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Site Reliability Engineer - AWS, GCP- CST or EST ONLY

Addison Group
Chicago, IL Other
POSTED ON 4/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/9/2026
Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: CST OR EST ONLY - Please include your city, state on resume

Salary: Base: $110,000 – $150,000 / Annually

No sponsorship / Must be U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card)

Benefits: Health, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with match, Stock Options, PTO, and additional perks

Overview

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, secure, and operate highly available infrastructure supporting an AI-driven platform serving U.S. customers, including organizations within regulated industries. This role owns U.S.-based platform operations while collaborating with a global engineering organization in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Must have GCP and Snowflake.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, implement, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure primarily on GCP with future multi-cloud expansion
  • Lead Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives using Terraform with strong security and governance practices
  • Build and maintain CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines supporting large-scale engineering and AI workloads
  • Implement observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and similar tools
  • Define SLOs/SLIs, manage error budgets, and lead incident response with blameless postmortems
  • Support compliance requirements within regulated U.S. industries
  • Automate operational workflows using Python, Go, or Bash
  • Collaborate with global teams while owning U.S. platform operations and incidents

What We’re Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering
  • Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
  • Proficiency with Python and scripting languages
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.)
  • Cloud experience (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure a plus)
  • Kubernetes and Docker experience
  • Experience in regulated environments (Aerospace & Defense, Finance, Healthcare preferred)
  • Strong communication skills and security-first mindset

Nice to Have

  • Hyper-growth startup experience
  • AI safety, MLOps, or AI/ML infrastructure security experience

Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.

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