scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Ability to participate in rotating on-call support.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Lead SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
- Design, deploy, and support scalable, resilient cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
- Build and maintain observability solutions, dashboards, alerting, and reliability metrics.
- Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform and related technologies.
- Build self-healing capabilities to reduce operational toil and accelerate incident resolution.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams to improve production readiness, reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Support Kubernetes container platforms and production microservices.
- Implement CI/CD and GitOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Azure DevOps.
- Advance AI-enabled operational capabilities, including anomaly detection and intelligent alerting.
- Mentor engineers in SRE, observability, automation, and cloud-native practices.
Skills
AKSArgo CDAWSAzureAzure DevOpsBashDatadogDynatraceEKSFluxGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGKEGrafanaIAMJenkinsKubernetesOpenTelemetryPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)AWS Solutions ArchitectAzure Solutions Architect ExpertHashiCorp Terraform AssociateEquivalent cloud certifications
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a
Languages
PythonBashPowerShell
Work schedule
Rotating on-call support
Industry
Healthcare
Relocation
No